But by the next year, Mr. Mir said, Mr. bin Laden had seized on the issue of forcing American forces out of Saudi Arabia, and his messages began resonating.
That shift in mindset has begun resonating throughout comics, particularly among fans who want to see superheroes address urgent, real-world problems.
Indeed, Mr. Obama's comments have already begun resonating in the long-running dispute over affirmative action, emerging as three states consider ballot initiatives that would ban racial preferences altogether.
With ubiquitous reports of Pentagon waste – from a gurgling, 10ft, $600,000 toad sculpture to logistical blunders that cost taxpayers billions – and gas prices soaring just cents shy from its all-time national average high, Barbour's rhetoric began resonating in a powerful way with uncommitted primary voters.
Veterans groups pointed out that Houston and San Antonio had suffered the second- and third-highest numbers of fatalities from the war in Iraq, after New York, so Mr. Obama's opposition to the war from the beginning resonated strongly here.
And as the notion of the connected home begins to resonate, ever-smaller versions of flash memory cards will routinely be found, offering consumers an easy way to transfer pictures, movies, music and data from one to another.
Every weird harmonic overtone in the doctor-patient relationship begins to resonate, from the military ("I'm in charge here!") to the professional ("I certainly do know what I'm doing!") to the collegial ("Anyway, we're in this together!") to the parental ("But you're MY baby!").
One of these begins to resonate with crimes happening in the present, and Rebus starts to see a way in which he can become useful again – useful as a detective, which is the only thing he's ever wanted in life.
Next to the cavity is a flimsy mechanical beam, which begins to resonate under pressure from the bouncing pump waves and in doing so reduces the pump photons' energy.
