Plans to create a special military medal for drone operators and cyberwarriors have been canceled. |
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Overhead, a drone whirred menacingly, and a helicopter gunship cruised the coast. |
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Every once in a while, a rat-a-tat of heavy rain would pelt the windows, drowning out the demanding drone of wind. |
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After being bundled into the air-raid shelter, we could hear the drone of aircraft passing over-head, on their way to bomb Belfast ship-yards. |
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An authoritative German voice crisped the air, asserting itself above the general drone. |
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In this trio setting, Singh's amplified tablas are the main focus, punching out loudly over a thin-sounding sarangi and a tanpura drone. |
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The track builds into a ringing guitar drone backed by the screeching sounds of Arne Ericsson sawing away at his electric-cello. |
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In the shadows behind him, an exquisitely dressed lady gracefully positions herself with a tambura and begins strumming a drone. |
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Rat-tailed maggots are the larvae of the drone fly and, in order to pupate the larvae, look for a dry place and start migrating. |
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It doesn't help that the musical backing is a five-minute drone of grating computerized noise. |
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My parents' Manchurian pear trees are now in full bloom and surrounded by the cheerful drone of bees doing bee-things. |
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The two voices behind him had continued in a constant drone since he got on. |
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And so it continues with only the occasional hand clap to lessen the interminable uninspiring drone. |
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Everything from tribal sounds, acid jazz, trip hop, and drone rock can be heard throughout the three albums. |
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What followed was flagrant musical bankruptcy and the insufferable drone of banal music. |
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Frescoes of demons and spirits writhe across the walls of its prayer halls, and the drone of absorbed monks fills dim rooms and corridors. |
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All of a sudden, the normal drone of the training room was shattered by peals of laughter! |
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It has been suggested the missile may have been fired from a remote-controlled drone. |
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A few of the other welcoming faces belonged to friends from my ancient past as a corporate drone. |
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While practicing on one of them, he noticed that mechanics of one of the keys, a high C, had gotten stuck, emitting a fixed drone. |
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The piece evolves into a meditative microsound exercise, as nearly sub-audible tones fluctuate about a louder drone that continues unabatedly. |
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Marcy felt her breath quicken, her heartbeat accelerate and crescendo in her ears to an overpowering drone. |
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The drone of generators providing power for the service temporarily replaced the omnipresent roar of heavy machinery. |
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He sighed heavily, listening to his father's monotone voice drone on and on about what he needed to do. |
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That way, nobody ever invites me to drone on endlessly about minor details of the Red Centre. |
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In principle, the steady drone of flat, slack sentences reproduces the demoralised world they depict, not the limits of the writer's talent. |
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He had been using a multirotor drone to spy on his neighbor through her apartment window. |
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As dusk falls on the song, instruments begin to nod off into sleep, leaving a multi-tracked breathy drone to induce a trance-like state. |
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Not one to be outdone, my mother in the adjacent room has met the sonic challenge with her power-tool drone. |
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The drone of aircraft propellers and thump of helicopter rotors made way for screaming auto engines and squealing tyres. |
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A music box plays reluctantly to introduce a menacing drone that dominates the piece despite the protests of a scraped guitar. |
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He lies on a tatami mat dressed in Japanese yutaka, the drone of a street matsuri outside his window. |
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The roaring drone continued as the jet doubled back and soared over us, dropping a series of small black torpedo-like objects. |
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Remote-controlled drone aircraft are successful, and model hobbyists have been flying them for years. |
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The familiar loops and fast punching drum samples cross-faded with a repetitive keyboard drone. |
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He sighted over the barrel of his Winchester and blew apart the skull of the drone nearest to him. |
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The howl of the wind did nothing to drone out the sound of her desperate cry. |
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I do this for a couple of weeks every year, get it out of my system, then go back to being a drone. |
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In the background, cameras whirred like demented bluebottles, adding their drone to the low buzz of conversation. |
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The warm, glowing drone of Oliveros' accordion breathes its way through a patchwork of chimes and the gentle fluting of the whistlebuoys. |
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With a nuclear ballistic missile against a drone, a near miss was counted as a hit. |
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It's set against a harmonium-like drone and electronic clinking, the sound of mason jars waltzing clumsily in a janitor's closet. |
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The predominant cockpit sound is of the slipstream, rather than the resonant drone of the radial engines. |
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I didn't have to hear a near constant drone about our all-powerful cricketers. |
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It is said the drone also keeps the vespiary clean, clearing away all rubbish and carrying out dead bodies. |
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After listening to the teacher drone on for about five minutes, she grew bored and began doodling in the margins of her paper. |
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The foreman on that building site was approached last week about it and I will continue to drone on about it until is has been sorted. |
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In that drone Harley heard an echo of the blues, but he also heard something deeper. |
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Thus the music feels bounded by the drone, that the drone is the undulating surface of a musical object. |
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Finally, her right hand slowed and then stopped, although her left hand continued the drone for a few notes before it, too fell still. |
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On a personal note, several of my most powerful dreams have involved a rising drone or chanting sound. |
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For example, you can select a small portion of a steady-state sound such as a drone or a gong roll. |
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It provided a tone that was rich with upper-end harmonics and a full bass from the drone strings. |
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There are two components other than the bag which set the Bagpipes from other instruments, the reed chanter and the drone pipes. |
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You also have the drone bee that doesn't do anything except fertilise the young queens. |
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It should have been a good line, but he sounded like a petulant drone with an overdeveloped sense of entitlement. |
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In an organum piece, a fragment of an older melody is slowed down to the point where it almost becomes a drone. |
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The attack was conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency using a pilotless drone aircraft firing hellfire missiles. |
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He avoided answering every question and produced an interminable drone to kill time and frustrate the interviewer. |
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Occupying every single empty seat in sight, the crowd's continuous drone echoed within the tall tent. |
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The silence outside. Living so close to Kennedy Airport, the sound of planes getting ready to land is a constant drone throughout the day. |
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And the thunder-like drone of its eight engines strikes fear into troops below. |
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The marching of our feet rings out in unison, an endless drone accompanied by the clattering hooves of the knights' horses. |
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Colonel Donovan could hear the resonating booms above the noisy drone of the plane's engine. |
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Noises such as the drone of cicadas, the crackling of branches, flies buzzing, and the calls of birds had drowned out in her thoughts. |
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We were silent for a few moments, the drone of the lesson buzzing like a fly in my ears. |
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The drone begins to sound similar to a vacuum cleaner sucking up all the surrounding life. |
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Tobias couldn't hear himself scream over the drone of planes and noise of the explosions rattling the earth all around him. |
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Even when warm and cruising on the motorway it gives off a drone, and tyre noise also intrudes. |
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She looked at it now, while she tuned out the monotonous drone of her teacher's ramblings. |
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So when I reach my classroom, I listen to the monotonous drone of the teacher. |
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Isabella listened to the drone of his monotonous voice, and did as he said. |
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Very few listened to the monotonous drone of the teacher as he explained proofs and parabolas. |
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This great change manifested itself in a sudden tiredness and slight nausea as the speaker's monotonous drone confirmed exactly the opposite. |
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Track two of this CD starts with a low drone and the sound of rain falling gently. |
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I missed my pigsty of a room, the drone of football practice after school, and everything else that had, before, made my life a living nightmare. |
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It's a darker, slow-moving swirl of bluesy guitar licks in a nebula of electronic debris and feedback drone. |
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Cantering herds of zebra, eland and roan antelope scatter then coalesce as we drone over them. |
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The strings drone and yawn as if they were the innards of some great machine that makes everything turn. |
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Along with his haywire fringe of Brillo pad hair, Wright's somnolent nasal drone is the single most recognizable thing about him. |
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The next occasion Bangkok heard the drone of Allied bombers was 19 December when the dock area was bombed at night. |
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I have been giving some thought as to how the annoying buzzing sound of model aircraft can be, to other listeners, a mere gentle drone? |
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It was a still and humid afternoon, with only the distant drone of the traffic on the M4 to bring sound to the tableau. |
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The Leonin pieces alternate ensemble choruses of chant with organum passages which feature a solo voice floating melodic lines over the drone. |
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He explained that a hive of bees consists of a queen bee, a few hundred drone bees and the remainder are workers. |
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Soon, the activity within the manor had subsided to an even drone. |
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It was arguably the most important target the American drone program had ever taken out. |
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Paul has since clarified that he would not, in fact, support drone use in normal criminal situations. |
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Indeed once the guitars come in and the band stoke up their mighty drone, the effect is that of an amped up Popul Vuh, the German band who soundtracked many Herzog films. |
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Carlisle writes that the Air Force would want a crew ratio of 10 to one for each drone orbit during normal everyday operations. |
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On several occasions, Pakistani officials tipped off Maulvi Nazir and his men about impending drone strikes. |
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Imagine a drone skimming above the ocean waves, steered by scientists on a research ship in the distance. |
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My brother hummed turbine noises, but the drone of thunder muted him. |
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Though the Hamas footage is likely genuine, the drone and its weapons appear to be little more than crudely built toys. |
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As she walked along the streets of Manhattan, the consistent drone of the cars fading into the background, she began to wonder about her going to New York in the first place. |
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Some mid-level Al Qaeda commanders reportedly have been killed by drone attacks there. |
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Employees strap a device to their heads and power a helicopter drone with their minds. |
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What ISIS can do with the drone, assuming one is in their hands, is an open question. |
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If somehow the Tsarnaev brothers were detected by a drone, would that be admissible in court? |
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While not offering any concrete solutions, he told journalists in Lahore that his government would not tolerate drone attacks. |
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He is the drone official, the bland-faced human-resources manager tasked with dropping the axe. |
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In other words, the air Force is saying that its drone force has been stretched to its limits. |
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Our plan to meet him early last year was undone when he was killed by a drone strike in the Korengal. |
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The influential al Qaeda propagandist, who was born in New Mexico, died in a U.S. drone strike later that year. |
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She was always good at repetition, at combining melody and harmony and rolling them over into country drone, but Rawlings is replaced here on half the tracks by a fiddle. |
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Across the Channel the night thundered with the drone of 1,700 planes. |
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A drone strike killed al Libi on June 4, 2012, near Mir Ali in North Waziristan. |
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Gore, on the other hand, is a drone, a slogger, a guy who just doesn't understand how the new, entrepreneurial, highly liquid, exit-strategy economy works. |
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Masses of mankind arose from inexpensive seating, emitting a drone of noise, noises, actually, as small groups of people conversed about a number of subjects. |
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The drone of the poker machines, roulette wheels and craps tables is punctuated by the bleeps, trills and occasional rattling of coins from the one-armed bandits. |
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The songs are monophonic, with harmony taking the form of a drone. |
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Again the group chose a rather fast tempo, which with the bagpipe-like drone in the bass parts, gave this movement the lilt of an improvised country dance. |
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GoPro hooked up a camera to a drone and flew it into the pyrotechnics, offering a new way to marvel at the spectacle. |
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Corrections officers spotted a multirotor drone fly over the prison gates. |
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We know that the skies are open season for all manner of drone traffic, from missile launchers to beer droppers. |
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In a drone warfare world, there is no GI returning with posttraumatic stress, none back with limbs missing. |
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Zac talked in a monotonous drone about the hidden treasures of Egypt, the esoteric wisdom that Aristotle stole, or was it Plato, and then the Egyptians forgot everything. |
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There is some evidence, at the outset, that Henry is a man and not some sort of bipedal drone. |
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It has steadfastly refused to release its own estimates of non-combatant deaths in drone strikes, figures that it says classified. |
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While Doria and Denardo clearly embrace the primal power of the drone, their sound is loud but not dissonant or cacophonous, and is seldom if ever grating but instead clean. |
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Season 4, like the beginning of the series, is centered on another failed drone strike. |
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In fact, most serious energy enthusiasts are keen to distance themselves from those wacky New Age types who drone on about our energy fields being affected by karmic laws. |
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Over the first hour we look at the difference between being an office drone and a fancy-free freelancer and how I react differently to the two very different ways of working. |
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How else can they drone on about the same boring subject continuously? |
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The question of whether munter should have had the ability to stop drone strikes was complicated. |
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But even over the noise, I could hear the monotonous drone of a cicada. |
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The sound of children excitedly running around their school playground and the drone of passing cars are the only noises that disturb the tranquillity of rural life. |
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As the track moves along, the static, rumbles, guitar notes, and drones all mix together, with the drone slowly building and dominating the proceedings. |
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In place of a clearly discernible melody, the piece evolves glacially with fuzzy smears, distorted shards, and industrial buzzing constellating around the drone. |
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Notes from the organ and four horns drone and mimic cathedral bells. |
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Move interstate but always have it in the back of your mind to return one day, just to see if New Editions Bookshop is still there and to lay a drone pipe atop his grave. |
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There was piped elevator music somewhere under the drone of the engines. |
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On one occasion, a drone operator flew a drone over a crowd at Mount Rushmore, then out over the monument itself. |
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The ubiquitous drone is there, of course, now provided by the tanpura. |
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Emotion is enhanced or deflated depending on what happens to be on the air, whether it's the sexy beat of the Rolling Stones or the stentorian drone of an announcer. |
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But while the GoPro is impressive by itself, it has some serious wow factor when combined with a drone. |
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What they do is take pop music, remove every ounce of soul, passion or energy and drone it into a mess of an attempt to make a band that 15 year old girls will drool over. |
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While this may be true for a drone bee mating for the first time with a queen bee, or the Pacific salmon which spawns once and dies, is it true of humans? |
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The Air Force has about seven pilots for every eight drone pilot slots, in other words. |
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The military made an aggressive push to wrest control over drone targeting decisions away from the president. |
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With modest adjustments, this cri de coeur could be plaintively submitted by any corporate drone who's ever dreamed outside his or her little gray box. |
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All ISIS logistics and dispositions in the field are observable by drone and satellite. |
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A mourning dove cooed in the distance, accompanied by the never-ending drone of dragonflies and cicadas in the creek bed hidden behind the tall grass of the field. |
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Thousands of bee swarms in the central Eastern Cape have been decimated by a deadly blood-sucking Asian mite which destroys the male drone bees and damages female worker bees. |
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The United States has conducted drone and airstrikes in Yemen, Pakistan, Iraq, Somalia, and Afghanistan. |
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A decapitation strike carried out by drone killed many of the country's senior generals. |
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By living as a drone, to be an unprofitable and unworthy member of so noble and learned a society. |
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It seems to drone and whisper in its sleep, answering the soughing of the loblolly pines and the tinkling of wind chimes. |
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At Mass, Benedictions, novenas, we huddled in great damp clumps, dozing through priest drone, while steam rose again from our clothes. |
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Pliny recognized the industrious worker bee, the drone and the king bee which would lead the migration to a new hive site. |
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But it takes more than just pilots to operate the drone fleet. |
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At the same time Ryan Aeronautical had developed the Firefish as a drone for missile and gunnery practice. |
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Plaw, who helps curate a database of drone strikes at UMass, defended the use of drones. |
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Raytheon provided more information on its Pyros drone weapon since it performed it first trial in mid-July at Yuma in Arizona. |
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Technological man is either a specialist-savant like Sherlock Holmes or an emasculated drone like Dagwood Bumstead, according to McLuhan. |
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Afterwards I forgot the Mandarin pinyin I'd known since four and had to learn all over, the rising drone of cicadas twisting through my head. |
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The drone has a dwell time of about six hours when operating from an in-theater airfield. |
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A camera merely sees, Nass says, but a drone seems to watch. |
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In March, the Iranian defense researchers built the country's first home-made VTOL drone with particular specifications. |
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He referred to the aircraft features, and said the VTOL drone makes its vertical climb using two wings which increases its speed. |
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In the meantime, certain rules of thumb about drone use are self-evident. |
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Bio-inspired drone ornithopters not only fly, but also crawl and 'perch-and-stare' to minimise battery use. |
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A modern set has a bag, a chanter, a blowpipe, two tenor drones, and one bass drone. |
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Pakistan on Tuesday summoned the US charge d'affaires Richard Hoagland and lodged a protest over drone attacks on its Northwestern tribal areas. |
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The closing Gigue was ebullient with delightful drone effects where Bach suggests a rustic band accompaniment. |
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The result is that drone operators are leaving the Air Force in droves. |
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Hobbyist drone fliers in Dubai seem to be proving that common sense is not so common after all. |
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In 2013 testing began on Taranis, a drone aircraft which is the result of a joint project between UK defence and BAE Systems. |
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I usually find the Geordie accent pleasant on the ear but the dreary moronic drone of the narrator had me turning the sound off. |
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In Syria, a drone carried out one airstrike near Ar Raqqah, where it struck an ISIL tactical unit, the statement said. |
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The drones continue to have altitude problems in the Andes, leading to plans to make a drone blimp, employing open source software. |
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The drone has special coatings and a batwing shape designed to help it penetrate other nations' air defenses undetected. |
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The Skeldar is a derivative of Sweden's Cybaero Apid 55, a 160-kg drone powered by a 41-kW Wankel engine. |
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In 2014 at the New Delhi Auto Show, Renault announced a new model, the Kwid Concept, which comes with helicopter drone. |
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If an Amazon drone flies over your summer BBQ, can you call the cops? |
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People on the telly, they try to do a a Birmingham accent and it ends up like a bit of a Yam Yam accent and a drone that nobody's heard of. |
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If you hear a humming drone, a hissing, a whistle, or all three, you could be sensitive to low-level, low-frequency infrasound noise-vibrations. |
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Different infantry, artillery, electronic war, psychological war, drone and air force units of the Ground Force participated in the drills. |
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Overhead an unmanned drone,, armed with missiles, hummed non-stop, sometimes at altitudes so high it was invisible. |
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A government official in the Orakzai region said 12 other insurgents were injured in the drone attack near Biland village, bordering North Waziristan. |
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The distinctive feature of these tunings is that one or more open strings played along with fingered chord shapings provide a drone note part of the chord. |
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The base has been considerably expanded, with drone flying part of the operation, and in 2014 a lease running at least 20 years was signed for its use. |
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Modern developments have included reliable synthetic drone reeds as well as synthetic bags that deal with moisture arguably better than hide bags. |
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In the first airstrike, a drone fired 10 missiles at a vehicle and tents in Doga Maza Khel area of Datta Khel tehsil, 50 kilometres west of Miranshah, killing 14 terrorists. |
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There will also be a short set by Roberto Corona and Stefano Pinna, who'll play the launeddas, an ancient Sardinian triple-reed instrument that produces a bagpipelike drone. |
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Commander of the IRGC Ground Forces Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour said at the time that the combat drone would carry the RPG with no Backblast. |
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Commenting on the continued drone attacks against suspected Taliban targets inside Pakistan, the PANA leaders said such actions did not serve long-term US interests. |
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In comparison with the current generation of GPS-guided parafoil systems, drone helicopters can achieve far better delivery accuracy, and are self-recovering. |
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One can almost hear the drone of sitars and tambouras as the narrator rhapsodizes over Anju, abandoning linear narrative for a series of intoxicating visual images. |
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The second section, which reflects the composer's eight years of contact with aboriginal music and art, relies on textless chanting above an underlying drone. |
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The cricketer turned politician was deplaned and interrogated by US immigration authorities over his stance against US drone attacks in Pakistan's tribal areas. |
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The original announcement was worded so unclearly that every news reporter thought the Pasdaran were claiming the capture of yet another foreign drone. |
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The finale is another cover, of Suicide's Dream Baby Dream, which doesn't fare as well, syrupy strings and drum loops replacing the post-punk duo's gutter drone. |
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Several images of the compound were obtained via a drone overflight. |
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He chanted as he flew and the car responded with sonorous drone. |
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Chinese education authorities flew a drone over two testing centers in Luoyang, China, on Sunday in an effort to curb cheating on the National College Entrance Exams. |
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