It is hard to tell if Mr. Bloomberg is earnest in his complaints, as his aides say, or if he is playing out a more intricate strategy, like laying the groundwork so that any endorsement he makes will have more of an impact.
As unhappy commuters relayed complaints to the earnest members of the council, I savored the chance to explore this vintage car, where passengers once sat in easy chairs or at tables in a dining area set off by glass walls.
Den Hollander's latest litigative quest (there have been many: defamation suits, a nuisance complaint against neighbors) began in earnest about seven years ago.
Their comment sections, on YouTube and elsewhere, are filled with earnest suggestions for further reading and mock complaints that Green has made them care about a distant war that they'd been ignoring.
The legal maneuvering in the N.B.A.'s labor battle began in earnest Tuesday, when the players union filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board, accusing league officials of failing to negotiate in good faith.
Advocates believe that since 1995, when downsizing of the state Health Department began in earnest, field staff available to inspect and investigate complaints and incidents in hospitals have been allowed to fall to dangerously low levels.
More than six years ago, Mr. Beach decided to begin studying in earnest a much-debated issue, and a subject of ritual complaint among technology executives — the apparently lagging skills of the American workforce.
Sustained opposition complaints of fraud in the tabulation of votes began in earnest only today, though, after the observer groups had begun to close down operations here.
The complaint against Mr. Bout and Mr. Smulian suggests that the investigation began in earnest in November 2007 and centered on an unidentified paid informer described in the complaint only as "CS-1," for confidential source No. 1, who had known Mr. Bout since the mid-1990s and knew he was an arms dealer.
As in the Walmart worker's case, NLRB counsel found that the bartender's complaint fell short of concerted activity since the posting didn't involve an earnest discussion about working conditions with any of his co-workers.
