While the Self-Defense Forces have been wooing the public for years, they've sounded more trumpets recently.
The hypocrisy extends to the commentariat who have been busting their cheeks blowing their populist trumpets.
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Facebook trumpets that it had 901m average monthly users in the first quarter of 2012.
Drum machines and turntables had replaced trumpets and trombones as the instruments of choice.
Calderon's administration trumpets his arrest and others, and vows to keep fighting the cartels.
Most of the multi-billion-pound investment programme that it trumpets is routine maintenance rather than upgrading.
India's Hindu-nationalist-led government trumpets its nuclear prowess as a source of Hindu and national pride.
This is far below the nonsensical 13% number the National Retail Federation (NRF) trumpets to gullible journalists.
When Promise finally put down his wilted copy of the Wall Street Journal, there were no trumpets.
Note the stirring battle depicted in the Overture, where trumpets blare and drums pound frenzied, syncopated rhythms.
Trumpets and robes are fine, but in the present and the future you will need something more.
The ancient Roman poet Ovid is best known for his poem, Metamorphoses, which trumpets change and transformation.
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Gore trumpets that he will reduce the marriage penalty by increasing the standard deduction for married couples.
Philip Morris, for example, trumpets its smoking prevention programme for youngsters on the homepage of its website.
As a candidate, Mr Romney trumpets his 30 years of experience in business.
Paul's in the morning, the queen was heralded by a fanfare of trumpets and cheered by thousands of onlookers.
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Even as the Clinton administration trumpets the good news, it is being cautious.
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There would be feathers and fur, gold and jewels, anthems and trumpets.
Normally when a biotech says its study failed but then trumpets safety results, investors are right to think the company is toast.
No trumpets, prize money, or presidential call, and all this extra time with no clued as to what to do with it.
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Mr Quayle trumpets his endorsement by Senator Jon Kyl, a conservative icon.
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Atop cupolas, winged angels, hair in tresses, hark and blow trumpets.
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Mr Bo trumpets the importance of state-owned enterprises, traditional socialist values and the inspirational power of Mao-era songs while getting tough on organised crime.
Blues musicians used the trumpets and trombones left over from wartime music to mimic the sound of their voices, literally singing out their pain through their instruments.
"We're not Clear Channel, " trumpets the station's on-air IDs -- a shot at its powerful competitor, which owns six Columbus stations, including the market leader.
Throughout the Middle Ages (pre-1430) and Renaissance (ca. 1430-1600), trumpets retained their traditional military and ceremonial functions: they were used mainly for signals and fanfares.
In their annual Book of China's Society, the researchers paint a picture that is a far cry from the harmonious society the country's leadership trumpets.
Congressman Dan Burton, an Indiana Republican, wondered why a company that trumpets the openness of the Internet would work on behalf of Beijing to restrict it.
And the New York Post trumpets, All hail the great Helen Mirren, who delivers the performance of a lifetime in Frears' witty, touching and engrossing film.
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