But the women were determined to convey the effect of three trumpets.
The rest of the performers were solo acts, and nearly all were determined to convey unmediated sincerity.
Her coloratura roulades conveyed emotional ambiguity, the coquettish facade of a kept woman determined to convey pride and sexual allure, while her shame lurks just below the surface.
This remarkable man has found himself a large and sometimes powerful audience, and he is determined to convey some very practical, big-picture warnings to the more efficacious members of that audience before they get us all into terrible trouble.
That failure has fed a growing sense of frustration among officials, who have seemed determined to convey that NATO is engaged, not in a campaign to degrade the Qaddafi government's fighting ability, but in willful brutality against ordinary Libyans.
Flood-stricken communities have seen visits in recent days from a phalanx of federal officials, who have seemed determined to convey a level of attentiveness that was notably absent after Hurricane Katrina.
In this analysis, every word in every response was considered for analysis; only the responses determined to convey no meaning were removed.
A glance at Amazon indicates one of the titles "thrown away" was Under Siege: The BBC in the Crisis Years, while Seaton's academic profile still has the title as Holding the Line; which together suggest the BBC is determined to resist anything conveying the idea of it as beleaguered – even 25-40 years ago. 25-40 years ago
In the weeks and months ahead, Mr. Gore's political fate will be determined by his ability to convey that conviction without shouting, waving his arms or relentlessly flailing his opponent and the public with yet another bunch of impeccably bundled facts.
She noted that the NGOs appeared to be well ahead of the companies in determining how and what messages to convey in rural mining regions.
