Sentence examples for a familiar exercise of from inspiring English sources

The document left the ECB with a familiar exercise of damage limitation, having been greeted with derision on social media.

For many of them, the annual hearing was a familiar exercise, a wintertime rite marked by its tediousness more than anything else.

The result was a familiar exercise in art and craft, done with a rosy sweetness.

So she has, for better or worse, become accustomed to a familiar exercise.

For House Republicans, repealing "Obamacare" has become a familiar exercise.

The story, otherwise, is a familiar exercise in odd-couple brotherhood.

IT WAS a wearyingly familiar exercise.

Although many, including the superintendent of schools, found it disturbing, the assignment is just a provocative version of the familiar exercise in which you are asked to write an application for a job you're not really interested in or a letter to a congressman in support of a position you don't hold.

In a familiar quadrennial exercise, the staunchly Republican Manchester Union Leader fiercely attacks G.O.P. candidates suspected of being insufficiently right-wing.

It is the familiar comparative exercise of getting the most bang for your buck.

"Now that I'm older, maybe I would have ran out," she said, engaging in a familiar kind of "what if" mental exercise.