1.   He hates speaking over the phone.

2.   The Prime Minister belched into a lace handkerchief and began speaking over the slow chanting of his name.

3.   From the Creation of the World to Doomsday itself, he spoke them over, and sometimes he would recite in French.

4.   The driver spoke over his shoulder.

5.   As the advance team member spoke over a campaign-issued cell phone, protesters clamored in the background.

6.   Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese Nobel Peace laureate, spoke over a noisy phone line from her Rangoon headquarters in mid-January.

7.   Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese Nobel Peace laureate, spoke over a noisy phone line from her Rangoon headquarters.

8.   Beneath the single, flickering bulb in his medical examination room, Dr. Rommel Martinez Cabeza spoke over the din from the street a few feet away.

9.   - another poke at his ethnic identity - and it was difficult to hear him speak over their incessant jeers.

10.   A camouflage-clad officer spoke over the coffin.