Sentences with phrase «big speech about»

There's also some real warmth between the characters, and Stiller steals the show with his big speech about his dad.

Arsenal's majority shareholder Stan Kroenke made a big speech about Wenger's ability to lead the Gunners to big titles.

It's a great thing to write big speeches about the poor.

Liz Hannah and Josh Singer's script wants to have big speeches about the nobility of journalism as an instrument through which those in power are held accountable, but also wants to be honest about how Washington Post owner Kay Graham (Meryl Streep) and executive editor Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks) were both personal friends of presidents whom the Papers showed were complicit in the long coverup.

Not exact matches

«Everything from poor roads, a classic problem in Russia, to health care and poverty,» came up in the speech, «but while he talked big, he said nothing about exactly how these issues are going to get improved,» she said.

«The human - computer speech interface is the next big thing,» says Nigel Fenwick, a digital business and technology analyst with Forrester, who says Alexa and similar systems were integrated with just about everything on the floor: refrigerators, light fixtures, house - keeping robots, security cameras, door locks, cars, speakers and headphones, shower heads, air conditioners, and the list goes on and on.

If you want your next big speech to have an equally forceful impact in your own corner of the world, you need to be just as thoughtful about when you choose to deliver it.

British MPs have blasted Google, Facebook and Twitter for their lack of efforts in cracking down on abuse and hate speech, while Germany is considering big penalties if they don't do something about it.

And the debate about the Big 4 or the Big 5 is heating up: Professors like Scott Galloway and The Economist are suggesting a split - up, other powerful people like George Soros are giving very critical speeches at Davos, and the EU Commission is taking pretty tough positions here.

Immediately after explaining in his budget speech why the government would not be keeping its commitment to balancing the books, Finance Minister Charles Sousa talked about the need to give hospitals the biggest funding increase they have seen in almost a decade.

No one infringed on his thought process, so I'm not sure what you're talking about... And there's a BIG difference between exercising one's freedom of speech in a public place, and verbally harrassing one's co-workers in their private business workplace... This guy did the latter...

In a speech at the Progressive Policy - Institute, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros made a remarkable statement about what community means for «a modern, big American city and its relationship with a big Washington bureaucracy.»

Just a friendly update from California that I have now spent my fifth day working on contacting all of the big free speech legal advocates in Canada and the United States (and those important organizations in Europe as well) about this story and the entire issue of Free Speech (which these public figure pastors in the U.S. who are nationally known want to silence).

A big difference between this speech and what he had talked about publicly before, according to some who know him, is that during this time frame, he was out of office and didn't have people with political antennae around him to pull him back from such stark rhetoric.

For instance if I were giving a speech about feeding the hungry, and I said» I will make every possible effort to feed as many people as I possibly can», in those exact words, and three people that attended that event gave three accounts about what I said one may say,» he said that he's going to help feed the hungry», another says,» he said with a big smile on his face, just after receiving a good luck kiss from his daughter, I will make every effort to feed as many people as possible, and another says,» as his daughter left and with tears in his eyes he said, I will feed as many people as possible», the same event happened but each person chose to only include details they deemed as neccessary, does it contradict the message or the overall event, absolutely not.

There I was, at the head of the boardroom table, looking at 10 unfamiliar faces, about to give my big speech.

it seems wenger does nt have the courage to play big... he does nt take risks... then he says he was looking at the player of the moment, or he said the same speech u already gave to us to defend something that is, for me, only stubborness and lack of diligence... about granit: do nt start with formal arguments, go to the bone, u know what i mean... u cant said xhaka was the good choise while we did nt see hin play for our colours... i hope he could be the player that we need, but nobody can said that today

Get ready for big speeches and promises about new players, competing for titles, and Arsenal being top top club.

That speech was a big turning point for Geoff's project — for the first time, a viable presidential candidate was talking about building on his work in a big way, at the national level.

You don't have to make a big deal about correcting her speech — simply echo what she said, but correctly.

15.19 - Biggest laugh of the speech is for a joke about Tory backbench proposals for Margaret Thatcher day.

Mayor Bloomberg, who isn't a big fan of increasing Wall Street regulations, didn't get a heads - up from the White House about Obama's visit, and his invite to the speech came after the fact.

In a speech in 2010, Cameron enthused about the Big Society, saying: «Things that fire you up in the morning, that drive you, that you truly believe will make a real difference to the country you love, and my great passion is building the Big Society.»

Westminster frothed with talk of Hammond facing the sack before the big speech and set about its now traditional task of picking holes in the statement afterwards.

The mayor's presumptive Republican challenger, Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis, demanded that he «come clean with the taxpayers» about the cost of bringing his NYPD bodyguards to Germany for his big speech at a G20 protest rally.

Whether we're talking about the «squeezed middle», the «cost - of - living crisis» or cutting the «biggest budget deficit in our peacetime history», it's fair to say that many Brits will be feeling pretty taxed already by the time the chancellor stands up to deliver his budget speech on Wednesday.

The mayor himself spoke for less than 10 minutes, and though his speech didn't include much in the way of actual policy — he wanted to keep it short for the benefit of those assembled in the cold — he did repeat his promise about making New York «the fairest big city in America.»

You can read his speech in full here but the two big things you need to know about the event and the speech are...

In her victory speech Teachout spoke specifically to voters in the Hudson valley, talking about her work against big oil and fracking, a key issue in the area.

ALBANY — Donald Trump, aiming for a big win in New York's upcoming primary, sought to fire up supporters to get them to the polls in a whirlwind speech delivered to about 10,000 Monday.

Also worth mentioning: There's nary a word in the prepared speech about Aqueduct and the nation's biggest convention center.

Remember that story Bobby Jindal told in his big speech Tuesday night — about how during Katrina, he stood shoulder - to - shoulder with a local sheriff who was battling government red tape to try to rescue stranded victims?

«This was very much a big - picture speech meant to enthuse an audience of people who use all of the different infrastructure systems that the governor talked about,» she said.

In his coup speech, Nzeogwu complained about «those that make the country look big for nothing before international circles».

But his big speech fell flat with some pundits after the foreign secretary eschewed details about exactly what he wants from Brexit in favour of passages about the liberal idealism of John Stuart Mill and jokes about dogging and Thai sex tourism.

«Films can do many things, they can entertain, terrify, they can make us laugh and tell us something about the real world we live in - sorry it's early for a political speech - and in that real world it's getting darker and in the struggle that is coming between rich and poor and the wealthy and the privileged and the big corporations and politicians who speak for them.»

Making her keynote platform speech, the shadow foreign secretary set the foundations for her gag by talking about how she would like to see Labour claiming a few big Tory scalps in the next general election.

The Labour party mounted a significant press operation around it: there was the mandatory trail to the Guardian the previous night, lots of morning chatter on Twitter among Milibelievers about what a big deal this all was with shadow ministers deployed to comment immediately following the speech.

But the investigation is clearly focusing on Cuomo's administration and contracts it has issued in some of Upstate New York's biggest projects - including some of the signature projects Cuomo boasts about in speeches while asserting he's done more for the region than any governor in decades.

In his speech to Lib Dem members on Wednesday, Farron will say: «Housing is the biggest single issue that politicians don't talk about.

Even big Cameron critic, James Delingpole at The Telegraph was positive (about the performance at least): «Cameron's speech was a bravura exercise in super-salesmanship.

Last week was the Labour leader's big fight - back speech, this week was meant to be about the Tory by - election defeat to Ukip and next week should have been David Cameron's Götterdämmerung with new defections to Ukip and the emergence of a letter in the press, signed by dozens of Tory backbenchers, calling for a change in leader.

In an April speech in Harlem, he said that «as a big, tough guy,» he wasn't frightened but spends the eerie, sleepless nights reading about past governors.

Yes, I gave a speech about my concerns at a big cardiology conference in the US in 2007.

Usually people say this kind of thing to couples who have been together a long time without becoming parents yet, but there's no need to make a big speech to someone about your surprise over their choice to start the parenthood journey.

Actually on the interracial dating front, one of the directors of the program for my school gave a speech on the first day about how interracial relationships are not a big deal in London like they are in America.

Honestly, more than any speech or dialogue exchange within the movie, the structure here suggests a lot about how fleeting any given moment, any particular memory, any specific item, or any person's life actually is in the big picture of life across generations.

The problem isn't merely that the movie is too long, and too filled with speeches about how Wall Street screwed main street out of its last red cent; it's that Stone can't decide whether he wants it to be about the aging lions like Gekko who stick around long after they already received their so - called comeuppances, or about this generation's young turks, like Jake, who operate on a scale far bigger and more dangerous than Gordon ever did.

Granted, a great deal of direct speech was left out from the final cut, and the longer TV version of Trespassing, apparently, contains more, but what the film has to say about Bergman comes down, in the end, to the assertion that the classic was too big to be grasped in all his grandeur (all too consistent with Bergman's name that translates as «mountain man»).

What I liked about Allison's acceptance speech last night was that she wasn't there to pretend that she hadn't won everything already and would probably win the biggest prize.