"If anyone told me five years ago that I'd be turning down a nomination for governor, I'd laugh," said the Nassau County Comptroller, Peter T. King, who was sounded out on Sunday for the second time by Joseph N. Mondello, the Nassau Republican chairman.
Another highly placed German official said the Russians' anti-terrorist stance appeared to be part of "the new look" under Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, and said other Western European governments had been sounded out on the possibility of cooperation.
Scriptwriters were sounded out and projects embarked on, but Spooks sailed on from strength to strength.
All 148 members were sounded out.
Archives|WASHINGTON TO CALL POWERS TO DISCUSS ACCORD WITH CHINA; Seeks Action on the Plan of 1921 to Consider Surrender of Extra-Territoriality. PARLEYS HAVE BEGUN Tokio and London Are Now Being Sounded on Carrying Out of Washington Treaties.
WASHINGTON TO CALL POWERS TO DISCUSS ACCORD WITH CHINA; Seeks Action on the Plan of 1921 to Consider Surrender of Extra-Territoriality. PARLEYS HAVE BEGUN Tokio and London Are Now Being Sounded on Carrying Out of Washington Treaties.
After a one-minute countdown and much jockeying for position, the starting signal was sounded and the boats set out on a circuitous course that negotiated four or five marks and basically circumnavigated the float.
People familiar with the meetings who insisted on anonymity because they were confidential said the men sounded out the lawmakers on potential vice-presidential names.
A delegation from the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) was in Brussels on Monday and sounded out the European Commission about what Downing Street wanted because they have not been told.
He was attempting to sound out public opinion on a subject upon which the President was still reluctant to commit himself publicly.
That is why the President's advisers were sent there to sound out public opinion on bombing Iraq, to be greeted by noisy demonstrations, and it is why a George W. Bush or a Steve Forbes might well turn to Kasich as a running mate.
