Sentences with phrase «using hackneyed»

After all, when candidates are brought in for an interview, do they refer to themselves in the third person, using hackneyed phrases like «proven leader,» or «team player?»

In attempt to discredit the op - ed, these alarmists have resorted to using hackneyed arguments and insults to reaffirm their opposition to what they see as a flawed and misleading op - ed.

It feels very much like a personal remembrance using the hackneyed formula as a clothesline.»

When compiling your profile, it pays to use your own terminology, and say exactly what you mean instead of using hackneyed phrases that have been done to death.

Many fear that we are on a slippery slope, to use the hackneyed expression.

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The regulations would impose penalties on ride services using technology that is not registered with the city's hackney division, which oversees taxi services, starting with $ 100 fines.

I am not enamored of the now unfortunately hackneyed phrase «speak truth to power» (yes, I know I used it above), but it has its place here.

Mother's «Life is big» is not a hackneyed use of the word «big.»

Every hackneyed anti-Church saying one can think of is used by the townspeople as a taunt against Fr.

There is no reason to assume that uniformity and sameness are required; the event of God in Jesus Christ is so «many - colored», as used to be said, that staleness is likely only when the preacher himself is stale and the preacher's grasp of the essential proclamation has become tired and hackneyed.

It is a moment that could use a justification, since on its own it is fairly hackneyed.

HI Heidi, I am writing to you from hackney in east london, i run a pop - up restaurant here amongst other things and thought you might want to know that I made the Blackberry chile syrup and used it to top a watermelon cucumber gazpacho... GORGEOUS!!!! XXX have a look at my BBC cookery show online it was called Neneh and Andi dish it up x

There are certain hackneyed terms that are used so often that they seemingly lose all meaning.

The dust has hardly settled on the 7 December election and already a much hackneyed phrase used whenever there has been a shift of political power has started to appear in our political discourse — «empty coffers».

The dust has hardly settled on the 7 December election and already a much - hackneyed phrase used whenever there has been a shift of political power has started to appear in our political discourse — «empty coffers».

As long as he can use some of the money clawed back from millionaires in Hampstead to support claimants in Hackney — slowing the rate at which their benefits are withdrawn in order to encourage them back into work — he's not particularly worried about the wider consequences for the Government.

To help with understanding the crystal structure, Steve Hackney, professor of materials science at Michigan Tech, was able to provide crucial high - resolution images and diffraction patterns using transmission electron microscopy on ultrathin samples prepared with a diamond knife by Owen Mills, director of Michigan Tech's Applied Chemical & Morphological Analysis Laboratory.

Another typical mistake is the «hackneyed pitfall» - using clich ~ s in your profile.

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I received the impression that Pearl Harbor was made in complete ignorance of the last 100 years of film history, using incredibly hackneyed and old - fashioned devices that might have come from D.W. Griffith himself.

Filmmaker Gary Ross has infused The Hunger Games with a low - rent, curiously uncinematic feel that immediately alienates the viewer, with the hands - off atmosphere perpetuated by the director's continuing use of such hackneyed devices as shaky camerawork and extreme closeups.

The most hackneyed of these has been enhanced student self - esteem, which sometimes is used as a reason for not failing students who deserve to fail.

Using one case study from sports (the Vancouver Giants hockey team) and one from education (Hackney Schools Borough in London, England), the authors illustrate how the six components of uplifting leadership combine the hard and soft skills that are often set against each other in traditional leadership practice: counterintuitive thinking combined with disciplined application; dreaming with determination; collaboration with competition; metrics with meaning; pushing and pulling people into change; and long - term sustainability with short - term success.

The railway arches near Hackney Central Station look set to act as a useful art resource until more commercial developments take over, and the biennial Sluice fair will use four of them at the end of September.

Bulk Market in Hackney is a destination for zero wasters, locavores, and nostalgic seniors who love using refillable jars.

What does essay writer Hackney say could be used to exclude Dr Idso from global warming lawsuits?

Just as Tom Dixon drew inspiration from Greenwich, the Warehaus is apparently «constructed from materials traditionally used and found in Hackney».

He says comparing television energy use to refrigerator energy use is «hackneyed,» adding, «when was the last time the family gathered around the refrigerator to be entertained.»

To create robust digital solutions that will enable Hackney Law Centre to deliver legal services in a more efficient way and be used as a pilot to be used by other law centres across the UK.

Following the event Hackney Law Centre's are inviting selected groups to test their products on potential clients and take their solution further with Hackney Law Centre, with the aim of being used as a pilot by other law centers in the UK and Julie Bishop, Director of Law Centres Network spoke at the closing event on Saturday evening.

You can convey my equal displeasure at the hackneyed and stilted language in this article, dead metaphors and the gratuitous use of junk science.

Templates are easy to spot because many use outdated formats, styles and «hackneyed and clichéd phrases that convey personal attributes without proving impact,» Safani said.

The family above cleverly make the room appear even larger by sticking to a monochrome palette — and while the Hackney Station sign reminds of the city, by using railway sleepers as stairs, the owners merge the urban and rural together.