1.   But Buchanan also struck a tone of conciliation and even innocence, saying he should not be treated as a pariah because he has raised some difficult issues.

2.   But Holbrooke does not strike a tone of false modesty or of self-importance in his book.

3.   Instead, the Cabinet apparently overruled Hogg and decided that no further measures were necessary, striking a tone that seemed suddenly sanguine.

4.   Peter Gladding, a Key West commercial fisherman, tried to strike a tone of compromise.

5.   Sharaa also struck a tone of reconciliation.

6.   So once a tone is struck, it starts to die away.

7.   Spirits were raised, a perfect tone struck.

8.   That comment precisely strikes the tone with which Williams has gone about his work in his first season in Atlanta.

9.   The decision struck a tone that had not been heard from the Court in many years.

10.   Their reviews struck a tone of hostility and aggression that many people here found appalling.