(1) Maybe it's left him knackered, but when we talk in the backroom of an ad hoc campaign office in the small agricultural town of Thrapston, he answers most questions using standard-issue candidate's boilerplate.
(2) He answered a series of boilerplate queries from the thin media corps at ringside, delivering a blend of straight talk and curious bon mots.
(3) There was also criticism of the media who gave rolling coverage to Trump’s rally in Florida on Saturday, which Oliver called “pointless” and filled with “boilerplate Trump: the media is fake, Chicago is a nightmare, I’m the greatest.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Last week, Oliver called Trump a “ pathological liar ” in a scalding episode which marked the start of the show’s fourth season.
(4) Witness the impact of an otherwise boilerplate broadcast by the Prince of Wales last December that made headlines : “Prince Charles warns of return to the ‘dark days of the 1930s’ in Thought for the Day message.” Or consider the reflex response to reports that Donald Trump was to maintain his own private security force even once he had reached the White House.
(5) Rudd talks cheerfully but steadily, as if he's neither reciting boilerplate nor overly impressed by his career.
(6) For once, the grand parliamentary boilerplate appeared apt.
(7) During part of the talks open to media, Xi and Lew spoke in boilerplate diplomatic language about drawing on shared strengths to bolster bilateral ties.
(8) He lied about opposing the Iraq war , criticized Obama’s 2011 withdrawal and repeated his now-boilerplate advocacy of stealing Iraq’s oil – a measure that he evidently believes would require a minimal force presence, despite the certainty that the well-armed locals might have a problem with their principal source of wealth being plundered by a foreign power.
(9) The public boilerplate, as it so often does, hides a difficult and often acrimonious relationship.
(10) Every presidential aspirant issues that boilerplate – as it elides an explanation of what the candidate thinks is worth fighting for – but Clinton’s long public record, which she uses as a selling point against Trump, gives reason to doubt it.
(11) Indeed, in the boilerplate language of financial prospectuses, past results are no guarantee of future results; and there are already investment models showing that non-FFC funds deliver better proceeds.
(12) Instead, for months, we’ve heard almost nothing from the administration beyond a couple boilerplate, lukewarm expressions of “concern” as the death toll has mounted over a year and a half.
(13) There was lots of New Labour boilerplate about "the values of the mainstream majority", but I don't think Brown manage to meld this into a vision of the future that will resonate with the public.
(14) And, too, because no matter how much practice you have at blathering and how much boilerplate you can regurgitate, unscripted moments can be as rough on cable heads as on politicians.
(15) A 50-minute meeting might have produced little of substance – Modi reiterated India's longstanding complaints about terrorists launched from Pakistani soil to wreak havoc on its interests and citizens, Sharif uttered platitudes about an "historic opportunity" – but even the banality of the diplomatic boilerplate could not hide an unexpected sense of optimism.
(16) It introduces the biography of the candidate, striking the usual boilerplate themes of a middle class yet aspirational childhood, a love of baseball and a close knit neighbourhood where Weiner's parents worked hard and raised their kids.
(17) After three weeks of campaigning, she appears to have passed the point where she can answer questions with much more than awkward boilerplate, but I have to ask: are Diane James and the Farage army a worry?
(18) A lawyer he consulted provided him with a boilerplate employee handbook, which didn’t have much to say about diversity, and told him that he could write a more extensive handbook when the company was bigger.
(19) For instance, a boilerplate attack on the Home Secretary ended with a passage that could have come from a Daily Express leader: "Michael Howard said he was building six tough new prisons.
Routine
Definition:
(n.) A round of business, amusement, or pleasure, daily or frequently pursued; especially, a course of business or offical duties regularly or frequently returning.
(n.) Any regular course of action or procedure rigidly adhered to by the mere force of habit.
Example Sentences:
(1) If the method was taken into routine use in a diagnostic laboratory, the persistence of reverse passive haemagglutination reactions would enable grouping results to be checked for quality control purposes.
(2) The inquiry found the law enforcement agencies routinely fail to record the professions of those whose communications data records they access under Ripa.
(3) All of the nude mice developed paraplegia with or without incontinence at 2 weeks and routinely died of inanition 3 weeks postimplantation.
(4) The present retrospective study reports the results of a survey conducted on 130 patients given elective abdominal and urinary surgery together with the cultivation of routine intraperitoneal drainage material.
(5) There are widespread examples across the US of the police routinely neglecting crimes of sexual violence and refusing to believe victims.
(6) This implementation reduced a formidable task to a relatively routine run.
(7) These unusual fractures are not easily detected on the routine three-view "hand-series."
(8) The study included fifty children, aged six to fourteen years, selected from patients seeking routine dental care at Children's Hospital National Medical Center.
(9) A newborn presenting with persistent umbilical stump bleeding should be screened for factor XIII deficiency when routine coagulation tests prove normal.
(10) It was found to be convenient for routine laboratory use and increased the yield of positive plate cultures in specimens without antibiotics from 53 to 75% (P less than 0.01) and in specimens containing antibiotics from 24 to 38% (P less than 0.05).
(11) For routine use, 50 mul of 12% BTV SRBC, 0.1 ml of a spleen cell suspension, and 0.5 ml of 0.5% agarose in a balanced salt solution were mixed and plated on a microscope slide precoated with 0.1% aqueous agarose.
(12) The effect of exclusion versus inclusion of the fiducial timing point optimizing routine in the signal averaging program was examined in 21 patients.
(13) Since this test is easily performed and hardly stresses the patient, it should routinely be the initial one for the diagnosis of renal osteopathy.
(14) This study suggests that the BD VACUTAINER agar slant is an acceptable alternative to the Septi-Chek system for routine blood cultures.
(15) The possibility of unequivocally detecting syncytium-inducing strains after only a few days of coculture will make this detection routine and rapid.
(16) In a retrospective study of 610 patients the role of routine gastroscopy prior to cholecystectomy was investigated.
(17) There were soon tales of claimants dying after having had money withdrawn, but the real administrative problem was the explosion of appeals, which very often succeeded because many medical problems were being routinely ignored at the earlier stage.
(18) These results indicate that the routine use of a defunctioning colostomy at anterior resection should now be questioned.
(19) During a single reversal trial of two 2-wk experimental periods, teats of all glands of 12 Holstein cows were subjected to a milking routine conducive to large vacuum fluctuations and flooded teat cups.
(20) It is of special interest because it presented as a periapical pathosis associated with a nonvital tooth and emphasizes the value of routine histopathologic examination of tissue.