It has a fun ring to it, but more than that it is a powerful way to get kids engaged in learning about inventing, and tinkering, and making interesting projects.
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Parker's alarmism would probably have a depraved ring to it in all circumstances.
The positive trading update had a familiar ring to it, since other supermarket groups in Britain have also surprised the market with strong sales over the holiday season: J Sainsbury's like-for-like sales rose by 3.7% in the 13 weeks to Jan. 2, while retail bellwether John Lewis said its sales rose 12.7% in the five weeks to Jan. 2.
It all had a certain familiar ring to it, did it not?
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"Neither of us feels a need to put a ring on it, " she said.
Which has a nice biblical ring to it, but still we scratch our heads.
The overall effect is to make you feel more creative and more connected to photography, to the point where Samsung's marketing about a "new visual communication era" actually has a ring of truth to it.
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For example, people can easily locate a missing phone by triggering the handset to ring loudly, even if it is set to silent, or to flag its location on a map.
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Play it for friends at holiday parties, or convert it to a ring tone and bring joy to the world.
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It allows users to keep it with them at all times, as it can be easily attached to a key ring or lanyard.
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Sledge, having scooped up the dead bees from the doorjamb in the Nursery, embedded these in the gunk to form a ring of bee emissaries, the better to passport the foot into whatever afterlife it deserves.
Whenever it picks up a can of drink to add to the ingredients, it examines the lid with a camera so that it can work out where to find the ring-pull.
Perhaps a 113grammer just does not have the same ring to it.
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When the Fn 2 lever next to the lens is placed downward, the ring around the lens switches to analog control so it can be used as a focus or a zoom ring.
"If we think that for society as a whole it is important to have ring-fencing, both from a financial stability point of view and from a cultural point of view, I absolutely agree it should have strong enforcement and strong incentives in order for this to happen, " said the chief executive.
Mounted on a ring, it was a gift from Richard Burton to Elizabeth Taylor.
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After he was washed overboard, crew threw a life ring to him but he was unable to reach it.
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Anyone who spotted it was asked to ring a fictitious number.
To prevent forgery, Bertone will break the pope's fisherman's ring by hitting it with a small hammer, a tradition that was started when the ring was used to seal documents.
Then too, just making it to the end of a "Ring" cycle is its own reward.
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Edinburgh, one of the keenest authorities, has plans for a road-pricing ring, but it is not expected to be in operation until 2005.
If it sees you buying Preperation H, it may try to sell you a padded ring.
Historically, the area was so isolated by its ring of mountains that until 1895 only a footpath connected it to the rest of Slovenia.
They work by detecting the characteristic high-power radio transmission a phone makes when it tells the network it is ready to ring.
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It used to be that if you walked in the door of a Cleveland industrial pump distributor, the guy at the door would lug you a big catalog in a three ring binder and let you spend 15 minutes flipping through it to see which ones you thought you might like to buy.
It became easy to dupe him with a fake gold ring or an ivory statuette of a bare-breasted Minoan goddess.
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