Sentence examples for soundings from inspiring English sources

Al Khelaifi attempted unsuccessfully to lure Wenger from Arsenal in the summer of 2011 and further soundings were taken towards the end of last season, with Wenger insistent that he respects his contracts.

Al-Khelaifi tried unsuccessfully to take Wenger from Arsenal in the summer of 2011 and further soundings towards the end of last season once again failed to turn his head.

McConnell schooled Cruz this week, Howard Fineman wrote in the Huffington Post: McConnell isolated and neutralized Cruz by meeting quietly and carefully with small groups of GOP senators over the last week, and then took soundings at lunches and conferences -- all the while essentially working around Cruz and his handful of top lieutenants.

Conceding that secret "soundings" among the legal profession will no longer be feasible, the government says that it will set up an independent body to make judicial appointments.

Since then he has failed to attend half the annual meetings of the South Pacific Forum, traditionally the place for the leaders of Australia and New Zealand to take soundings from around the region.

Soundings taken in recent weeks show most Iraqis still determined to create a new Iraq.

If these "soundings" yield a clear-cut heir apparent, the firm may proceed straight to a coronation vote where the new leader is rubber-stamped.If there are a few strong contenders, the process starts to resemble a political campaign.

Polls show a closer race this time, with the president leading by an average of 4.5 points in recent soundings.

Ms McDonough took soundings in her caucus, and emerged with the idea of going to the barricades at the April summit.

It shows the Moyes banner – "The Chosen One" – amid a stormy sky and a Scottish voice sounding close to disgusted.

The book's last sequence, Lucinda's Way, is the sweetest – a fond remembrance of a lovely sounding marriage, one in which she never threw away a scrap of his writing "without kissing it first", and in which Reid, as he puts it, was "second always to you, the dashing heroine".