The phrase
"to beat that drum" means to continuously talk about something or express a strong opinion in order to make it known or convince others of its importance.
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As long as educators and their constituents see an imperfect system that cries out for improvements, school reformers will be at the front ranks
beating a drum for changes.
Everywhere you go, it seems legal tech experts
beat the drum of going paperless and the overwhelming advantages of paperless offices.
The union has been
beating the drum on this one for some time, with a statewide radio ad campaign that launched today and a companion print ad scheduled to appear tomorrow.
With administrators and school board members,
beat the drum about the need for tech in schools.
I have to
keep beating this drum: weight loss is NEVER a big enough motivation to eat healthy and exercise forever.
My goal has been and always surrounds the notion that we need a personal voice and to
just beat our drum.
So it was never our purpose to
go beat the drum and hire PR people and really get a lot of links and so forth.
I've been
beating these drums for years, and I've worked with dozens of teams to prove that they can and do work in legal.
What if you could focus on making more suitable decisions for yourself rather than
beating the drum of the past?
To
beat the drum again: wishing for weight loss isn't enough to inspire permanent habit changes.
«I can
beat the drum at Google, but we have 600 attorneys who make decisions on who we hire — not all of it is up to me.»
Though some of the selected films have yet to offer more than a brief description and photo — such as Jean - Marc Vallee's opener «Demolition» or Michael Moore's stealth project «Where to Invade Next» — others are
beating the drum with full - on trailers.
In an era of localism and regional autonomy, today's SBC leaders face an increasingly difficult challenge
in beating the drum for denominational loyalty.
In the meantime, Teitelbaum doesn't expect the community to
stop beating the drums for increased federal support to reverse the alleged dearth of scientists and engineers.
Or maybe your teenager is
still beating the drum about using the car to go out on a school night; you could say «What did I say?»
Facebook's late Friday disclosure that a data analytics company with ties to the Trump campaign improperly obtained — and then failed to destroy — the private data of 50 million users is generating more unwanted attention from politicians, some of whom were
already beating the drums of regulation in the company's direction.
The fact is it was before any major periodical in New York State
started beating the drum for Speaker Silver to resign, including the NYT, or the NYP, or the NYDN.
(See, I'm by no means the only one out
there beating the drum for financial independence instead of retirement!)
(CNN)- As politicians in Israel and the United
States beat the drums for war on Iran, it is worth remembering that Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, is on record against nuclear weapons.
Harper is spending considerable political
energy beating the drums of war against terrorists, and introducing a far - reaching, and much condemned, bill aimed at restricting -LSB-...]
And one may, without being unpleasant about it, note that the mainstream media and the scientific establishment
who beat the drums for the necessity of killing embryos in order, they said, to find cures for all kinds of illnesses, along with politicians who agitated for multibillion - dollar referendums in California, Missouri, and New Jersey, were, not to put too fine a point on it, dead wrong.
Classsical Calvinism fails to follow this principle explains why so many Reformed Evangelicals
stridently beat the drum for the Ten Commandmants, while any teaching on the Beatitudes is notable for its absense.
Her brother and the Baindla priests follow her, and the
Magidas beat drum in front of her.
As long ago as last August, when Unbridled broke his maiden at Arlington Park, winning by 10 1/2 lengths, Nafzger
began beating the drums, announcing to his stable help, «This is our ticket to the Kentucky Derby.»
While you and your child march around the
room beating a drum, you can also chat with some of the other moms and dads in the class and arrange coffee dates, playdates, and birthday parties.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has been
beating the drum lately in an attempt to pressure lawmakers to return contributions from DeLay and the various campaign committees he controls.
I made a point of checking Stephen Kinnock's social media because he's
usually beating the drum on steel but nothing on this particular issue.
Even with Faux
News beating the drum 24/7, the Tea Parties failed to attract even a tiny segment of the American people.
And though he's in the Senate minority, Democrat Daniel Squadron
also beats the drum loudly on election law reforms.
In ancient China people
traditionally beat drums and banged on pots to scare off the «heavenly dog» believed to be devouring the sun.
I won't
beat the drum too hard, but ideally, if you're getting your good animal proteins that are pasteurized, you've got your digestion actually working, you're gonna get a lot more minerals, trace nutrients.