AU Commissioner for Political Affairs Julia Dolly Joiner has experienced the frustration of seeing high-sounding declarations adopted and then forgotten.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

I just thought it was most amazing sounding thing. It sounded like nothing I'd ever heard before,I guess."

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has been sounding the alarm on bluefin tuna for decades.

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

"I got the idea for the multi-track from my mom, who said,'You know,Lester, you sound like everybody else and everybody else is sounding like you.

VOA: standard.2009.08.14

But Bangkok is looking and sounding increasingly like a war zone.

VOA: standard.2010.05.15

"Pizza has been sounding really good and a Coca Cola,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.30

"This is a rough-and-tumble place and it's nice to come back to two people who care about me, who care about my success, who care about the difficulties I might be having either at work or at home and just to have two friends who are a sounding board."

VOA: standard.2010.08.07