We hated the way he constantly discussed what his clothing would have cost somebody who didn't have a perpetually post-college slump sister who worked a seemingly endless chain of men's retail jobs.

FORBES: Abstract

The crowds marched in mourning and remembrance, in a seemingly endless human chain moving slowly up the hill towards the monument to Armenia's most painful memory.

BBC: NEWS | Europe | Armenians remember mass killings

Faced with collapsing fish populations, whether the disappearance of the cod fishery on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland or the failure of the North Sea herring fisheries, the reaction has been one of half-hearted measures: too little done too late in a chain of endless procrastination excused by the need for ever more scientific research.

ECONOMIST: Salmon fishing