But his healing hands soon also became indispensable to the Tsarina Alexandra who needed him to calm her nerves, cure her headaches, soothe her rages and echo back her own desires in the guise of the word of God.

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His echo chamber sounded back his own ideas.

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Back in Washington, defence officials echo that line.

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The rake of the auditorium seating is just as generous, and the stained-plywood walls cut into loosely rearranged jigsaw pieces shade pleasantly from honey hues at the back to dark mahogany at the stage's edge, a playful spatial echo of the houselights dimming.

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And since Washington is an echo chamber in which the terms of the debate are initiated by government and reflected back by media, you forgot that any other options even existed.

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No-one who heard it will ever forget the tidal wave of sound welling from the depths of the crowd that greeted the news that Mr Obama had won - it rippled back through the crowd that stretched far into the darkness of the night and seemed to hang and echo between the downtown skyscrapers.

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