The younger generation feels stifled by their elders stale, protectionist policies.

Political slogans, however high sounding, become stale when their purveyors fail to make good on their promises.

The output of the US and European music industries sounds stale in comparison, owing to a dearth of innovation over the last two decades.

The air was stale but heavy with the stench of death in interrogation chambers, barren save for a single bed frame, shackles, and a chair.

Far too many negotiations went over old ground even though, on many issues, the time for negotiation was over. Debate in some cases had become stale and repetitive, with no tangible benefits for women.

He has broken the power of the military old guard and the hold of its stale Kemalist ideology the secular nationalism introduced by Turkey s first president, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk thereby permanently altering the makeup of Turkish politics.

In the fourth edition Bird added a recommendation to wash out the bladder in cases of alkaline urine, after an experiment by Snow showed that stale urine became alkaline when fresh urine was slowly dripped into it.

To do this, the often pre scripted and stale dialogue between the North Atlantic Council and the EU s Political and Security Committee should be opened up to include topics such as combating terrorism and the proliferation of WMD, or regions such as Ukraine or Moldova.

The second thing that Xi and his colleagues need to do is to follow up with specific policies and actions that can bolster the credibility of their declared goals. Political slogans, however high sounding, become stale when their purveyors fail to make good on their promises.

No. I think the actual answer is that once you reframe it, once you get out of one set of stale expectations from a failed project that had its day, but now, for whatever reason, is tarnished, you can actually rekindle the kind of human kindness and sharing that something like this on Craigslist represents.