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The unit understands that there is a need to do more than consult the same people—the usual suspects—time and again.
I put it down as an early-day motion and the usual suspects all signed it.
I was a little worried by the fact that, this year, the usual suspects appeared to be pretty thin on the ground.
As we know, occasionally such meetings are attended only by the usual suspects, with longer speeches and few signs of discontent.
We confront this problem of scale when we round up some of the usual suspects and imagine giving them larger parts in the story of the self and of modernity.
Many of the usual suspects are there.
Nor does resistance come solely from the usual suspects in the medical- industrial complex.
As a survey it works reasonably well, rounding up most of the usual suspects and covering the major literary topoi.
