Here a row of pure-white obelisks once greeted the sun, both mystical and pragmatic in their mathematically precise alignment.

Ideas once greeted as potential catalysts for revolution began to seem banal, irrelevant or simply inadequate to the task of achieving social change.

And, unsurprisingly, writers and social critics have reacted with the same dyspepsia with which they once greeted the mass middle class.

Students once greeted her at the end of a night shift with a birthday cake.

To the Japanese, who once greeted every leap of the yen with cries of impending disaster, the verdict now seems clear.

The Senator once greeted abortion-rights leaders as "lovely ladies."

The new principal's first act was to dismantle the grotesque plexiglass barrier that once greeted students and parents who visited the principal's office.

But there are somewhat fewer flowers elsewhere; among the missing is the focal point arrangement on the bar, which once greeted diners.

The pain that greets me each morning once greeted others, we found answers for them, polio no longer plagues us.

After all, hadn't we more than once greeted the Old Man of the Mountain as an old friend?