What a far cry from Sept. 20, 1995, when Mr. Allen presided over another crowded meeting to announce that the AT&T Corporation was splitting itself into three companies.

Faintly, in the distance and coming nearer, growing louder, the two-tone cry of a siren announced the imminent arrival of the ambulance.

We kept to our westerly course for several hours when the lookout's cry announced a sail.

A cry and thud from below announced that Alfred, as usual, had come to grief.

As organisations involved in the sector have said, on the basis of data provided by the Commission, what was agreed in the memorandum has led to exports increasing from 49% in 2004 to the 318% projected for 2005, a far cry from the 8, 10 12.5% figures announced.

All this is quite modest, and a far cry from the actual needs of the political project announced by the European decision-makers in the Council, in the Commission and also here in Parliament.

Unnerved by this, I prodded his scalp with increasing agitation, until a sudden cry from the patient announced that I had discovered the bullet.

A sudden cry announced the rocking of some of the eggs.

David Suzuki notes that from our first cry announcing our arrival on earth to our very last sigh at the moment of death, our need for air is absolute.