Mr Abe's current emphasis on stamping out amakudari suggests a tin ear for the public mood.
Stuffed shirts with a tin ear have no place in the ultra-high net worth advisory industry.
Even Starr's supporters say he has a political tin ear, but this deeply religious man shows flashes of humor.
Does Twitter have a tin ear, or did they have guidance from Apple?
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Secretary Rice had another testy exchange with California Democrat Barbara Boxer, who accused the Bush administration of having a tin ear.
But the president has displayed a tin ear for what Americans want.
Today it may seem strange she would entrust them to the man now conventionally regarded as a hidebound reformer with a tin ear.
This administration seems to have a tin ear when it comes to the Middle East, and that tin ear is making us less safe.
Since the announcement of Putin's return for a third presidential term 12 months ago, Putin and the Kremlin have demonstrated a remarkably tin ear.
Japan has often displayed a tin ear to South Korean sensitivities over the island, which it calls Takeshima, having acquired it in the process of annexing Korea.
Since his installation at the commission last fall, he has repeatedly displayed a tin ear politically and insensitivity, to put it charitably, to the appearance of impropriety.
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Japanese executives working overseas rarely immerse themselves in local cultures and often display a tin ear when attempting to strike notes that resonate with their target geographic markets.
Mr Cameron urged the prime minister to show more leadership on the issue, saying he had demonstrated a "tin ear" over the amount of public anger and calls for immediate reform.
Goldman Sachs showed a typical tin ear by withdrawing its sponsorship of a fund-raiser for a credit union (financial co-operative) on November 3rd because it planned to honour Occupy Wall Street.
This political tin ear is combined with peculiar priorities.
But for all its occasional tin ear, "Dr Phil" dialogue, its contrivances and shortcuts, this remains a fundamentally sound and solid entertainment with a deep-rooted conviction that how we treat each other matters.
But the problem is one is no other Republican got in the act and two Katherine Harris apparently has a tin ear when it comes to that, she never heard any of the pleas or at least she didn't act on them.
His recent decision (just after the Supreme Court had said it would review whether he could continue to keep secret the deliberations of his energy task-force) to use a government jet to take Justice Antonin Scalia and a bunch of Mr Cheney's oil-business buddies duck-shooting only reinforces the impression that he has a tin ear for politics.
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Since his installation at the Commission last Fall, he has repeatedly displayed a tin-ear politically and insensitivity, to put it charitably, to the appearance of impropriety.
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