Today, if you read, say, foreign policy journals or, in a farcical form, listen to the Republican debates, they're asking, "How do we prevent further losses?" On the other hand, the capacity to preserve control has sharply declined.
I am on good form, listening to a tasteful playlist that Spotify has constructed for me by scraping my playlists for musical themes.
Irina Vashchenko's rich mezzo tones enliven Gertrude's scene with Hamlet, which Polonius (Roman Ulybin, in aptly pompous form) listens in on.
I know form listening to one of your leaders, Lenny Henry, that there really isn't enough diversity on your television channel.
For the way he does the same to entire forms, listen to the Piano Quintet, a fully fledged sonata form movement that makes its recapitulation a musical black hole of time and tonality, sucking up the material you've been listening to for the last quarter of an hour into a couple of frantic but inevitable-sounding minutes.
Culverhouse looked at disability forms, listened to stories, offered counsel and expressed regret.
Our lives are spent grappling with bureaucracy: filling in online forms; listening to recorded voices claiming that "your call is important to us"; lying to Apple about having read 56-page iTunes Terms of Service agreements; cursing the stupidity of HR departments, government agencies or university subcommittees.
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"The Radio 2 head of compliance [Barber] said he recognised that as a result of the situation described above no one in Radio 2 would read the compliance form or listen to the programme before it went to air," it added.
In Europe, you need to make an appointment with a bank's local branch, bring documents, fill a lot of forms and listen to a customer representative trying to upsell you.
I will meet with you in your homes and where you work, and through technology online in many forms, and listen to your ideas, your hopes and dreams and share with you my vision for America.
