1.   The health minister seems to be making all the right noises.

2.   He was making all the right noises about multi-party democracy and human rights.

3.   Yes, make the right noises.

4.   Like paying lip service, making all the right noises possesses just enough color to be memorable and yet not so much color as to cloy.

5.   One can assume that the new priest, in response, made all the right noises.

6.   Schroder, who sits on the supervisory board of Volkswagen and likes Cuban cigars, is cozy with businessmen and makes the right noises about reforming welfare and taxes.

7.   The glass is at least half full, and there is a new spirit in which people are making the right noises.

8.   This government is making the right noises, but has yet to demonstrate that it has the political will to change.

9.   The Barcelona Declaration makes the right noises about continued dialogue and co-operation, but the region is urgently in need of more than lip service.

10.   The problem continues because despite the right noises being made by everyone there are still too few visible signs of progress and many essential projects are hanging fire.