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Examples of litany


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Let us waste no time in sterile litanies and nauseating mimicry.
The bishop chants litanies and says five more orations.
Such litanies readily create impressive-looking documents of what is in the music, but only rarely provide any meaningful insight into why.
Here we have fasting, alms-giving, prayers, and a special three-day programme of litanies, with priests walking barefoot to church - all in support of a military emergency.
Furthermore, the litanies of" respectable fears" and" moral panics" are only one of the discourses about" law and order" found in popular, political, or academic discussion over the last century.
The very categories that appear in the litany of difference are problematic.
Empedocles presents a litany of the illusions that plague society, including the simile of the injured child.
The idea is to hear a litany of names being remembered and honored and sent onward as volunteers flow steadily to and from the fireplaces.
One year missing from this litany of successful street protest is 1981.
The land tenure regime is also blamed for a litany of other ills.
The painting reminds us that life is a litany of losses.
With his 'neither-nor' litany, he seems to set himself apart from his colleagues, implying that their struggles are not his.
Witnesses testified to the owner's litany of malpractices and liability for the numerous deaths from inhalation of toxic smoke.
The constant litany of theorists appears like a fundamentalist creed invoked by a repentant apostate rather than a description of the author's analytical toolbox.
The disadvantages, of course, we are well familiar with, and the usual litany of complaints about machineirreproducible complexities of sound applies.
People could produce litanies about the amount of woodland, marshland, wetland and heathland that has been lost.
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With no federal law, fast days became pilgrimages, processions, litanies and fasts.
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The participants, mainly women, sang songs and litanies and carried candles or torches in their hands.
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The "akolouth" (fixed portion of the service) is composed primarily of psalms and litanies.
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The litany of difference is meant to honor important differences, but it may in fact render invisible differences that are just as important.
He wrote masses, litanies, offertories, antiphons, psalms and sacred cantatas.
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He will take this portion in his right hand when leading litanies or drawing attention to a particular liturgical action.
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Demonic clerics perform twisted experiments and recite ghastly litanies.
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After 1758 he composed a good deal of church music, including seven masses and several litanies.
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Doubtless, like all prayers at that time, they were composed of psalms, canticles, hymns, and litanies.
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The sum of this litany of deception, maleficence and a lack of beneficence, is clearly discrimination against a substantial group within society.
The editorial staff could have papered-over a litany of problems if they had inserted a well-written overview essay at the beginning of the set.
If we reject the notion of essence, then the identification of affinity groups and the use of the litany of differences become problematic.
Antiphons and litanies are provided for the seasons of the church year.
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The texts themselves she believed to be litanies for priest-scribes, kept apart in special houses and strictly "tapu," that recorded the island's history and mythology.
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Among his works are holy masses, offertories, duets, madrigals, litanies, motets and magnificat.
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Before going further, it may be well to say a few words on the composition of the litanies we have been considering.
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In both these cases the litanies are stated to have been long in use.
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His sacred music is for four and eight voices, and includes masses, motets, hymns, responds, litanies, suffragia, and other "a cappella" vocal music.
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They consist chiefly of church music, 17 masses, besides litanies, motets, offertories, etc., being among the number.
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Surviving compositions include four masses, six motets, and three litanies for choir.
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At the end, however, are a few short petitions such as those found in the litanies of the saints.
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No 9th century text has ever been discovered containing these words, although numerous medieval litanies and prayers contain general formulas for deliverance against unnamed enemies.
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There is by now a standard litany of responses to this problem.
Consequently, some chapters read like a litany of acronyms.
More recent books called for a litany of the saints.
He is listed in two 11th-century litanies.
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In times of calamity litanies were held, in which the people walked in robes of penitence, fasting, barefooted, and, in later times, frequently dressed in black ("litaniae nigrae").
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Thus, in reviewing a litany of potential extraterrestrial examples, invoking energy sources as diverse as magnetism, gravity, pressure and radioactivity, the repeated refrain is one of doubt and scepticism.
He could ordain lectors; at concelebrations where no bishop is present he presided and said the ekphonesis (- exclamations chanted aloud at the end of prayers and litanies).
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The prosecuting attorney begins her cross-examination with a litany of relatively factual yes 0 no questions about the defendant's height, weight, and athletic prowess, culminating in two general formulations.
He caused solemn litanies to be said daily in the chief centers of population, by rotation, and on the first day of each month in the larger towns and monasteries.
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Lengthy and involved litanies of this type do not seem to have won popularity, though it is possible to find other examples of a like kind.
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The litany of problems is serious.
Absolutely typical of the pastoral idiom here are the stylised nature setting, the naive tone, the litany of nature's bounty, and the throng of happy lovers.
Although this report does not overlook the serious problems and violations that continue to shake the world, it is not a litany of horrors either.
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All we got was a litany of excuses, half-baked ideas, untruths and squalid interventions about the industry itself.
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There is a fashionable environmental litany in our day which is easy to make the most of.
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There was quite a litany of problems, including anti-trade union legislation and the non-existence of proper trade union legislation.
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She produced a traditional litany against timetable motions, with only the slightest reference to this motion.
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Again, all we heard from him was a litany of despair, and of talking down this country, its economy and its workers.
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There is a litany of miserable statistics and the figures represent a graveyard for families and the community.
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Sadly, we are now familiar with that litany of facts and figures which charts the decline and disaster.
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We have heard a litany of problems, and all the national parks have many common problems.
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There is a litany of pointed and specific questions on particular types of steel by origin of manufacture.
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Local councils are responding with local communities and the private sector with initiatives to tackle the litany of challenges from many of my noble friends.
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I had the local authorities coming in with a litany of complaints about the bus companies.
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We have had a wide-ranging debate and heard a litany of problems that are causing real worry and difficulty for communities throughout the country.
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The litany of the seemingly wealthy who have been able to obtain legal aid is too long.
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I could fill the next half an hour with a litany of similar sad stories.
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There is an interesting omission in the litany that is advanced to defend that proposal.
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I can only say, having listened to his litany, that we dream of having problems like that in the east end.
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I recall that when his colleagues gave a litany of their interests in the trade, he would declare but a general interest.
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All he has received has been a litany of incredible excuses.
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What assurances can we have that his next report will be a pleasure to read, rather than a litany of embarrassing failures?
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We see from that long litany of examples what a complicated tax administrative system faces the ordinary pensioner.
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As we watched the television, a litany of names was scrolling across the bottom of the screen.
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There is insufficient time to examine the litany of failures.
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I have listened to that litany of failure.
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I make no apology for putting over that litany.
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They are now showing, yet again, that to that litany they are prepared to add the pollution of our food supplies.
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There is a whole litany of operations unbecoming to a civil servant.
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However, there has since been a litany of disastrous drugs and pesticides which have been withdrawn.
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There is a seemingly endless litany of scandals.
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We could all provide a litany of figures if we wanted to.
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In view of that litany of the health effects of passive smoking on the young, we really must take more vigorous action on their behalf.
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To my way of thinking, it was little more than a litany of commonly encountered tenants' complaints.
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The litany is also one of a budget consistently below the ceilings of the multiannual financial framework.
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There is a long litany of incidents and disputes.
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We know of a long, sad litany of casualties who have died because of this macho fashion.
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The whole story has been a litany of failure.
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I said that we were waiting for a litany of complaints and woes.
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He went on to give a litany of hatred about local government and its responsibilities.
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I am sick and tired of hearing a litany of disaster.
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When recording the litany of failures, it is important to remember that there have been some incredible successes.
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Is it yet another broken promise to add to a litany of broken promises?
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He could not rise above his normal litany of sanctimonious humbug, tedentious statistics and scurrilous scares.
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His speech was a litany of "we will not accept"and"we will not agree".
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I find the litany of unmitigated despair very discouraging.
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He read out a great litany of what he believed were social security changes that had assisted people with fuel charges.
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The final point in the litany involves married and cohabiting couples.
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I hope that my colleague will be kind enough to continue with that litany of disasters.
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Every aspect of this deeply gloomy litany makes one thing clear.
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