For many Ghanaians, contradiction like this make the Government's arguments ring hollow.

These arguments ring hollow because they misunderstand the mode of responsibility in question.

But unless Congress refuses to go along with the Administration's callousness, that argument may ring terribly hollow.

But the angels' arguments no longer rang true to him.

The arguments she had adduced rang true.

"For me, suddenly all the old arguments ring hollow," said Representative Chet Edwards, Democrat of Texas.

Until Ms. Tyson's party is willing to address it in a meaningful way, her arguments will ring hollow to the many left behind by the economic expansion.

But for Father Aristide's supporters, concentrated among the 70 percent of the population that remains Creole-speaking, illiterate and desperately poor, such arguments ring hollow.

But that argument never rang true.

To the mothers, that argument rang hollow.