Oberon sat on the floor in a corner of the room, trying to quiet the brokenhearted wailing of the Beastie, but not making a sound himself.
But Mr Muis does not sound very optimistic that it will ever be adopted.
Of course, losing less today may not sound thrilling but it does translate into producing better long-term portfolio returns by avoiding crippling losses.
But he managed to sound like a man who knows not only about foreign affairs but also how much it costs to heat a family home in winter.
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It might not sound appealing, but the stick approach is part of the mix for behavior change.
That may not sound hilarious, but when it works it grants him new routes into old topics.
That may not sound disastrous, but it would have been enough to make farming in the area unviable.
It may not sound riveting, but reforming Chinese farming is long overdue and a crucial matter of stability.
"That might not sound significant, but it's dramatic in our industry, " Ruiz said.
It is designed to sound about right but not actually commit to anything.
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It may not sound that much but it represents many millions of people coming to Twitter for the first time.
There are the obligatory crappy headphones which not only sound crappy but actually look crappy, as well, in this case.
Now these numbers may not sound large, but here, you know, one or two deaths reverberate quite broadly and deeply.
That may not sound much, but it would have a serious effect on a country's brainpower if it were widespread.
Scribbling insults on a virtual cube may not sound like it but it is one of the very things that makes us human.
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Not only is there a risk of foreign investors not trusting Chinese companies if there is not sound corporate governance but all Chinese people.
That may not sound much, but Mr Lau points out that it actually has 3.9m sensors, so that it comfortably outperforms a conventional 2.0-megapixel sensor.
These ideas may not sound revolutionary, but very few businesses show the discipline to create scenarios and measure probabilities for large but unexpected market changes.
Benedict XVI usually speaks not in sound bites but in carefully crafted paragraphs, which sometimes leaves the door ajar for competing explanations of what he really means.
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Mainstream acts in the UK have "a little bit more of an edge" than their US counterparts, he says, but do not have a typically British sound - which works in their favour.
That might not sound too bad but only two months ago the IMF was forecasting a rise of 1.7% and at the start of the year the UN had projected a 4.8% increase.
The beauty of it is not its sound numbers but its boldness: The entire portion of an employee's contribution to Social Security and Medicare (7.65%) would go into the individual's private retirement and health accounts.
The World Tourism Organisation says international tourist arrivals fell 1% in the second half of 2008, which may not sound bad, but compares with growth of more than 5% a year for the previous four years.
To hear the effect of wave field synthesis, you have to be inside a WFS hall, where no matter where you're sitting you're enveloped but not deafened by the sound those carefully placed speakers produce.
This may not sound onerous, but in places such as Mozambique, where the annual budget for fighting malaria is less than 30 cents a person, any additional bureaucracy could prove to be a big drain on resources.
That does not sound like much but it does mean that extreme rain storms may bring more rain than before - with more moisture in the air, what goes up must come down, and the odds are worse.
The company has spent several years developing a "portable people meter"--a cell-phone-sized device that panelists could carry with them and automatically record not only radio signals but television sound and even such other acoustic sources as music piped in at a grocery store.
So, argues the Welsh Government, add 15 to that number - the expected rise in the number of donors under presumed consent - 15 people, 45 organs and that is not an insignificant number of lives saved, or money saved. 15 might not sound very much but purely in terms of cost to the NHS, just one single donor, argues the government, would make this policy worthwhile in cost terms.
The X7i's balanced-armature drivers deliver a flatter response and cleaner sound than the S4s, but as we experienced with the X10i, it might not sound or feel like a drastic improvement to most for the price.
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