Despite vast differences in their managerial style, executives' rhetoric carries a similar refrain: Be true to yourself.

Though the Government's opening statement was an orderly account of the cases, stressing their similar refrains, the defense lawyer was discursive.

Speech after speech echoed a similar refrain, that we are still here.

A similar refrain is found in the "Battle Hymn of the Republic," which affirms in successive verses that "Our God," or "His Truth."

If any of this sounds familiar, it is because a similar refrain was heard from the Reinsdorf-owned Chicago Bulls when Michael Jordan's back-room gambling became public knowledge in 1993.

The high-tech plan being bid now has many skeptics, who say they have heard a similar refrain from the government before.

The skit "W Ballz" on his album Doggystyle also references the ending refrain of the song with a similar refrain using different lyrics.

A similar refrain could be heard all over New York City yesterday.

Many years later when another scientific institution was founded in Britain, the British Association for the Advancement of Science, a similar refrain was still to be heard.

Frequently he would interject a similar refrain in thoughtful letters to his department heads when passing down decisions or judgments on matters of government business.