31.   Instead, he reiterated familiar themes including his push for more accountability in education and his initiative to give faith-based programs more government help.

32.   It is a familiar theme, sounded at various times by world religious leaders, politicians and politically minded celebrities.

33.   It would be a familiar theme all day as the Eagles routinely started drives inside Cowboys territory.

34.   Its second act, however, spends too much time debating the familiar theme of dealing with the old and infirm.

35.   Last Monday, in a speech at a sports stadium, he mostly repeated familiar themes, and after half an hour many in the audience drifted away.

36.   Neither one is strikingly original, but each manages to invest its familiar theme with rich characterizations and the sort of charm you might find in an independent movie.

37.   Russell knows that is a familiar theme.

38.   Savings rates in the United States are far too low, Rubin noted, striking a familiar theme in the four years he has served in the Treasury post.

39.   Searching for historical analogies, the revisionists fell back on familiar European themes, said Christopher Beckwith of Indiana University, a linguist and historian of Tibet and China.

40.   Still, the president had historic good news as he revisited familiar themes of opportunity, responsibility and community.