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Mullen repeated the timeworn invocation that Beijing and Washington should work together on "broader, and common, goals" on the global stage, after asserting that China was now a world power.

The Trust Gap in U.S.-China Relations Michael Auslin 2011

Running with the children of the village through meadow grass, among the mounds and hillocks, chasing along the timeworn runs of fox and rabbit through the ruins.

GRAVE CONCERNS • by Oscar Windsor-Smith 2009

Of course, we have our petty absurdities – Sir Dave Richards's position as both FA board member and Premier League chairman is a timeworn example – but, by crikey, don't they lack the scale and imagination of this?

Who next for Sepp Blatter's Fifa brains trust – Cheryl Cole? | Marina Hyde 2011

Jeff Parker has established himself as a smart writer of a variety of snappy, satisfying genre comics, even finding fresh approaches to timeworn franchise characters.

15 « October « 2009 « The Manga Curmudgeon 2009

Because sometimes, it seems to me as if all of the big moments in my life can be traced back to the gorgeous, timeworn stories of opera.

Skipping a Beat Sarah Pekkanen 2011

Even those dramas founded on more mainstream set-ups – new cop series Chicago Code and The Closer, for example, starring, respectively, Jennifer Beals (47) and Kyra Sedgwick (45) – appear to have jettisoned the timeworn notion of the gutsy dame forced to overcome prejudice in a traditionally male environment.

With The Big C, Nurse Jackie and Weeds, US TV has given us women who are more than just Mistresses 2011

Somewhere around this point, we usually get sucked into another timeworn argument which states that trans women are reinforcing gender stereotypes by transitioning to a female binary spectrum identity.

Yet another trans 101, in which Helen tells cis people What’s What 2009

Somewhere around this point, we usually get sucked into another timeworn argument which states that trans women are reinforcing gender stereotypes by transitioning to a female binary spectrum identity.

Yet another trans 101, in which Helen tells cis people What’s What 2009

It is a fresh, visually stunning assessment of a current design trend effectively erasing the timeworn divide between creators and consumers.

Dorothy Spears: TechnoCRAFT at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Dorothy Spears 2010

Jeff Parker has established himself as a smart writer of a variety of snappy, satisfying genre comics, even finding fresh approaches to timeworn franchise characters.

From the stack: Underground 2009