The often-repeated story is that they "gave them up.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade by Ann Fessler] Reference

‡ By extension, a shibboleth is an often-repeated slogan.    From Wordnik.com.  [shibboleth] Reference

I'm giving up my long-standing, often-repeated resolution to "Entertain more.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Gretchen Rubin: Balanced Life -- A Secret to Happiness: Don't Try to Keep Your Resolution] Reference

They have never forgotten, and this has become one of our often-repeated family stories.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ask Amy] Reference

Great Regulars: The journey in "The Autumn Outings" is a lonely, silent, often-repeated one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-12-01] Reference

Notice the often-repeated phrase is “studies show no link” not, “research shows no link.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mushroom Cloud That Caused Autism] Reference

The extreme skepticism over development is based on often-repeated myths rather than actual experience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeffrey Sachs: A Better Strategy for Afghanistan] Reference

That could conflict with Mr. Obama's often-repeated promise not to raise taxes on middle-class families.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proposed Tax Tests Obama on Campaign Vow] Reference

Owen has not ventured to bring forward a single preparation in support of his often-repeated assertions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays] Reference

I very much doubt the often-repeated assertion that our aristocracy are more beautiful than the middle classes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1] Reference

It is difficult to reconcile the Democrats 'position with President Obama's often-repeated commitment to transparency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Won't the Democrats Back a GAO Audit? Waterboard the Fed] Reference

Take a look at Tesco's latest half-year earnings announcement and you can't help but notice one often-repeated: increase.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tesco Profit Jumps 10.3% In H1] Reference

Actually, there is quite a bit once you get past the often-repeated facts about how rich JK is and how many copies have been sold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introducing the ‘Harry Potter Room’ « Reading Copy] Reference

'"The Seasons" gave me my finishing stroke,' was Haydn's often-repeated remark to his friends after the oratorio had left his hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Story-Lives of Great Musicians] Reference

His anti-American views including an often-repeated claim the Sept. 11 attacks weren't carried out by al Qaeda are popular in Pakistan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reports Depict Pakistani Ex-Spy as Taliban Link] Reference

And thus another of the most often-repeated of the pictures in the catacombs is that of the Saviour under the form of the Good Shepherd.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858] Reference

Mother, making a Merit of this Necessity, by a pretended Obedience to her often-repeated Counsel; assuring her, that he would submit his.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies] Reference

Max Müller, while referring to this same often-repeated allegation as having been applied to the aborigines of Australia, cites one of Sir.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891] Reference

This, too, may account for his often-repeated remark that he would not shield his own son if he should incur the censure of the Inquisition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited] Reference

The IFP owes the Emaqadini community a thorough explanation given its (IFP) often-repeated claims that rural development is the priority for the party.    From Wordnik.com.  [BLOCKING BUILDING OF A SCHOOL BY KZN PROVINCIAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT] Reference

Apparently he had taken unkindly to Claude's often-repeated advice to him to plead guilty and he had decided to break the family embargo and send for Rumpole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rumpole and the Reign of Terror]

The tendency of often-repeated actions to become habitual, and at last automatic, that is to say, carried out without consciousness, is a closely related phenomenon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bygone Beliefs] Reference

But many commentators outside the energy business, and some within it, believe high oil prices vindicate their often-repeated claims that ‘peak oil’ is imminent.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘The Myth of the Oil Crisis’ by Robin M. Mills | Disinformation] Reference

His wry description on a wayward pitch — "Juuuust a bit outside!" — in the movie Major League is still often-repeated by announcers and fans at ballparks all over.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Uecker moves to front row in baseball Hall of Fame] Reference

"This is in keeping with government's often-repeated intention to pursue inclusivity in its administration and to take government closer to its people," the statement said.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

But in reality this often-repeated expression covered as many different desires.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Intelligence Office (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")] Reference

Take my often-repeated, pedagogical case, that of the illustrative case of iron ore.    From Wordnik.com.  [LaRouche's Latest] Reference

Andrew Cuomo's often-repeated call for consolidation or elimination of many of these authorities.    From Wordnik.com.  [timesunion.com: Siena Women's Basketball] Reference

"Oh, why did I let him go -- why did I let him go!" was the wife's remorseful and often-repeated question.    From Wordnik.com.  [Without a Home] Reference

Amongst the settlers, also, an uneasy feeling existed, arising partly from the often-repeated demands of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Treaties of Canada with the Indians of Manitoba and the North-West Territories Including the Negotiations on Which They Were Based, and Other Information Relating Thereto] Reference

This is, as my own often-repeated experiments have shown, one of the deep-rooted, groundless prejudices to which the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests] Reference

It gave the appearance of quilting when worked on linen in geometrical designs, or in fine and often-repeated arabesques.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handbook of Embroidery] Reference

But, judging by the often-repeated response to further questions about their ownership, it seems they are not going anywhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peterborough Today - News Feed] Reference

This often-repeated chestnut (and misquote) is a staple piece of conversation between science fiction fans of the older generation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Everything2 New Writeups] Reference

The dogs were so far restrained, by the remonstrances of the old man, as to confine their noise to low but often-repeated whinings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prairie] Reference

The often-repeated claim that most colons are clogged with 10, 20 or even 40 pounds of impacted material is ridiculous, Inadomi says.    From Wordnik.com.  [SplicedFeed] Reference

In a little while Mrs. Gibson was able to accept the often-repeated invitation from the Towers to go and stay there for a day or two.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wives and Daughters] Reference