The clamor by disaffected politicians and human rights activists for such a conference had reached a crescendo.

The voices from the Climate Parliament join a growing crescendo of influential actors who are speaking out about the need to clean up our energy habits.

Such questions were set aside under the pressure of public passion, which was raised to a crescendo by incessant media coverage, especially by India s 81 hyperactive all news television channels.

And I remember at the beginning of my career, again and again, on these dismal outings with orchestras, I would be going completely insane on the podium, trying to engender a small scale crescendo really, just a little upsurge in volume.

And I think one of the things that you should take away from this talk, is that there's an impending cut out the middle man, disintermediation, that's going to be happening in the publishing industry, and it's going to reach a crescendo over the next few years, and I think that it's for our benefit, really, and for the world's benefit.