"Mark's the man," Sosa said, sounding his familiar mantra.

It had become a familiar mantra, part of the bitterness inside him.

Alice runs over her impressive curriculum vitae in her mind, a familiar mantra.

"I want to hear all about your trip," goes the familiar mantra.

But then came the familiar mantra: "I assure you I have not taken options off the table."

To his people, he repeated what has become a familiar mantra: "Onward together until we pray together in Jerusalem, the capital of the Palestinian state."

The Commission may have trimmed its economic forecasts but, in place of policy proposals, it is content to churn out familiar mantras.

Booed off the pitch in his last game for the club, he joined West Ham and left Glasgow chanting a familiar mantra.

"When in doubt, let air out" became one familiar mantra, and "there's no shame in walking" another.

Mr. Jackson's words are a familiar mantra in the music industry, one that mirrors the growing rift between artists and the recording companies who represent them.