well-tried

Gabriel Josipovici has recently entered the limelight thanks to the well-tried technique of making a very small passing remark about Martin Amis et al in a book about modernism and then having it blown up out of all proportion.

Only Joking by Gabriel Josipovici – review Nicholas Lezard 2010

Second, Nuñez neglects a well-tried system of rules, checks and balances that protects against alleged or realized conflicts.

Jessica Corry: Elected Officials Have Mortgages, Too Jessica Corry 2011

We wish to return to the simple, well-tried system practised up to 2008 which permitted the retention, study, curation and display of excavated remains as appropriate.

Letters: Reburial requirement impedes archaeology 2011

Second, Nuñez neglects a well-tried system of rules, checks and balances that protects against alleged or realized conflicts.

Jessica Corry: Elected Officials Have Mortgages, Too Jessica Corry 2011

Old, well-tried planning solutions are often still the best: streets with sidewalks, street trees, individual buildings, a close mixture of different uses such as apartments above shops, and office buildings next to condominiums.

Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010

Hume went on to be the daring cine - matographer on three more Bonds, all starring Moore and directed by John Glen: For Your Eyes Only (1981), Octopussy (1983) and A View to a Kill (1985), each offering the well-tried formula of gals, guns, villains and glossy locations.

Alan Hume obituary 2010

Old, well-tried planning solutions are often still the best: streets with sidewalks, street trees, individual buildings, a close mixture of different uses such as apartments above shops, and office buildings next to condominiums.

Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010

Old, well-tried planning solutions are often still the best: streets with sidewalks, street trees, individual buildings, a close mixture of different uses such as apartments above shops, and office buildings next to condominiums.

Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010

The heart of the program must be a national system of payment for medical care based on well-tried insurance principles.

Liberty and Tyranny Mark R. Levin 2009

I consider this the king of the heap, and the others to be well-tried advisers.

Pragmatic Writing Books for Many Occasions | Spontaneous ∂erivation 2009