But these days America seems to be listening, if only to hear what Russia wants.
Greene agrees people will tune in, if only to hear her talk.
And the public will be confused if they switch on the regional news only to hear about the doings of a different region's assembly.
Arriving at work with The xx on his iPod, Joe removed his earbuds only to hear the same album coming out of an office mate's computer speakers.
Before rejoining her team this year, Franklin expressed concern about sucking attention from other girls, only to hear from rival coaches that their girls wanted to share the pool with the world's best.
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When you've held a conversation with a man, briefed him on his mission, his objective and reminded him of the potential consequences during the actioning of it, only to hear he never returned, and did not die gracefully, though blessedly quickly, prayerfully painlessly... you do not breathe the same ever after.
"We weren't able to see them, we were only able to hear them, " Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spokesman Jorge Pino told the affiliate.
Do they think women only want to hear about sports from women?
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The circumaural design and leatherette sealant of the headset's ear cups, block out all unwanted, ambient noise and allows players to only hear the awesome, intense audio of their games and music.
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Sure, there were magazines like Creem and Rolling Stone, but the only place to actually hear any new music was on the radio, so the chance of discovering something new and exciting was limited.
Another 200 miles north is Carnarvon, where we lingered only long enough to hear local boosters tout the thrill of driving the Kingsford Smith Mail Run, a route starting at the town's fully automated public toilet and ending inland some 500 miles farther on at Meekatharra.
But true office Machiavellis will be pleased to learn that private chats are also possible, since the software can work out who is within earshot of whom, and will transmit sound only to those who should be able to hear it.
Clearly, Saddam had surrounded himself with advisers who told him only what he wanted to hear.
Isolationist tendencies have a long history in America, and desires like those professed by Palin, Graham, and Trump to hear only English around them come under this category.
There were some anxious moments as Hatton lolled on his back, but he eventually came round to hear only stunned silence from his thousands of fans.
Everyone around Saddam understood that his need to hear only good news was constantly growing, and that it was in their best interest to feed that hunger.
Well-funded super PACs took on some ground game efforts for the Romney campaign, and polls conducted in the home stretch found voters in the most hotly contested battlegrounds felt they'd been only slightly more likely to hear from Obama's campaign than Romney's.
Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle, D-South Dakota, tried to bring up the bill after leaders of the Senate and the White House were unable to reach agreement, saying the only way to proceed was to "hear out the other ideas" in a floor debate.
In the mid-sixties, when the BBC was still monopolizing radio in Great Britain, a rogue operator, broadcasting from a ship anchored in the North Sea, plays rock to a country that could only hear the Beatles and the Stones live or by going to a record store.
To make sure you hear only relevant information, you can set the app's filters to only share audio about your favourite topics, such as food or architecture.
Wrestling is now the only other Olympic sport waiting to hear whether it will have British representation.
In other words, each half of the country lives within its own echo chamber, only consuming what it wants to hear.
You must spread those 12 minutes of talk time over four separate audiences, which means most people listening to you will only hear you for three minutes (12 divided by 4).
That, the company says, not only allows for the wearer to hear much more natural sounds since they don't have to be amplified as much, but allows them to wear the hearing aid for 24 hours a day.
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He wanted to see and hear only those parts of his family that he deemed acceptable.
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Anecdotally, I only hear of either plans to keep payrolls the same or slightly increase them.
When I was lying there not being able to hear anything, the only thing in my head was my family.
In real terms, you might be surprised to hear that there were only two years in Thatcher's time when spending fell at all.
Poulter posed over his 4-iron shot to the 13th green and was so stunned to see it come up short that he looked at his small gallery for the longest time, repeating loud enough for them to hear that he was only 138 yards from the front of the green.
Mr. NEAL: Typically, when I talk to local coordinators, we hear this general theme that the only type of equipment or training we can do is related to terrorism, that the specific hazards for the community--whether it's floods, whether it's hurricanes--we can't get the money to train for that.
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