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Drumbeat
Definition:
(n.) The sound of a beaten drum; drum music.
Example Sentences:
(1) It’s been a constant drumbeat: ‘Leave the union.
(2) Despite the drumbeat of austerity, money will be found.
(3) Yet the wall, just like the beatings, arrests and forced demolitions before it, only amplified the steady drumbeat of marches and petitions.
(4) "The counterpoint to the ongoing wars of aggression and the drumbeat heralding a 'clash of civilisations' is the desire of ordinary people in the west and in the Arab world to engage with each other," the Egyptian author Ahdaf Soueif said at the time.
(5) This official had been due to go on the record earlier this week with his legal opinion – in an attempt to create a "drumbeat" of pressure – but his wife forbade him from going public with such an attack on the prime minister.
(6) But throughout it you could hear the steady drumbeat of pressure from his paid advisers, most of his shadow cabinet colleagues and many of his close circle.
(7) David Cameron is to be hailed for sticking to his guns and allocating 0.7% of the budget to aid but let us never forget the drumbeat of rage and derision that envelopes him all the while because of this, his most domestically unpopular policy position.
(8) Within a year or two, however, Presley and his kind were pushing country acts down the bill, and by the end of the 50s Johnnie & Jack were simply Opry regulars with an occasional minor hit record, such as Stop the World (and Let Me Off) in 1958 and the folky Sailor Man (1959), which borrowed its martial drumbeat from Johnny Horton's recent huge hit The Battle of New Orleans.
(9) To the Tory heartland it continues its incessant drumbeat of being "tough" in "lean" times.
(10) The bombings will be seen as an attack on ordinary Arabs, rather than Saddam.” As the drumbeat to war echoed around the corridors of Downing Street, others in MI6 disregarded Allen’s warnings, seduced by wildly exaggerated intelligence claims about Iraq’s weapons programme – claims they knew would be welcomed by the government.
(11) This is the real cost of the way the politics of border control has become a constant drumbeat in the cacophony of daily political discourse.
(12) She said Miliband was well-meaning but she could discern the "steady drumbeat of pressure" to move to the right from some of his inner circle in response to Ukip.
(13) The injured and lifeless are retrieved, that melodic drumbeat thuds again in the children’s mouths, and within moments the crowd has returned to its starting position, readying themselves for another reckless push into the unknown.
(14) Many of the same people who argued for the war in Iraq are now making the case against the Iran nuclear deal.” In a speech that also drew comparisons with the cold war arms talks of John F Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, the president warned against heeding the “drumbeat of war” from “lobbyists and pundits ... transformed into armchair nuclear scientists, challenging real experts”.
(15) For two weeks Tripoli has echoed to the drumbeat of artillery, tank fire and rockets as rival militias trade fire, much of it landing on innocent civilians.
(16) The drumbeat has been so consistent it has spawned a yes poster that serves as a reply, one that feeds into the perennial SNP claim that unionists are people who simply don't believe in the Scots and their potential: "Don't let them tell us we can't."
(17) But the daily drumbeat of negative claims about the EU is creating a momentum towards exit that may become unstoppable.
(18) A long, low hum, dressed up by drumbeats, ebbed and flowed throughout, rising to ear-splitting levels at the end.
(19) The individuals who spoke out – part of what Brown critics accepted was a "drumbeat" – intervened despite reports of considerable pressure from the government whipping operation.
(20) And throughout this campaign, there has been a drumbeat denouncing “the Westminster elite”, castigating all politicians, along with anyone in authority or in a public position of expertise, as either a liar or the corrupt dupe of a wicked Brussels conspiracy.
Rataplan
Definition:
(n.) The iterative sound of beating a drum, or of a galloping horse.