1.   Born in Hong Kong, he is an internationalist, and virtually up to his resignation was trumpeting the virtues of Pepsi as its chief global spokesman.

2.   After trumpeting the virtues of tax-free shopping, he assumed the role of the everyday shopper, albeit one followed by bodyguards and photographers.

3.   But history rarely looks kindly on societies that trumpet their virtues and ignore their failings.

4.   Over the past few months, as the market has tanked, financial planners have been trumpeting the virtues of diversification.

5.   Poets, painters and philosophers trumpeted the virtues of the wilderness and the beauty of the river, and along the way the industrialists built their railroads and factories.

6.   Sensitive to criticism of gas-gulping excess, Ford has avoided trumpeting any virtues of its new behemoth at auto shows.