Sentence examples for litany from the from inspiring English sources

They sounded a litany from the founders to Frederick Douglass, from slavery to space flight.

The litany from the left is now familiar: Mr. Obama was too modest in his stimulus package, too afraid to fight for a government-sponsored option in his health plan, too deferential to Wall Street in his financial reforms, too weak to stand up to the generals on Afghanistan.

Power's litany from the last century alone makes highly uncomfortable reading for the world conscience: beyond the tens of millions dead in the Holocaust and those other, more familiar examples, she cites the Hausa slaughter of the Ibo in Nigeria in 1968 (a million dead), West Pakistan's culling of East Pakistan Bengalis in 1971 (up to two million), Tutsi versus Hutu in 1972 (150,000).

He derived the text of the litany from two medieval Sarum rite litanies and a German Litany by Martin Luther.

The punishment is thought to be the reason for an infamous line in the 1622 poem the Beggar's Litany: "From Hell, Hull and Halifax, Good Lord deliver us".

I could recite the entire Brooklyn litany from egg creams to mickeys, from P.S. 99 to Erasmus High.

For the ritual sequence, sepulchral voices growl a litany as if from the pagan past.

Earlier, Mr. Milosevic presented his own litany of horror from the fighting in Kosovo.

When asked a question, he closed his eyes and recited a litany of evidence from the Koran and the Sunnah.

She reels off a litany that proceeds from the plausible ("Father Andy Riley") via the ludicrous ("Father Peewee Stairmaster") before somehow reaching the right answer ("Father Todd Unctious").

His behaviour should be included in that poor form; a litany of swearing from the 14-time major winner was once again clearly audible on television.