For those who believe that the national debate over boat people should become a lot less shrill and a lot more compassionate, perhaps the biggest drawback of the programme was that it was preaching to the converted.
Mr Sarkozy has turned from a stout defender of the euro into a shrill critic of the EU. A Europe that opens its markets without counterparties, and which does not defend its enterprises and farmers, is finished, he says.
Global Times says the country's rapid development is "sounding a shrill alarm again" on pollution and backs public calls for a fireworks ban during the Chinese New Year next month.
Standing in line at my local coffee shop, I heard a shrill beeping sound coming from the customer behind me.
As the two pilgrims tiptoed back into the room designated as our office space, Mohammed's mobile phone alarm started off a shrill tune.
Their mentor is a shrill crusader for lower taxes.
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The U.S. is becoming a little shrill about the need to do something.
Everyone agrees that the tone and content of many of them is a bit shrill and occasionally intolerant (kind of like University faculty meetings), but there is one repeating thread, by one of your most prestigious employees, Dr. Tom Wigley, that is far beyond the pale of most academic backbiting.
When they practiced the violin on summer evenings, their shrill arpeggios elicited, among neighbors, a mixture of curiosity and envy.
Because Reich, unlike shrill Johnny-one-note Paul Krugman, is a master of the art of persuasive writing.
Early one Sunday morning, the shrill reverberating sound of my home phone woke me from a deep sleep.
If America sticks to those standards now it will display a strength and sanity that contrasts with the shrill absolutism and cyber-vandalism of the WikiLeaks partisans.
Its remorselessly shrill tone, alternating between the shocking and the motivational (not a word Mr Peters likes but accurate, nonetheless), could easily cause a normal brain to explode after half an hour's continuous exposure.
Instead Obama got 1.3% economic growth rates, the economy teetering on the edge of a double dip, an unemployment rate over 9%, and shrill claims from the hard left that mere near trillion dollar deficits simply are not enough.
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My complaints over the past few weeks have become increasingly shrill: the economy of Europe is just about to go off the edge of a cliff and no one seems to be doing anything about it.
Early evening is a magical time here, with only the occasional chamois grazing the slopes and the shrill whistling of marmots interrupting the pervading sense of calm.
Despite the corporation's shrill response, the reforms proposed by Lord Carter, the communications minister, are only nudges in a new direction.
Australian outfit No Anchor understand how to make sinister noise-rock that sounds great: Their 2011 album, Real Pain Supernova, includes slabs of distorted bass notes that rumble and quake, sludgy riffs played at a crawling pace, shrieks of feedback that shoot skyward, and harrowing vocals punctuated with shrill wailing.
Continued high debt and austerity will give 2012 a superficial air of sameness but 2012 is an election year so the debate will get more shrill.
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