| We ought to learn business like everybody else, go through the same rigmarole. |
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| So aleatoric poetry could be described with historical exactitude as a rigmarole. |
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| Then there is the routine stop and search and the rigmarole at airport passport control. |
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| But then came the page banners and pop-up ads and the whole rigmarole started all over again. |
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| They should just take less tax from us instead of making us go through months of rigmarole for nothing! |
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| If we'd gone much further it would have been dark before we finished all this rigmarole. |
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| I couldn't focus on an abstract location, so I focused on the last place I remember clearest before this whole rigmarole started. |
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| We very rarely get to see any of it, because we all assume no-one else would be interested in the dull rigmarole of our lives. |
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| They are for people who know what they want and who don't want to go through the rigmarole of talking to a sales assistant. |
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| I'd been on boats where people went diving, and I'd watched the rigmarole of getting kitted up in diving gear. |
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| The book is packed with stimulating philosophical allusion within the author's own field, but ends up as a bit of a rigmarole. |
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| Your mail comes at a most auspicious moment, and the precise nature of your inquiry saves me from the rigmarole of empty theory. |
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| The pomposity and rigmarole they put directors through is astounding. |
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| And having to go through the whole rigmarole again and again for the rest of his XP machines fills your correspondent with dread. |
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| Democracy is not this rigmarole in which a politician puts on a public relations vision on how much you need this person to be elected. |
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| For the body withering under the polluted skies of the City, with all the energies drained by the daily rigmarole of life, this is manna from heaven! |
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| The administrative rigmarole of the ordering process is kept to a minimum, both for you and your teams. |
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| I would need to go through the rigmarole of applying for both accounts. |
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| When the rigmarole of having a bath was over, the bath had to be emptied, dragging the bath to the back door and tipping the contents out into the yard. |
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| Howard had been through the rigmarole of selling a company many times. |
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| The others were standing around, drinks in hand, congratulating my cousin on his initiation, and asking us amused tones what we thought of the crazy rigmarole. |
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| You suddenly have a lot of freed-up capital at your disposal and you transfer your administrative rigmarole to us. |
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| Every year we go through the rigmarole of the budget procedure again and unfortunately not everyone's wishes can be met. |
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| To give an oft-quoted example, if aspirin cured cancer, no company would bother to do the trials to prove it, or go through the rigmarole of regulatory approval, since it could not patent the discovery. |
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| The significant fact of history is that it was in Hitler's Germany that the rigmarole of national flags and anthems was imposed on de Coubertin's sane, humanistic, anti-jingoist scheme of things. |
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| I ask the powers-that-be or the great and the good to do something so that in future voting time starts on time, as opposed to the rigmarole that seems to happen every part-session with the time slipping by. |
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| As a member of the Committee on Budgetary Control, I was perfectly entitled to see those reports without being subjected to a ridiculous Stalinist rigmarole. |
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| But before you can pay anyone through Pay Pal, you have to go through a lot of rigmarole and give them personal information about you, and they collect records of whom you pay. |
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| Have you seen all the rigmarole you have to go through at airport security these days? |
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| Often one's dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole. |
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