That is why the next wave of environmental policymaking will need to employ commonsense tools such as cost-benefit analysis, and make greater use of flexible, market-based instruments such as emissions-trading, rather than the tired command-and-control approach favoured by most greens.

ECONOMIST: Energy and the environment

Rather than fight the same tired battles that have dominated Washington for decades, it's time to try something new.

WHITEHOUSE: The 2010 State of the Union Address

He would, they said, have been better off making sure that the funding Wales gets from Europe is spent more effectively, "creating a dynamic trading relationship with our EU partners ... rather than going to Brussels full of empty words and tired rhetoric about Europe".

BBC: Flexing his muscles in Brussels

Rather than lazy and unloving, is your husband overworked and tired?

WSJ: Nagging in Marriage Is More Common Than Adultery But Can Also Lead to Divorce

Toyota's luxury car business, Lexus, was created from scratch, rather than by the purchase of some other firm's famous, but tired, brand.

ECONOMIST: The global car industry

But salvation through exports is faltering, partly because Britain sells mainly to tired rich-world countries where demand is also muted rather than to exuberant developing ones.

ECONOMIST: Economic stumbles