In the meantime, these people are being subjected to a daily drumbeat from Beijing.

Just as last fall's prediction of an uprising was overstated, however, this season's calm masks the daily drumbeat of violence on Rikers.

It found the reports were "disastrously one-sided," giving the president a "daily drumbeat" of sensational headlines.

Republican leaders kept up a daily drumbeat of attack against the President, although no consensus formed this week in the minority party about what budget steps to favor.

An almost daily drumbeat of endorsements has been encouraged - but not always choreographed - by the Governors' advisers.

Denis Hamill considers Fahrenheit 9/11 to be a "corrective to the daily drumbeat of right-wing talk radio."

The warning was one more in an almost daily drumbeat of official worries about consumer excesses, both in spending and in borrowing.

In the interview, Mr. Cortines was asked how he reacted to the Mayor's daily drumbeat of criticisms.

The almost daily drumbeat of reports and "expert commentary" about a so-called jobless recovery prompts the question, "What's gone wrong with the labor market?"

There has been no reprieve from the daily drumbeat of kidnappings and car bombings.