Preposition: of

• saint: Details of its litany of saints suggest it was made for Ramsey Abbey in Huntingdonshire.

• complaint: At a meeting of the Camden Square Neighborhood Association this week a litany of complaints were aired.

• failure: Imtiaz Amin, Zahid's uncle, said, " The Keith report shows a litany of failures run right through the prison service.

• abuse: Japan's woeful litany of abuses provoked the audience to laughter at one point, causing the chairman to intervene.

• crime: The civilized world was horror struck by the killing, just the latest in a litany of crimes committed this year in Northern Ireland.

• name: He ends with a litany of names of peoples who have been driven into exile during the course of the twentieth century.

Converse of object

• recite: My aim in reciting this litany -- which could be extended indefinitely -- is not to tell you what choices you should make.

• have: The American Academy of Pediatrics ( AAP ) has a litany of evils they blame on TV in particular.

• hear: Every day I find myself hearing the same old litany: ' It's progress!

• give: I was given a litany of state failure: gangs with guns but police too thinly spread to make much difference.

• chant: Surely he could not have been wrong all his life in chanting the litany as he had done!

• sing: Did you ever in your life, bishop, hear anything so like play-acting as the way in which Mr. Harding sings the litany?

Adjective modifier

• familiar: The reports are a familiar litany: Arnold, Maury Island, Mantell, the New Mexico green fireballs.

• usual: A change from the usual litany of contempt for sf and fantasy!

• whole: So there were a whole litany of " we knows.

• long: In the long litany of public relations catastrophes which have marred Labor's good name, there is one common thread.

• same: Every day I find myself hearing the same old litany: ' It's progress!

• old: Every day I find myself hearing the same old litany: ' It's progress!