Sentences with phrase «best conference speech»

As with all good conference speeches Mr Cameron inserts a personal story about an 18 - year - old soldier he met.

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«Juan Trippe of Pan American was the quintessential example of a charismatic leader,» Good to Great author Jim Collins said in a speech at the Inc. 500 conference in Salt Lake City in 1998.

Friedman — who in his long career has advised the US government and military as well as Fortune 500 companies — held the keynote speech at the annual Strategic Investment Conference hosted by investment research firm Mauldin Economics.

The annual Female Founders Conference, hosted by the Mountain View startup accelerator Y Combinator, usually features feel - good speeches from female industry leaders on their professional journey.

His speech at the ecumenical conference in Fano in 1934 has recently become well known, for in it he rejected all human means of security and called for a Christian council of all churches to reject war.

Lewis is a rising star in the party and was largely judged to have given the best speech of the Labour conference.

A rather young delegate, who might have fitted in better at an X Factor audition than the Conservative party conference, moaned during the queue for Cameron's final speech that he was «bored» by this year's conference.

11:26 - There comes a day in each conference season when Vince Cable makes his speech, and that is usually the best day at conference.

In his book Power Trip, Damian McBride recalls his frustration — and sneaking admiration for — Tony Blair's annual conference Houdini act: «Each year we'd come in with Tony under pressure, probably assisted by some unhelpful splashes from me in the Sunday papers; Gordon would make an ecstatically received speech appealing to Labour's soul and adding to the pressure; and Tony would then deliver an even better - received speech dashing Gordon's hopes and putting him back in his box.»

«It is not a Liberal Democrat health bill but it is a better bill because of the Liberal Democrats, a better bill because of you,» Mr Clegg told delegates during his conference speech this afternoon.

In his inaugural leadership speech at the 2010 Party Conference, he called on Labour to «inspire people with our vision of the good society».

In a speech to the advancing enterprise conference in the London, the chancellor emphasised the importance of long - term economic stability but also providing the right regulatory framework and investment to make Britain the best place to do business.

But given where this conference started, with a defection and a scandal, David Cameron must be delighted at the way it has ended: A conference speech which is being described all over the airwaves, and back in Birmingham, as the best of his career.

In his spring conference speech, Nick Clegg argued that it was this activism that would mean that at the General Election the Liberal Democrats would «defy the odds and win again this May» and «do so much better than anyone thinks».

[14] However, referring to a Conference speech by the party's former leader, Campaign Manager Andrew Mitchell said: «William Hague made a great speech which many people will judge to be better than all the other leadership candidates put together.

Commenting on Nick Clegg's announcement of summer «catch - up» schools in his speech to the Liberal Democrats Conference, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said this: «In the National Union of Teachers we want every child to have the best possible opportunities and that means investing in education across the board.

In a speech to a conference organised by Google, the internet search engine provider, Mr Cameron called for a new measure to assess people's general well - being, or GWB, similar to gross domestic product (GDP), which analyses a country's economic activity.

David Cameron ended his Conservative Party conference speech telling delegates to pull together and lead Britain to better days.

David Cameron gave a superbly crafted and well - aimed speech to the Scottish Tory Conference in Troon on Friday.

Lt. Governor Kathy Hochul represented Cuomo at the conference luncheon, delivering a 15 - minute speech that emphasized her roots in the Erie County village of Hamburg as well as her willingness to listen and travel.

At that year's Labour conference, he made what was widely interpreted as the opening salvo of a leadership campaign - with a speech appealing to the party's «soul» telling activists «we are best when we are Labour».

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Last month only 21 per cent thought he made a good leader, now risen to 40 per cent on the back of his well - received conference speech.

It's over for another year - and it's by far the best speech of the conference season.

Timed to coincide with celebrations of Gordon Brown's impassioned and well - delivered leader's speech, the Sun headline all - but detonated the conference by undermining Labour just at the moment the party felt a glimmer of hope about its electoral prospects.

D'Amato gave a well received speech before the conference, detailing his first campaign against Sen. Jacob Javits and the deployment of his mother in the now - famous «Mama D'Amato» ads.

It's probably the best quote available to a Lib Dem in his position to use in a conference speech at this precise moment in time.

In his speech to the Labour conference, veteran Labour MP Paul Flynn lamented that «we've got some of our best people sitting on the subs bench».

And in her Tory conference speech, she said: «To make Britain a great meritocracy, we must move beyond this agenda and deliver real social reform across every layer of society so that those whom the system would currently miss — those just above the threshold for help today yet those who are by no means rich or well off — are given the help they need.

Since the leader's conference speech last autumn, which was pretty well received, he has taken a few knocks.

In regard to the Tory party delegates, their conferences are normally so well organised that you don't hear any speeches that are negative about the party.

McLaughlin, a freshman from Melrose, raised the hopes of conservative advocates that he would mount a run after giving a well - received speech at the Conservative Party's Political Action Conference.

Jeremy Corbyn will be finding his best shirt right now for his first conference speech as leader.

As I said at the time, the PM's conference speech made a good start on these things, but they must keep up the momentum.

Until Theresa May's speech, I thought the final day of the Conservative conference was going rather well for the Tories.

One of the most significant parts of Dave's conference speech was perhaps his insistence that Britain could have «the best of both worlds» by staying in a reformed EU.

Ruth Davidson gave the best speech of this year's Tory conference, while Gavin Williamson showed he is also one to watch.

Conference polls are a strange and rather artifical thing of course, Labour might well do even better after Miliband's speech tomorrow, but I'd expect them to go back behind next week when the Conservatives enjoy their own confereConference polls are a strange and rather artifical thing of course, Labour might well do even better after Miliband's speech tomorrow, but I'd expect them to go back behind next week when the Conservatives enjoy their own conferenceconference boost.

It was in his party conference speech last autumn that Mr Miliband first divided capitalism between good «producers» who ought to be encouraged and bad «predators» who had to be curbed.

And you attacked Ed M's call for better behaviour by big business in his 2011 conference speech, even though David Cameron promptly jumped on board the bandwagon that Ed had started rolling.

If things had gone differently, Ed Miliband would now be enjoying a well - earned holiday somewhere hot, eagerly pursued by a retinue of security officers and sweaty officials, planning his first Labour conference speech as Prime Minister.

Ed Miliband used the «Britain can do better» phrase 17 times during his speech to the party's annual conference in Brighton.

Best speech of this or any other Conference season by a country mile, and I can say that with absolute confidence even though there are two conferences still to take place this year.

And he re-used Ed Miliband's mantra from his conference speech to ridicule Labour's plans for an energy cap, as the chancellor told his own conference: «Britain can do better than that».

Over at Liberal Conspiracy, Dave Osler writes that much of the speeches made at this year's Lib Dem conference have been «marked by a degree of ostensible radicalism well beyond anything heard in ministerial speeches under New Labour».

Does that mean running for governor, he was asked by local scribes at an impromptu news conference following his speech at the recently renamed Best Western Plus in Kingston.

After David Cameron's well - reviewed conference speech last week, which promised income tax cuts, 39 % of voters say the prime minister and the chancellor, George Osborne, are the team they would most trust «to manage the economy properly», compared with just 19 % who say they would trust the opposition Labour leader, Ed Miliband and his shadow chancellor, Ed Balls.

Burnham hinted as much in his conference speech: «with the best will in the world, the NHS won't be able to do it all.»

NEC members praised his conference speech and drew attention to Tory attacks on employment rights including access to tribunals, the paradox under which British railways can be run by states as long as they are foreign states, the need for good jobs not just any jobs, further cuts in public service pay, the threat of a new European / United States trade agreement, excessive warmth towards free schools, and expansion of food banks and payday loans into mainstream society.

Given that this was an odd - numbered year, therefore, it was time for Cameron to make — well, Anthony Seldon spelt it out a month ago in The Daily Telegraph: «Cameron's speech at the party conference in early October must be the most important speech of his life.»