• The tourists recalled Sahid Afridi to open the batting with Elahi and he set the tone with three boundaries in making 13 from eight deliveries before he was caught by Herschelle Gibbs off Makhaya Ntini.

    BBC: Pakistan level series

  • The tone was set three balls into Roach's first over when danger-man Tamim Iqbal flashed at an angled delivery but succeeded only in edging to Sammy at slip.

    BBC: Cricket World Cup: West Indies crush woeful Bangladesh

  • The One SC for China Telecom has a squarish, 8.9mm asymmetric two-tone design, and three color choices as well, including a burnt orange for the more fashion forward.

    ENGADGET: HTC One S family hits China sporting different threads, identical specs

  • Both China and America should use Mr Geithner's three-day visit to set a new tone in which co-operation replaces rhetoric.

    ECONOMIST: China, America and the yuan

  • So the wise men have tried to elevate the tone by analysing the euro crisis as three interlocking problems: first, the national debts of member countries, next the bad debts of banks, and last the broader macroeconomic gloom.

    ECONOMIST: German economists

  • Where many accounts of recent Italian history have been prone to overheated rhetoric and cries of scandal, all three of these books are admirable for their sober, businesslike tone.

    NEWYORKER: Booted

  • Piano keys each have three strings that, when struck by a felt-covered hammer, make a musical sound. (The exceptions are the bass keys, which have either two strings or one.) Pressing the soft pedal shifts the hammers so only two of the three strings are touched, giving the piano a much softer tone.

    WSJ: When Two Makes Perfect | By Byron Janis

  • Her final three-hour long televised press conference before the election had a Putinesque tone.

    ECONOMIST: Ukraine's election

  • By the way, The study done by Mehrabian in 1979 on communication channels indicates that in face-to-face conversation, 55% of meaning is communicated via NVC, 7% via the verbal language (words) and 38% via the paralinguistics (Tone, timbre, speed of speaking, etc) and ALL THREE areas have to be taken into consideration when assessing communication.

    FORBES: 10 Body Language Tics That Could Cost You The Interview -- And The Job

  • The generally collegial tone had been a comfort to commuters, many of whom remember a three-day strike that snarled the city just before Christmas 2005.

    WSJ: Union Terms MTA Tactics 'An Outrage'

  • The Briton won the first two points of the match on the Tsonga serve and that set the tone for what followed, with Murray making the first breakthrough in game three thanks in part to a beautiful forehand winner, and in part to the Frenchman's first double-fault of the day.

    BBC: Andy Murray beats Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in Shanghai

  • Michael Carberry had earlier set the tone for the visitors with 77 before becoming one of Andrew Miller's three victims on his Championship debut.

    BBC: Pothas gives Hampshire early edge

  • The tone echoed a somewhat accusatory report issued by the committee Thursday that examined all three executives' retirement packages, but took aim at Mozilo in particular for obtaining a third opinion after two other compensation consultants raised questions about his pay package.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Small wonder, given the personnel changes and shift in repertoire, that the orchestra has bit by bit been losing the sheer polish and uniquely burnished tone in the classical and romantic repertoire that von Karajan fostered so assiduously for over three decades.

    ECONOMIST: Why Berlin��s musicians don��t need a maestro

  • Both coaches were quick to point out that Jameer Nelson didn't play in any of the first three meetings, but he made no difference thanks to another strong night from Williams, who set the tone with 13 points in the first quarter.

    WSJ: Nets rout Magic 97-77 for 8th straight home win

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