• It allows them to offer stock options to local employees, a boon in a drum-tight labor market.

    CNN: THE NEW YORK GOLD RUSH

  • His selections generally avoided melody, blending stretches of condensed, grainy rhythm with stomping drum-and-bass tunes from the mid-nineties.

    NEWYORKER: Atomic Clock

  • But, interpreted as a general call for tax reform, the Forbes drum-beat is likely to attract a growing band of followers.

    ECONOMIST: The Steve Forbes drum-beat

  • For example, thanks to concerted drum-beating by charities, British people deluge their politicians with postcards and phone calls demanding more overseas aid.

    ECONOMIST: Setting up an ��NRA for the poor��

  • EU's environmental drum-banging at the European Council meeting last week (see article), are the political face of attempts to build that principle into economic policy.

    ECONOMIST: Climate change

  • That is to say, why, in our drum-thumping, ritually trumpeting time, did so little fanfare precede the opening of a movie with so much to recommend it?

    WSJ: 'Igby' Is a Darkly Comic Trip

  • As such, the film is an efficient demonstration of the Greengrass method: the punch-drunk camerawork, the drum-beating soundtrack, and a stout refusal to pause for thought or downtime.

    NEWYORKER: Green Zone

  • De Vaucanson built two astonishing humanoid musicians--one played the flute and the other played pipes and drum--yet the automaton that brought him the most fame was a life-size mechanical duck.

    FORBES

  • If Royal Caribbean can't give people a reason to travel on its cruise ships rather than on Carnival 's , maybe its best to stir them into action with a drum-banging television spot and scream at them to "Get Out There!"

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Developed by men who had left their families behind to start a life in Argentina's bustling capital city, the dance expressed machismo, passion, longing and a fighting edge - and was set to an emerging sound rooted in Spanish and Italian melodies, criollo (Argentine-born) verse and Afro-Uruguayan candombe (a drum-based rhythm).

    BBC: Anyone for tango?

  • If Royal Caribbean can't give people a reason to travel on its cruise ships rather than on Carnival 's (nyse: CCL - news - people ), maybe its best to stir them into action with a drum-banging television spot and scream at them to "Get Out There!"

    FORBES: Bully Marketing

  • And now, the 2007 Word of the Year as been announced, and it is - drum roll please - subprime.

    NPR: Word of the Year: Subprime

  • Next head to the main ring, where a typical timetable may consist of falconry displays, Cumberland wrestling, pipe-and-drum performances and pony-and-trap contests.

    BBC: The great British country show: A cultural eye opener

  • Lewis got thunder with his bass-drum roll, right-foot-powered.

    NPR: JazzSet On The Road: Blue Note 7 Recorded Live

  • The striking feature is the church's interior: velvet-cushioned pews crushed on top of each other, sodden floorboards and a broken drum set -- picture perfect upheaval.

    CNN: 'Cultural jackpot' hardest hit

  • On cue, the sounds of the fife-and-drum corps filled the hall with Colonial-era music.

    NEWYORKER: Romney��s Dilemma

  • The Luvaglio folks still seem a bit press shy -- either due to the info "leaked" last month, or a willful attempt to drum up interest -- but now they're back for more, and this time they've got a much better pic of this outlandishly priced laptop of theirs.

    ENGADGET: Luvaglio million dollar gets "official," sort of

  • The most interesting thing about the nation's most storied community is its hum-drum banality.

    WSJ: The Bronx Is Heating Up

  • The brick building was decked in patriotic bunting, and a fife-and-drum corps led Romney inside.

    NEWYORKER: Romney��s Dilemma

  • This is followed by the communal sheepskin-drum and salang dances, led by the shibi.

    UNESCO: Culture

  • In the plant's control room, Penrice's workers watch crystals form on the outside of a vacuum-drum filter.

    ECONOMIST: Petri-dish economies

  • Once a year the museum stages a Militia Day, with musket firings, fife-and-drum marches and a mock battle.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • He was there to walk the halls and drum up non-audit work at audit clients and non-audit clients alike.

    FORBES: Consulting By Auditors: NYU Stern Ross Roundtable Explores Post-Enron Reemergence

  • But candidates may still have to bang-the-drum for these elections, even before they can draw up political lines between their rivals.

    BBC: Nottinghamshire PCC: Pledge to help victims

  • The Pavilion bar serves afternoon tea, then segues into tropical cocktails as the evening settles in, the stars light up, and a steel-drum band takes the stage.

    FORBES: Best Of The Old-School Caribbean: Rosewood Little Dix Bay, British Virgin Islands

  • Already hum-drum Gap is one that will feel the squeeze.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • It is easier to dress soldiers in bright uniforms and have them march to the sound of a fife-and-drum corps than it is to have them ride six hundred miles through the desert on the back of a camel.

    NEWYORKER: How David Beats Goliath

  • " I have a hunch that he means the tough-minded Tati who made "Playtime" -- a difficult, seldom-seen experimental comedy that also starts with drum riffs on the soundtrack -- more than the gently whimsical Tati who puffed a pipe and toted a butterfly net in "Mr. Hulot's Holiday.

    WSJ: High Anxiety: 'Punch-Drunk Love'

  • Antonio Fazio, the governor of Italy's central bank, has been banging the pensions-reform drum for several years.

    ECONOMIST: Italian pensions

  • Mobile Fluid Recovery then used a massive high-speed drum to spin out all the absorbed oil and waste water from the booms.

    FORBES: Oil-soaked Booms From Gulf Find New Use in Chevy Volt

$firstVoiceSent
- 来自原声例句
小调查
请问您想要如何调整此模块?

感谢您的反馈,我们会尽快进行适当修改!
进来说说原因吧 确定
小调查
请问您想要如何调整此模块?

感谢您的反馈,我们会尽快进行适当修改!
进来说说原因吧 确定