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The White House strategy on the sequester was built around a familiar miscalculation about Republicans.

The set is built around a familiar Conti stunt that turns her audience into her dummies: strapping them into half-masks, she manipulates their mouths at arm's length, so they look as if they're talking.

The tale of a foiled railroad robbery is built around a familiar set of stock characters — an aging father, a stalwart lover, and a plucky young heroine, the Morse-code operator of the title, who rises to the occasion and saves the day — but Griffith both endows them with psychological nuance and elevates them to archetypes.

The tale of a foiled railroad robbery is built around a familiar set of stock characters an aging father, a stalwart lover, and a plucky young heroine, the Morse-code operator of the title, who rises to the occasion and saves the day but Griffith both endows them with psychological nuance and elevates them to archetypes.

The game plays to the franchise's strengths, built around a familiar sidescrolling format that maintains a lot of Super Mario Bros.'s familiar elements, from goombas and question-mark boxes to Bowser castles and ghosts, applying them to a slightly tweaked formula designed to play with a single hand in portrait mode, so users can play while hanging onto a subway strap.

Sun Rivers is built around a championship course.

They're built around a fundamentally sound, control-freak quarterback.

Finally, multilateral efforts are built around a fiction.

Hans was Heiri is built around a rotating house.

This year's Artscape will be built around a water theme.

He thought the episode was "built around a gripping premise".