1.   As children are born and die and menfolk are torn away, their parallel lives are two notes in the same resonant chord.

2.   But none of them struck the same chord as the case of Kiyoteru Okouchi, because of his letter and his diary.

3.   His two lead guitar breaks, still on the same two chords, are full of woozy trills, dramatic tremolos, fast curlicues and note-bending meltdowns.

4.   So I started again and on the exact same chord, I blanked out again.

5.   The manager of the restaurant was quoted as saying that the history of the Nazis simply did not strike the same chord in Taiwan as in Europe.

6.   The same old chords in the same old order were taken not as boringly repetitive but as bearers of a life-giving rhythm.

7.   The sheriff, Larry L. Colley, struck the same chord.

8.   Putin castigated the media for having served as a weapon in the hands of business tycoons, and Media Minister Mikhail Lesin struck the same chord Thursday.

9.   Over in the House of Representatives, chairman Rep. Floyd Spence of the National Security Committee struck almost precisely the same chord.