The leader sounded as if he wasn't opposed to that idea.

But both leaders sounded eager for the challenge.

Six months ago, political leaders around the New York City region were sounding alarms.

As they reached the open, the leaders sounded their war cries and broke into a dead run.

The cavalry leader sounded more serious than usual as he gave his orders.

Protestant leaders sounded pessimistic during a break in the talks this evening.

And recently, evangelical leaders in the United States sounded an alarm over "an epidemic of young people leaving."

"But at best, leaders sometimes sounded ambiguous and they never used their moral power to condemn or stop the massacres," he said.

With that in mind, Iraq's Shiite leaders sounded a conciliatory tone.

American leaders sound more defensive, more worried about where changes in the familiar cold war landscape could lead.