More important, the debates, although rooted in picayune state politics, did articulate resounding national issues.
While the book has sparked debate about how to manage the issue, the resounding conclusion from progressive economists to opportunistic bankers is that a widening disparity between the rich and poor does indeed exist.
After the meeting, the governors issued a resounding defense of the BBC, claiming that its coverage of the Iraq war had been impartial, and that "Today" had acted in the public interest in running Gilligan's story about the dossier.
In a speech in March honoring veterans and the Reserve Officers Training Corps program at the University of Southern California, Mr. Petraeus issued a resounding mea culpa, saying, "how deeply I regret — and apologize for — the circumstances that led me to resign from the C.I.A. and caused such pain for my family, friends and supporters".
With all six of his novels and a compendium of short stories recently re-issued to resounding acclaim in celebration of his 90th birthday, a more grandiloquent observation might be expected of this distinguished veteran of American letters and legendary editor from the golden age of the New Yorker.
To its detriment, "Billy Lynn" shies away from issuing many resounding takeaways about the horrors of war.
Responding to several petitions on its "We The People" petition platform, the White House on Tuesday issued a resounding condemnation of the controversial Kansas-based group, the Westboro Baptist Church.
Take the Times the other morning: a resounding letter headed "Awareness of Issues Asked," a studious appeal to protect forest preserves- an indignant attack by a Gaines Dog Research man on the superstition that dog days are associated with hydrophobia...and a letter from a reader in Monroe, N. Y. (transplanted milkweed).
While in recent decades Democrats have taken election defeats as incentives to run right, it should be harder for them to do so after so many resounding victories for bread-and-butter issues at the polls.
A resounding, "Maybe?" "If there was any constitutional issue resolved by the Civil War, it is that there is no right to secede.
