It was, archaeologist Helen Geake said, "a ring of power – it could have been worn by a prince either of the church or state".
The effort to pit open space against housing has always had a ring of unfairness to it, since it required those in need of open space to make way for those in need of four walls and a roof.
But it had a ring of authenticity to it, as did Romney's references to his father and his mother, Lenore Romney, an accomplished woman who ran for the U.S. Senate in 1970 (she lost).
Despite the promise to revolutionise medicine and the language of "new paradigms", the term "evidence based medicine" has a ring of obviousness to it that makes it difficult to argue against.
Even if it does have a ring of truth to it, I may have my staff do some cursory investigation.
It's become cliché to say that 'data is the new oil,' but like all clichés, it's developed because there is a ring of truth to it.
Here's the question: "Sometimes satire has a ring of truth to it...are you a moderate?" You know, it would be just nuts to examine Huntsman's career and his voting record and make your own conclusions.
It's a shocking revelation, but with a ring of familiarity to it.
Then Clarke adds, unobtrusively, "Three hundred miles in diameter, and almost completely surrounded by a ring of magnificent mountains, it had never been explored until we entered it in the late summer of 1996".
It is another reason to think that Communist rhetoric, this time at least, has a ring of sincerity to it.
