Sentences with phrase «listen to a speech on»

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Just listen to the urgent speeches from world leaders, and you might think that most governments agree that while we have no sustainable, clean alternative to fossil fuels that we can implement on a large scale today, we need to find one and put it in place quickly.

«A couple months ago I felt that we had entered an important moment in the history of this country... We were finally beginning to listen to women,» he said in his resignation speech on the chamber floor.

The sounds that they had listened to were from the previous speech by Chairman Bernanke as he voiced his deep concerns about the persistent drag of unemployment on GDP.

So you listen to one pastor say awful things and come to the conclusion that Christianity has a corner on legalism, hate speech, and self righteousness?

Valid interpretation is a listening to what can not be heard without the parable; allegorizing is a speech imposed on the parable, telling it what it must mean.

Sitting on a cushy chair listening to songs that use the name Jesus and listening to a speaker make a speech that may or may not have anything to do with Jesus by themselves don't necessarily constitute a gathering of believers.

Today people look back on Luther as the all - time master of listening to colloquial speech and feeding it back as part of a new literary German, thus honoring both vernacular and high literature.

listening to the leaders making speeches during the second world war all mentioned they have god on their side.

If you've listened to the student leaders from Parkland, Florida, over the past few weeks or watched the speeches delivered at the March for Our Lives, you'll know that hell hath no fury like teenagers on a mission.

People «believe» all sorts of nonsense, and their «beliefs» are subject to change on a regular basis (listen to any John Kerry speech, in which he begins every other paragraph with «I believe...» followed by his belief of the week.

It was the custom of Athenian society to gather in the agora to listen to speeches by any persons who felt they had something to say and then to quiz them and often to debate them on the validity of their ideas.

Dressing up in a child - sized bunad for Syttende Mai parades in the Scandinavian - rich neighborhood of Ballard, eating the traditional feasts my grandparents would serve us on holidays, listening to the heavy and melodic accent that wove its way through my relatives» speech — this was my upbringing and I loved it.

Listening to speeches by plant - based experts and reading up on nutritional science inspired us two years ago to start our own little food blog --

But you wouldn't know it by listening to an angry coalition of high school students who plan to speak out on Chicago Public Schools meals Wednesday at the monthly Chicago Board of Education meeting.One of those students is Teresa Onstott, a sophomore at Social Justice High School who last week practiced a speech that details the «sickening pizza, chicken sandwiches and nachos» the district serves each day and urges the board not to renew the contract for the company providing the food.

An experiment on slightly younger babies (6.5 to 7.5 months old) suggests that word segmentation is much easier when babies have been listening to infant - directed speech (Thiessen et al 2005).

Communication and language development: We will focus on listening and responding to stories and events, and encourage your child to express himself effectively, thereby developing speech and storytelling skills.

That's because sucking on a pacifier locks a child's mouth in an unnatural position, making it more difficult for him to develop his tongue and lip muscles normally, says Patricia Hamaguchi, a speech - language pathologist from Cupertino, California, and author of Childhood, Speech, Language, and Listening Problems: What Every Parent Should Know.

Joy Wilmouth, a speech language pathologist and certified Auditory Verbal Therapist, leads a team that empowers children with hearing loss to listen and talk on par with their hearing peers.

3)... that they will repeat a bad word I used when they weren't supposed to be listening, like when Garrett spilled his goldfish crackers on the floor in the doctor's office and he said «oh shit»... conveniently, I might add, just after the doctor had asked me «So how's the speech therapy going?»

I listened to a podcast he did in November 2010 about dealing with the country's deficit, various speeches on the EU, I watched one of his very early Conservative conferences when he first got elected.

So Congressmembers could use social media to send messages OUT to constituents, though I doubt they could listen to many of them in return (comments on Boehner's Facebook post about his speech already number above 4000).

This teaches us two things about the current campaign (neither of which is too surprising): i) both candidates try to cater to the electorate by using easy language; and ii) Trump should listen to his speech writers and try to stay on - script.

«Over the past few days, New Yorkers have witnessed this misguided arrogance on full display as the Mayor jetted off to Hamburg, Germany in search of an audience willing to listen to a speech were he extolled the diversity of the riders of our subways, while failing to mention the crisis our transit system faces and the so called «summer of hell» that starts today,» she said.

No other African leader has been able to articulate the issue as cearly and succintly as he did on that occassion and I urge every Nigerian to google the speech on Youtube and listen to him carefully.

On July 22nd a crowd gathered at Albany High in Albany, New York (the state capital) to hear State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo give a speech about listening to the community.

He seemed happy to disclose such state secrets to political journalists at a press gallery lunch today in Parliament, possibly confident he was in sympathetic company following his anti-legislation stance on the Leveson report; «the same message» as Nick Clegg gave, he argued, if you «listened carefully» to the Deputy PM's notably separate speech on the matter.

Listen to shadow schools secretary Michael Gove offer his thoughts on David Cameron's speech to the Conservative party conference in Manchester:

After delivering a speech participants acknowledged as in - depth and inspiring on his party's policies, the man whose oratory has been lauded by many who have critically listened to him, said the lavish structure is not disability friendly since no one ever believes that someone in a wheelchair will ever be President in Ghana.

Maybe it was Ed, for instance, who described how he, Brown and Charlie Whelan were listening to Blair's party conference speech on a car radio when Brown suddenly started heckling («He didn't want that... He opposed that...») And surely it could only have been Whelan, still spinning even in his political grave, who described the Chancellor's fury after being «ambushed» about the Ecclestone donation on the Today programme, for who else but our Charlie would say «Gordon went mental»?

You can listen to the speech live on WAMC, wamc.org and the WAMC mobile app.

Dave Prentis, the general secretary of Unison, said the Queen's speech showed the government «had listened» and taken up issues that mattered to people, such as poverty, the environment, care for the elderly, and curbs on risk - taking and sharp practices by the financial sector.

Ep 12 - 77,651 — Listen to excerpts of a speech the city's housing commissioner, Maria Torres - Springer, gave at a Citizens Budget Commission event on Wednesday, September 20, followed by 15 minutes of Q - and - A with the commissioner.

Flat Eagle, who has been a member of NAN for many years, listened to the speeches after time spent on a long line.

ALBANY - In a shot across Gov. Cuomo's bow, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on Sunday said his members would rather cut deals «than listen to speeches.»

Stories on animals that didn't need human help to become tame; false news spreads deeper, wider, and faster than true news — with or without bots; and listening for gender and sexual orientation in human speech

«All humans grow up listening to tens of thousands of speech examples, with the result that our brains contain a comprehensive mapping of the likelihood that any given pair of mouth movements and speech sounds go together,» said Dr. Michael Beauchamp, professor of neurosurgery at Baylor College of Medicine and senior author on the paper with John Magnotti, postdoctoral research fellow at Baylor.

On a related note, as I listened to NASA's press conference this afternoon, I couldn't help but reimagine Rutger Hauer's famous speech at the end of «Blade Runner»: «I've seen things you people wouldn't believe — attack ships on fire off the shoulders of Orion, water vapor erupting off the surface of Europa.&raquOn a related note, as I listened to NASA's press conference this afternoon, I couldn't help but reimagine Rutger Hauer's famous speech at the end of «Blade Runner»: «I've seen things you people wouldn't believe — attack ships on fire off the shoulders of Orion, water vapor erupting off the surface of Europa.&raquon fire off the shoulders of Orion, water vapor erupting off the surface of Europa.»

Dance of three Vajras Practice on three vajras Mind body and speech Revealing the three mysteries Listen to the sound of silence Just be Taking it all in and nothing.

Boll says Anderson was clearly outraged by criticisms he levied against him during a recent podcast, because listening to hours of Uwe Boll's meticulously recorded and mellifluous speech is exactly what Anderson is doing with his dwindling time on earth.

Interested community members might include a local congresswoman who can listen to student speeches on public policy or a deli owner who can review posters students create on healthy eating.

Giving students speeches to read or listen to also helps teachers increase their students» background knowledge on a time in history.

Lawmakers listen to a speech by state superintendent Tony Bennett on the floor of the Indiana House of Representatives.

On Saturday, between putting up tomatoes, baking cookies, cleaning house, fixing dinner, and walking my dog, I spent hours reading a variety of news sources, listening to DeVos» speech, and reviewing its transcript.

The big draws on the DX was the free 3G internet access that works in over 300 countries and the speakers to listen to audiobooks or take advantage of text to speech.

After you've got 200 people that'll, you know, listen to your speech or going to buy your book... I've got a fella that sells books on the subway.

Listening to a lengthy speech or writing it on paper is really a boring matter for the audience or the writer.

This feature FINALLY freed up the visually impaired so that they could get books at regular prices and listen to them (as opposed to paying quadruple the money for recordings / audio files)!!!!! It was a whole wonderful new world that, because of corporate greed, is now being riped away from them!!!!!! Since this feature is not on the new Kindle and since the newer books are not TEXT to SPEECH enabled, we now have to buy the Whispersynch to listen to the book.

The fast setting is OK but the speech gets a tad bit clipped at times and I need to focus all of my concentration on what I'm listening to.

Thanks to audiobook creator, there is no need for amazons text to speech support to listen to your ebooks on your kindle or your mp3 player.

Although I never used it much, I did like to listen to news articles on text - to - speech while I worked on my computer.