If you are watching the political shows this weekend, that could be sound advice.
I thought we could be sound and aggressive and mistake-free and do even more.
So by the time the alarm could be sounded on the beach, it would probably be too late anyway.
Mayor Stack said officials were considering installing call boxes at the station, so an alarm could be sounded even if no one was in the building.
If any of these premises reared up on my television screen, I'd change the channel before the first canned snicker could be sounded.
"And so the pilot could be sound asleep on re-entry and it didn't matter what angle it hit coming back into the Earth's atmosphere".
This is perhaps an overstatement, since the fictional framework, once adopted, ceased to be of primary importance and served instead as a social microcosm within which a tone at once grave, good-humoured, and flexible could be sounded.
David Wilcove, an ecologist at Princeton and the author of "No Way Home: The Decline of the World's Great Animal Migrations" (Island Press, 2007), thinks storytelling about great migrations could be sound strategy.
I tell him how Branson had described Rutan's shuttlecock mechanism as "foolproof", and said that the pilot could be "sound asleep on re-entry and it didn't matter".
Another concern about the famous argument about motives is how it could be sound.
