Example collocations logo

Sounding in sentence

212 examples of Sounding in a sentence

The ABCs of NCD CareGENEVA – The World Health Organization recently began sounding the alarm about a deadly new pathogen called Disease X.
Mainstream conservatives, widely perceived as being in thrall to the economic interests of the wealthy, must find ways to appear populist – but without sounding too much like their far-right competitors on immigration and human rights.
Sounding the alarm on inequality, the Bank of Italy calculates that the combined wealth of the ten richest Italians equals that of three million of their poorest countrymen.
LONDON – Protesters in the United Kingdom are sounding the alarm over a perceived resurgence of anti-Semitism in politics.
Increasingly, pillars of the establishment are sounding like shrill critics.
On the contrary, the UNHCR is not only still with us; it is sounding an alarm.
In June, speaking at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum, Medvedev mesmerized his audience by simultaneously sounding avant-garde and hackneyed: he attacked corruption, vowed that Russia is not “building state capitalism,” and promised legal and federal reforms.
He argued that if Israel were to take the lead in sounding the alarm on Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the issue would be perceived as yet another “Israeli problem.”
I was not arguing for protectionism, but rather sounding a cautionary note that we must be aware of the downside risks and be prepared to deal with them.
At the risk of sounding frivolous: When you stop a man in traditional dress from beating his wife, are you upholding her human rights or violating his?
Just as a few of us warned of impending crisis in the 2003-2006 period, some – including the Bank of International Settlements and the IMF– are sounding the alarm today, but to no avail.
In the wake of Russia’s apparent departure from democratization during Vladimir Putin’s presidency, and of the wars in Chechnya and Georgia, the EU has adopted increasingly cautious language, sounding less optimistic about the prospects of a real partnership.
Sounding the Alarm on Biodiversity LossNORWICH – With the United Nations’ climate change conference underway in Bonn, Germany, rising global temperatures are once again at the top of the world’s agenda.
(Indeed, with alarm bells sounding throughout the region, the United States’ “pivot to Asia,” widely derided for its clumsy rollout and unintended consequences, now seems wise and prudent.)
But with Justin Trudeau’s election the Canadians have gone back to sounding and acting like Canadians, and with the Abbott government’s mercifully early demise, any talk of the Anglosphere here has been banished to the far-right fringe.
A referendum is not usually an accurate sounding of people’s rational faculties or a test of their expertise.
The discrimination by my country’s government against my racial and ethnic group is so blatant that some civil registry offices have distributed lists of “Haitian sounding names” so that staff members can recognize them.
The Saudis have been particularly unimpressed by progress in Shia-led Iraq to date, and have taken the lead in sounding the alarm about the danger that Iran poses to the Arab world’s only Shia-led country.
This means more than passing a few virtuous sounding resolutions in the Duma.
Sounding the alarm about “artificial intelligence taking American jobs” does nothing to bring such policies about.
But then, on February 27, the Financial Times reported that the Polish government was sounding out the possibility of presenting an alternative candidate, Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, an MEP from Civic Platform, the party Tusk founded.
At the risk of sounding simplistic, I can't help feeling that working together as a group is an innately feminine tendency.
Boards of directors’ risk committees should be sounding the alarm.
Newspapers are sounding alarms as well.
It is not entirely clear why the alarms are sounding just now, after five years of general expansion in markets since they hit bottom in early 2009.
In fact, the European Commission has been sounding distinctly British in recent months, with promises to limit – and even repeal – parts of European legislation deemed too intrusive or impediments to economic growth.
But sounding fetchingly unsure about what you are describing is not an effective way to pitch an idea to a potential investor, publisher, or constituent.
These are great ideas, but as I went through these texts I found them to be rather familiar sounding – I had the feeling that somehow and somewhere I had already studied them.
Yet, incredibly, Stein is sounding just like Nader in 2000.
On one hand, Sweden was an extroverted activist, sounding more like a non-governmental organization than a nation-state; on the other hand, it maintained a hyper-realist “deep security” policy, albeit one that was talked about only in low voices behind closed doors.
Back