Some is creepily well targeted: as your correspondent walked into a studio in Raleigh to watch Thom Tillis, the Republican challenger, on October 21st, his phone started pushing adverts enumerating the many ways in which Mr Tillis has demonstrated his perfidy.North Carolina has drawn a lot of attention from national groups because the race is close.
Reports enumerating the economic benefits of state support for clean technology, in the form of industries fostered and jobs created, abound (although few of them examine the potential costs of such schemes, in the form of increased government debt and misallocated capital).
The third trend is the emergence of open-source code, something embraced even by Microsoft, which is often seen by its many critics as the would-be nemesis of the open-source movement.The five-step programThere are five steps involved in creating a piece of software: enumerating the requirements; designing the program; actually writing the code; testing it; and then deploying it.
He speaks in full paragraphs, often enumerating his points, and his tone is resolutely measured.
"Religion has at one time or another been thought to fill four main roles in human life: explanation, exhortation, consolation and inspiration," writes Mr Dawkins, enumerating the four targets of his logical firepower.He shows that religion does not provide a satisfactory explanation for anything.
In 1953-54, mutual-defence pacts with South Korea and Taiwan were added, and the ground rules for a Pax Americana in the Pacific were largely complete.Where to begin enumerating how the world has changed?
Mr Shlaim also argues that the Jordanian monarch should have avoided getting sucked into the war of 1967 against Israel.Nor does he shrink from enumerating the king's other faults.
So starts Lonely Planet's guidebook to the kingdom before enumerating some of its charms: deserted Red Sea beaches, the pre-Islamic monument of Madain Saleh, verdant mountains and the empty quarter with its endless sand dunes.
Though warts-and-all, it does not linger or moralise over the blemishes; laudatory, it does not veer towards panegyric, even as it impresses with Mr Leader's forensic readings.Sometimes, however, by enumerating Bellow's many "mimetic pleasures", Mr Leader unwittingly slows down his narrative.
In 1991 he released Thanksgiving Prayer, a short film that featured Burroughs enumerating the ills of contemporary American society in his signature raspy growl.
By enumerating and describing all the known types used by each printer, Proctor's work cast light on the means by which printing technology was adopted throughout Europe.
