Critics of citizens' initiatives say they have this effect only too often.
They were all too often only the shrill pea in the whistle of their possessions.
The president has called for research into the effects of violent video games, and numerous politicians are proposing various censorship measures, taxes, and so forth in a concerted effort to curtail free speech something government officials are often only too happy to attempt.
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And those few larvae that were lucky enough to live long enough to extend a probing foot too often found only silt.
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Too often, they see their job only as providing a medical solution to a specific complaint.
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The business of distributing Herbalife products is all too often a losing proposition, and only those able to perpetuate recruitment chains have a shot at the rich rewards the company dangles before the gullible.
Too often they seem to be getting only cursory instruction. (One test: They all should know what "breve"--a term Starbucks uses for half-and-half--means.) Add new pastries and sandwiches and ever more varieties of coffees and teas.
In official reports, however, all too often, the issue is mentioned only in passing or is relegated to a footnote -- and the principal U.N. resolution on the subject focuses on female victims of sexual violence almost to the exclusion of male victims.
"Too often, the United States and Russia only communicate on a narrow range of issues or let old habits within our bureaucracy stand in the way of our progress, " Obama said.
Too often, accident investigations blame a failure only on the last step in a complex process, when a more comprehensive understanding of that process could reveal that earlier steps might be equally or even more culpable.
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Too often, entrepreneurs consider themselves crazy busy and only agree to meetings or conversations they believe will directly result in a sale.
But all too often, recounts a naval commander, helicopters arrive only to watch pirates taking their prey back to Somalia.
Select committees can operate only on the basis of political consensus, and their reports are too often brushed aside by government.
Too often, those conversations are about failed companies that lived only for government largesse.
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All too often, though, the wheels of regulation grind in only one direction.
Arguing that choice tends to be available only to those with the means to choose, and as such is too often a cover for privilege, they insist that the state really can get things right, provided it is managed better.
Too often, top draft picks get enormous sums of guaranteed money only to underperform at the professional level.
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Poorer rural motorists for whom a car is often the only means to get to work or to the shops pay far too much.
Too often American troops have cleared out a town, city or neighborhood, only to have been pulled out--and the bad guys have promptly gone back in.
Moreover, the ambiguous role of the state, as not only a regulator but often a shareholder in Asian companies, creates conflicts of interest and gives too much power to politicians.
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Cubans grumble, too, that the monthly ration of staples only lasts 10-15 days, and many items are often unavailable.
Too often it's like playing nine-ball and effortlessly sinking the first seven, only for your opponent to nail the final two.
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Too often, he thinks, his predecessors courted popularity with loose monetary and fiscal policies, only to be forced into abrupt reversals when inflation shot up and financial markets expressed disapproval.
Do too much, as most overzealous new trainers try, and you not only prevent these changes from happening but often become discouraged and wind up giving up on a fitness program long before it ever had a chance of working!
Making projects is not only technology, of course, and often involves traditional DIY disciplines like arts and crafts, woodworking and metalworking, too.
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