Examples of soundings

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The outward soundings had not been very successful.
As they went through their management tasks schools took soundings through their local groups, through professional associations, from in-service trainers and from advisers and inspectors.
On the following morning a number of soundings were taken.
He takes soundings, calculates the impact of magnetism, the movements of the sea (as currents and tides), and the sideways drift (leeway).
Brief soundings illustrate the relative radicalism of the episcopate's plans.
However, the soundings were not going well - at many of the sites they had failed to detect bottom echoes.
Eustace's covert soundings seem to corroborate the existence of this quickening desire to seize the land.
Unfortunately, except close to the coastal margin of the ice sheet, the soundings failed to give any returns from the bottom.
All informal soundings suggest the opposite.
Here, as in the preceding sections, there is still much research to be done, and the author hopes this survey will provoke others to take deeper soundings.
On the return journey he was able to complete the soundings and thus achieve the first and remarkably detailed profile of the ice and sub-glacial terrain.
Mayers shares his knowledge of how a shipmaster in the sixteenth century made soundings, how he measured latitude, and to what extent he would have been able to estimate longitude.
I suggest that we take soundings at the opening of business tomorrow morning to see if we can reconcile the different preferences that have been expressed here this afternoon.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
I understand that the results of soundings of financial institutions have shown no lack of willingness.
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