| Although this task force may serve mainly as a sounding board for multicultural issues, it is still a helpful group. |
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| This was used as a technique to gauge interest and students in the local vocational school were a valuable sounding board. |
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| We also hope to connect local communities by providing a space and sounding board for existing social relationships. |
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| He didn't say much but he was an excellent sounding board on which to try out the veracity of the latest bit of political gossip. |
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| Less formally, it was designed to be the President's private think tank, sounding board and discussion group. |
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| In addition, the caucus will serve as a clearinghouse for information and a sounding board for ideas brought forth by the nursing community. |
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| He wrote many drafts of an impressive script and used me as a sounding board and reader. |
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| Better to use your family as a political sounding board than a focus group in a front room in Luton. |
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| Once you step back and ask these questions, it's wise to have a sounding board to bounce ideas off of. |
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| A sounding board on the ceiling at Notre Dame Basilica is at the root of a major local mystery. |
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| The Advisory Committee will act as a sounding board for the team in the identification and implementation of stock recovery measures. |
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| It is an independent body which has a valuable social function as well as a role in disseminating information and acting as a sounding board. |
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| The committee responded that it would act as an initial filter or sounding board for input on matters in which outside views were important. |
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| Part of a leader's job, of course, is to act as a sounding board for direct reports. |
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| These are times when we could use a sympathetic ear or a good sounding board. |
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| But on Friday, during the debate on the dreadful events in New York, the bear pit of partisanship was instantly transformed into a sounding board of sombre national unity. |
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| He does not act the part of a neutral modulator or passive sounding board. |
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| I think they're a very good representative sample to pull ideas from and to use as a sounding board. |
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| The chance to publish freely to the online community provides another sounding board for disgruntled, negligent or even malicious members of staff. |
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| Students provide the best sounding board for the relevance of material. |
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| His job is to provide the Prime Minister with a shoulder to lean on, to be a sounding board to consult and to act out his orders across the government. |
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| By the same token his republican bloodline saw him involved in the background of the peace process as both a negotiator and sounding board for the Government. |
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| Moreover, thinking of Elisabeth as a kind of sounding board whose reflection helps Descartes to clarify his thoughts leaves her with little independent intellectual life. |
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| Most coaches meet weekly with clients in person or by telephone, acting as a sounding board and providing structure, motivation and objective feedback. |
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| The writer, by way of comparison, depends upon his or her editor in the early stages of his or her career as a moderating influence, as a sounding board, and as a critic. |
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| It has served for more than thirty years as a unifying news portal, providing a communication medium and a sounding board for Canadian geoscientists. |
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| The original garland was hung on the sounding board of the pulpit, but the present garland now hangs on the church wall in the north-west corner of the Nave. |
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| He missed Russia and the Russian people the sounding board for his music, as he said. |
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| The wind played the wire against a branch like a bass fiddle, and my bedroom was the sounding board. |
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| He continues to plug away in his role as sounding board for his protégés. |
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| As a sounding board in a chaotically changing world, a taste of what is still possible, a leap into the dark, an encouragement to act, and a flight into the hazy borderland separating light and dark. |
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| In a number of calls with Valenti that took place in late 1963 and throughout 1964, Johnson displayed a range of moods, but Valenti was unvarying: always the booster, an eager acolyte, a sympathetic sounding board. |
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| To my mind, it should, first and foremost, be a worthwhile sounding board. |
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| Believes it can act as an advisory committee and a sounding board. |
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| It also assisted in establishing priorities for procurement, and acted as a critical sounding board for testing and evaluating new concepts and policies. |
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| As the EU pushes forward towards the adoption of a European Constitution, do you think the Indian institutional system could serve as a sounding board or even a model for Europe? |
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| It has to show this ability not to be merely a sounding board for the various businesses concerned, but to represent all those who cannot necessarily organise themselves. |
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| The Lead Director shall provide feedback to the Executive Chairman of the Board and act as a sounding board with respect to strategies, accountability, relationships and other issues. |
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| The team has also been a valuable sounding board for government departments as they encounter new challenges related to the legal duty to consult. |
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| As proposed during the information sessions, the external advisory board is not a decision-making body, but will act as a sounding board both for this document and the policy review process. |
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| As a professional in an advisory role, a financial planner has to be a good communicator, acting as a sounding board for the client and discussing various aspects of the client's personal, family and professional life. |
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| This Council of Elders is a valuable sounding board, helping us develop strategies to resolve Aboriginal issues to the benefit of all BC communities. |
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| Council advises on shaping policy, raising and debating issues, providing guidance, perspective and a sounding board for the trustees. |
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| He had a great ability to cut to the chase on all matters and, in addition to his work with the Tote, he was a great sounding board for me. |
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