Every so often Abdu had to press the horn, which sounded like an explosion in the narrow street.
At Spoleto, they also provided a showcase for Jennifer Rowley, an exciting young dramatic soprano, and for the Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra, which sounded robust and vivid under the direction of Maurizio Barbacini.
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They returned some three hours later, by which time the adhaan was being sounded for the early morning prayer, or fajr.
The Gallaghers showed me wonderful newspaper cuttings evoking a vanished world in which the factory hooter was sounded triumphantly to celebrate the village team's victory in a competition in Belfast.
The quaint hiss and crackle of the blunted needle as it gently rose and fell with the warp of the album sounded like the ether, through which the dead were hopelessly calling to us.
The once-and-future candidates couldn't afford to look gobsmacked, and George W. Bush announced that he had curled up with the new biography of Joe DiMaggio, which sounded like an odd thing to do, especially since the Cliff Notes haven't been written.
Buffalo not only got a break on Briere's shot which banked wide as the final horn sounded, but also on its only goal.
Then there are the statements of U.S. officials on the subject, which all have sounded excruciatingly lawyered.
For comparison, an old Dell business desktop gave us 41dBa at idle, a PlayStation 3 gave us 42dBa and an original Xbox 360 (not Elite) gave us 47.8dbA. It's said that a 10dB gain is perceived by human ears as a doubling of volume, which seems about right -- the Xbox sounded far louder than our HTPC.
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The explanation sounded like it came out of an energy journal, which can't be surprising because that's the kind of thing he apparently enjoys reading.
Experts investigating the plane crash which killed the golfer Payne Stewart and five others in October say a low-pressure alarm sounded shortly before the fatal accident.
There were weekend talk shows in which U.S. lawmakers sounded more conciliatory on the matter.
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However, it was the ideas that were spelt out today, and the way that they were, which sounded authentically like David Cameron.
In nearly two hours, and at a cost of more than forty million dollars, the movie supplies almost exactly the entertainment value of a single half-hour episode of the original radio drama, which always sounded as if it cost about a buck ninety-eight to produce.
The Berlin albums are perfectly poised between art and pop, containing both avant-garde enigmas like "Warszawa" and glorious, gripping songs like the title track of "Heroes, " which sounded not at all out of place, 35 years later, as Team GB's Olympic anthem.
An unnamed spokesperson for the Israeli defence ministry said the creation of the Palestinian encampment, which they named Bab el Shams, "sounded like a provocation", AFP reported.
When he finally returned our Skype calls, his baritone had the clipped intonation of a forced foreign accent, which eventually gave way to what sounded like a Scottish lilt.
Liddell, the Microsoft CFO, sounded an upbeat note about the company's prospects for the 2009 fiscal year, which starts in July.
Justices Alito and Anthony Kennedy sounded skeptical arbitration, which is designed to be a streamlined process, was compatible with class actions in the first place.
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