But the language, which sounds like Italian spoken through a mouthful of peanut butter, is beginning to rebound.
All of which sounds like typical master-of-the-universe behaviour, but Mr Esteves does not fit that mould precisely.
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Rather, men prefer a broader, less personalized interaction with their social engagement, which sounds like a contradiction of terms.
After the break you'll find a quick video overview of the format, which sounds like it has plenty of potential.
Ignore the title, which sounds like a Roberta Flack tribute album and bears no resemblance to the timbre of the film.
Austria, Bolivia, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Luxembourg, and Sweden all give 25 days, which sounds like almost an eternity to most Americans.
His new book is about sales, which sounds like a must purchase.
Many consumers are not impressed with the speculative concept of the iWatch, which sounds like a cross between an iPhone and a wearable iPod Nano.
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Numbers play an important role in China, with eight - which sounds like the word "prosperity" - being considered particularly auspicious, the BBC's Viv Marsh says.
In other words there will be a review of the decision to curb the growth of judicial reviews - which sounds like dotting the "i's" and crossing the "t's".
All it does is require shareholder approval, which sounds like not only a good idea, but also prevents the appearance that aapl is bending to the needs of a large hedgie.
English soccer fans see Chelsea as a nouveau-riche upstart, while Germans refer to Bayern Munich as "FC Hollywood, " which sounds like a compliment, but actually means the club's players are a bunch of entitled, egotistic monsters.
That's right, instead we're told by NVIDIA that the discrete GeForce 201M GPU runs continuously and Intel's integrated chip is never used -- a configuration which sounds like it'll absolutely kill the battery life on this machine.
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With regards to whether Toyota's setback could give GM an edge in the electric car game, Vice Chairman Bob Lutz said, "I think that our No. 1 competitor has some problems with their technology, and I do think that it very definitely opens a window of opportunity for us to be first to market with a genuine plug-in hybrid, " which sounds like fightin' words, if you ask us.
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It's produced by American Public Media, which sounds nothing like National Public Radio.
Which sounds remarkably like the strategy of every smartphone handset manufacturer in 2013.
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He will often begin his talks by performing on an esoteric instrument such as a Laotian khene, which sounds something like a harmonica.
Members of the Atlanta-based band Black Lips describe their music as "flower punk, " which sounds suspiciously like a term made up for the purposes of a press release.
According to the Associated Press, just last month Ukraine's Premier, Yulia Tymoshenko, counseled Russian metals and oil billionaire Viktor Vekselberg not to buy Pinchuk's shares in the Nikopol factory--which now sounds like a canny tip-off.
Which sounds to us like they don't think much of the buying public, but whatever.
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WMExperts is reporting an official statement released by the carrier claiming that GPS has remained locked down on many of its models simply because it hasn't met Verizon's "performance goals, " which granted, sounds like a crock -- but to Verizon's credit, they're the ones getting the phone calls when things aren't working smoothly, not the phone's manufacturer.
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Mobile payments systems make use of a technology called Near Field Communication, which is just what it sounds like.
Along with bowfishing (which is exactly what it sounds like), Hartley hunts everything from traditional game and ducks, to the more obscure.
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On the lower left, however, the obscure location number has been swapped out for the new "Time to Read" feature, which is exactly what it sounds like: an estimate of how many minutes it will take you to finish the book.
Which is to say: he sounds like a serious challenger to centrist ideas, but in the end his struggles may prove fruitless.
It sounds like a request which Mr Blair, given his beliefs in Christianity, communitarianism, decentralisation and, perhaps more importantly, a constituency of his own in county Durham, will find hard to refuse.
Sounds like better management, which is what chief executive Carol Bartz trumpeted in a statement accompanying the earnings.
If it was one of my friends, I would say, 'Oh, my God, that sounds like a PP, which is a personal problem.
Labyrinth 2 is just what it sounds like: a maze through which you have to guide eerily realistic metal balls.
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