1. They timed their steps to the drumbeat.

2. The drumbeat of the Gingrich case had poisoned the atmosphere in the House for weeks.

3. Before the crisis drumbeat intensifies, a few facts are worth remembering.

4. The drumbeat for an appointment of an independent counsel to investigate alleged abuses in campaign financing will almost certainly escalate.

5. This effort is part of a more generalized drumbeat of criticism about one-parent families.

6. The drumbeat of articles about Secretary of State Madeleine K.

7. The marchers timed their steps to the drumbeat.

8. The warmongers kept up their drumbeat on Iraq.

9. Markets are marching partly to a drumbeat of improving economic news.

10. It is above all to the drumbeat of Wilsonian idealism that American foreign policy has marched since his watershed presidency, and continues to march to this day.

11. Flam:a drumbeat consisting of two almost simultaneous strokes of which the first is a very rapid grace note.

12. Now a drumbeat of bad news about Japan's economy is hitting the yen.

13. Competing teams row their boats forward to a drumbeat racing to reach the finish end first.

14. Drumbeat to Victory Draw the sword and march onwards: complete one quick battle.

15. We've had a constant drumbeat of bad news-durable goods orders, factory orders,(/drumbeat.html) auto sales at really depression levels.

16. The cracker of winter jasmine, knock the drumbeat that marches toward new century noisy.

17. The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival is a significant holiday celebrated in China, and the one with the longest history. The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated by boat races in the shape of dragons. Competing teams row their boats forward to a drumbeat racing to reach the finish end first.

18. The music dwindles until nothing is left but a drumbeat out of the big-band era.

19. But out in the African bush , progress a drumbeat.

20. From the very first days of the reforms, the parliament kept up an incessant drumbeat of protest.

21. For the moment , at least, history appears to be marching to an Asian drumbeat.