Behind him, chanting to the beat of a drum, would stream 200-300 laymen, monks and nuns, walking across Cambodia for peace.

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They sang as they dug, their tuneless songs keeping time to the beat of a cooking pot drum.

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But, interpreted as a general call for tax reform, the Forbes drum-beat is likely to attract a growing band of followers.

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So, you've got a little drum beat going and you'd like to spice it up with a melody.

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Compton-Rock snaps pictures while dancing to the beat and tapping on a nearby African drum.

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Today was also the day that the mood music moved from the pessimistic drum beat of the opening days to a more determined rhythm around solutions and how to move forward.

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Truth be told, Silicon Valley is another planet with a different set of rules and a complex cabal that marches to the beat of its own drum.

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Officers who let peers be dispatched to time-intensive calls in their beat and minutes later came off of the call they were working, or who magically happened to drum up a car stop when dispatch was trying to send them to a call, were murmured about in the locker room.

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