Sentences with phrase «familiar litany»

The pro-AB 32 speaker gave the familiar litany of issues, highly distorted some facts, and with blatant falsehoods thrown in.

After smearing the CBC as if it were a government propaganda arm, the duo moved on to a depressingly familiar litany of contrarian talking points:

Kingsnorth, who curiously shares his name with the site of the site of recent Climate Camp protests, recites a familiar litany — we are going to hell in a fossil - fuel - and - capitalism - powered handcart, and the human race is just to stupid to notice or care, and it will be a good thing when billions of us are dead, because those who remain will have learned a lesson.

A wicked spring nor» easter whipped into the New York area with a too - familiar litany of horrors: A Long Island woman killed in a weather - related car wreck, hundreds of canceled flights and another mass transit mess.

The now - familiar litany begins again, «Grandfather, have pity on us top - legged creatures.»

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All of this just adds to a litany of office - related ills we are already familiar with through academic and anecdotal evidence, from stiff necks to carpal tunnel syndrome to eye strain.

The litany is familiar: More than one million pregnancies are extinguished each year in the United States, thousands late - term.

Long into the night I listened to their litany of complaints against AQAP, linked to the new restrictions afflicting their familiar daily routines.

Mahoney ran down a litany of speeches, quotes, editorials and newspaper articles from the last 23 years that sounded eerily familiar to the soundbites coming out of today's Consensus CNY forums.

Ask a random person on the street to name his or her five favorite scientists, chances are you would hear a litany of familiar names — perhaps Marie Curie, Albert Einstein or Louis Pasteur — all of them instrumental in casting the world in which we live.

Meanwhile, speaking with AOL, Emily VanCamp revealed she doesn't think Sharon Carter will be among the almost - endless litany of familiar faces appearing in either Avengers 4 or Infinity War.

Her litany of complaints about the academic results of Klein's «radical restructuring» is somewhat familiar — «inflating» test results and «taking shortcuts» to boost graduation — except for the charge that «the recalibration of the state scores revealed that the achievement gap among children of different races in New York City was virtually unchanged between 2002 and 2010, and the proportion of city students meeting state standards dropped dramatically, almost to the same point as in 2002.»

I'm frustrated by how often efforts to challenge familiar nostrums are casually dismissed with a litany of reflexive attacks — «this is an attack on schooling,» «this is only about urban schools,» «this is all part of a privatization conspiracy» — without regard to substance or specifics.

The litany of justifications is eerily familiar: the beaches, the gentle tropical breezes, the endless sun, all were finally opened up to the teeming masses of the northeastern cities by the advent of the automobile.

One Billion Birds Butler's litany of complaints against feral cats is all too familiar: wildlife impacts (birds, in particular), public health threats, the «failures» of TNR, the powerful feral cat lobby, and the emotional / irrational nature of feral cat advocates (i.e., the classic «crazy cat lady» label).

Last week, New York was home to a litany of art - world galas in pursuit of funding for institutions — except for one: the Amref Health Africa ArtBall.Now in its second year, the event featured most of the familiar benefit trappings — from finely dressed attendees to... Read More