drumbeat

It's surreal looking at Google News and what hits the headlines is the drumbeat towards some type of deal at Copenhagen with this scandal hardly being discussed at all.

If we agree that having the same drumbeat is plagiarism, the same thing could happen to music.

Without the constant drumbeat of change, there's no need for new anything.

So I think the drumbeat has to do with the 'pendulum' being perceived to be too much in the 'wealthy' phase.

I lived and cycled in London the last 3 years, and there is a steady drumbeat of cycling improvements at all levels.

The drumbeat has started and harrowing possibilities are being offered.

But it seems out of place and immature to sound that drumbeat on this holiday, like an atheist who feels compelled to demonstrate outside of churches on Christmas.

That drumbeat -- inescapably present in American culture as well as Japanese -- is heard clearly by both girls and boys, and shapes their attitudes about gender roles.

I don't get to take another artist's song, add an extra drumbeat and release it as my own without regard to the license of that original.

> To history's steady drumbeat, a human population growing in numbers, per capita consumption and economic inequity has altered or destroyed natural habitats.

The altercations in the park, the rerouted walks to school, the aggravations of daily life are the lower end of a continuum – a dull drumbeat that occasionally crescendos into violent confrontation and even social conflagration.

There is this continuous drumbeat that we can't upgrade rural America to optic fiber for instance, although Apple has the cash to do it and surely it has to be a better investment than negative interest rate bonds.

Has anyone else noticed the drumbeat ramping up in earnest for the next "War on fill-in-the-blank"?

The "I am Charlie" drumbeat is a demonstration of unity that everyone is the same here regardless of what side you are on.