Sentences with phrase «tired nostrum»
jeremy, the amount of skeptics» funding from oil companies is a tired nostrum; the big money is to be made from the trillions to be siphoned from cap and trade offsets, carbon taxes to be collected, academic «research» grants to co2 warriors, etc. not to mention al gore's recently closed (filled!)
https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/ Not exact matches
Will the challenge be taken up, or will we continue to be dished out the tired old nostrums of the permissive society with little to back them up?
After throwing up the standard straw men — «At its core, the reform movement believes that great teachers and improved teaching methods are all that's required to improve student performance, so that's all the reformers focus on,» «reformers act as if a student's home life is irrelevant,» «Dodd [the teacher] does everything a school reformer could hope for» — he rolls out the woefully tired and hopelessly unhelpful nostrum: «What needs to be acknowledged, however, is that school reform won't fix everything.»