Sentences with phrase «as ordinary speech»

Not exact matches

Instead, he would essentially sanction the complete turnover of the shareowner's proxy to managers to facilitate their own entrenchment, with the possible exception that some rights to submit proxy proposals might still be maintained by hedge funds, the only shareowners recognized in Gallagher's speech as representing the rights of «ordinary» investors.»

Readers of Solzhenitsyn's «Repentance and Self - Limitation in the Life of Nations,» which dared to defend as essentially correct the common feature of ordinary speech that depicts nations as capable of guilt, repentance, and a «spiritual life,» will understand why, as will viewers moved by Nelson's Mandela core message in the film Invictus.

111 While it may not be a «speech decoration» as Ricoeur stresses, it helps in the process of making comprehensible that which is beyond ordinary perception.

Of course, the word «information,» as it is used in ordinary speech, often has some implication that the information will be useful as a guide to action.

Process thought uses its key words not unfamiliar in ordinary speech - words such as «event,» «process, organism,» «sentience» and «internal relations.»

Aristocratic gentlemen and gentlewomen are also trained in arts of speech and behavior that serve to mark them as superior to ordinary people.

They are not the elements of a new language, distinct from our ordinary language, but simply represent a shorthand for our everyday speech, as pertaining to mathematics.

It is exactly the same message as that seen in Clegg's speech to his party's autumn conference in Glasgow: only the Liberal Democrats can be trusted to both provide fairness to ordinary people and deliver on economic trustworthiness.

In his latest speech, Smith also risked the wrath of centrist Labour members as he took a swipe at Tony Blair, saying that under his leadership the party had lost touch with ordinary members.

In the few hours since Republican V.P nominee Sarah Palin made fun of Barack Obama's community organizer background at her speech at the RNC, the Obama campaign has already sent out a mass fundraising email using her remarks as a hook: «Why would the Republicans spend a whole night of their convention attacking ordinary people?

In her speech, she compared the ordinary people who campaigned for the Welsh language at times when it had not been fashionable to do so as civil rights activists «in the mould of Mrs Rosa Parks».

Dignam's screenplay doesn't illuminate anything else about these people, despite the movie's big, closing speech being on the subject of seeing refugees as ordinary people, who happen to find themselves in extraordinary circumstances.

The sweet spot that Common Core tries to get at are «Tier - two» words like analysis, evaluate, and negligent that are common to sophisticated adult speech and writing, but which we perceive as ordinary, not specialized language.