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But as he spoke, his voice was drowned out by the muezzin's call to prayer - we were next to a mosque, and he scurried off.

She seemed to be shouting to him, but her voice was drowned out by the roaring of the train.

While Mr. Hatoyama has said he wants to maintain the two nations' security alliance, his voice has often been drowned out by the din.

It is all but drowned out by the snaps and the crackles and pops of what is by any standard a primitive recording.

Drawing sensible conclusions is harder still in India where national issues are all but drowned out in a cacophony of local politics.

Saxophone music from a computer in the classroom, drowned out a moment ago by this call-and-response, suddenly seems loud.

Duo cried out, begging the boy to stop, but his voice was drowned out by the rain and the wind; by the echoes.

First, there was the positive employment report last Friday, largely drowned out by Standard &Poor's downgrade of America's credit rating.

Our voices are simply drowned out in the general tumult and clamor.

While those words still resonate with many farmers and shoppers today, however, they were drowned out for decades by famine.

In Africa, though, arguments over empty calories are mostly drowned out by concerns of too few available calories of any kind.

How does it avoid being drowned out in an a noisy cacophony of ever-more-vital conversations?

The uproar over the labour dispute has drowned out Vale's insistence that it has kept all its "net benefit" commitments.

The soft jazz from the iPod that has been Rose's only company in the kitchen is now drowned out by happy talk on our side of the counter.

Too often, he felt, the beautiful moments of his life were drowned out by a cacophony of self-consciousness and anxiety.

The children's shouts drowned out the music.

But those voices deserve to be drowned out by applause for the bolt of imagination that has lit up Eriksson's list of names.

As soon as Admiral Hunter figures you're ready, Jack was about to tell him, when hooters drowned out the thought.

My money worries drowned out most of what I heard at the weekend seminar.

Engines roared to life all around Jack. Cars, trucks, motorcycles, until the noise drowned out the chattering guns.

I tried to cry, but the crowd shouts drowned out the sound of my voice, they cannot hear.

The complaints of locals may just be drowned out for the time being.

Both the speaker and his speech were drowned out by the disapproval of the crowd.

The explosion of bombs outside his Iraq home had drowned out the buzz around YouTube, MySpace ( NWS), and the new, user-generated Internet.

Protesters' chants drowned out comments to reporters by the outgoing Exco convenor, Dr Chung Sze-yuen, yesterday.

The sound of the rainstorm drowned out the little girl's cry for help .

Its old admirers may feel sad that its charms are no longer theirs alone. Any moans will be drowned out by applause, though.

The band drowned (out) our conversation so we sat and said nothing.

Lumiere's last sentence is drowned out by the very loud growl of Beast. Lumiere looks down, dejected.

They booed so loudly that Japan's national anthem was drowned out, but the biggest outpouring of jeers came with the final whistle.

The noise from the traffic drowned out the music from the odeum so that the Shanghai Odeum need to be moved.

This message was drowned out by the much louder chorus of voices rising to declare Strauss-Kahn a victim.

This infighting and hesitancy signal a lack of commitment that has drowned out Mr Obama's warlike rhetoric.

His attempts to amplify his remarks were drowned out by the jeers of the audience.

The rain hammering against my hood sounded unusually loud, too, but soon the roar of the engine drowned out everything else.

But mistrust of the Pakistani intelligence services drowned out that fear.

His voice was drowned out by the noise made by a gang of rowdies.

I drowned out all my sense with the sound of its beating.

The roar of the motor drowned out the distant noises of battle.

But they were drowned out by the loud minority who had really lost their cool.

In some countries, my voice would have been drowned out. Maybe even stamped out.

Their screams of excitement all but drowned out the music .

Applause from a handful of viewers was drowned out by booing at the end.

The band drowned out their conversation.

The mine was drowned out by the recent flood.

The speech of the hostess was drowned out by applauses.

The few supporters are drowned out.

Noise in the channel, for example static on a phone line, means that bits of information get drowned out.

Screams that were drowned out by the passing train