In many ways, the industry's complaints closely echoed the predictions the industry's leaders made when Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani first proposed a safety crackdown last spring.

Nudge screamed, echoed closely by Gazzy.

The ads closely echoed the campaign messages of President Clinton and his Republican opponent, former Senator Robert Dole of Kansas.

A number of the comments closely echoed the White House talking points on the plan.

In Spain, for example, 75 percent of road fatalities in 2004 occurred on rural roads, with that percentage echoed closely in Ireland, New Zealand and Finland.

Imagery and conversations, some hundreds of pages apart, closely echo each other.

Mr. Barnes cites several sentences and paragraphs of "The Wild Blue" that closely echo words in "The Wings of Morning."

"The heart says to fight, Your Highness," one of the advisers put in, closely echoing Brigham's thoughts.

Oddly, the events of the bender closely echoed the plot of the movie.

He closely echoed conservative Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater, who heavily carried the Mississippi white vote in 1964.