11.   To American ears that may sound like an extremist position on the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, which begins Friday in Manila with the opening of ministerial meetings.

12.   To American ears, this familiar pattern identifies a World Wide Web site on the Internet.

13.   To an American ear she may sound prone to naive homilies, but it is hard to dismiss what she went through.

14.   To an American ear, that sounds like ordinary feel-good political rhetoric.

15.   To the American ear, that sounded impossible, given the inconsistencies of pitching, but the coaches were serious.

16.   To be sure, in normal conversation at home or with friends, Japanese women sound normal to an American ear.

17.   What Rome had to say about the United States swim team in the past seven days was not necessarily Verdi to the American ear.

18.   Will this provocative London hit translate for American ears?

19.   Yet amid the confusion, world music has never been less foreign to American ears.

20.   Once news of the proposal reached American ears, all hell broke loose in the U.S., the self-styled advocate of world liberty and democracy.