Sentences with phrase «conference speech about»

Ed Balls was clear in his conference speech about fortifying the crowd with some recollections of Labour's past.

No new ideas but a development on his conference speech about «aspiration nation» a year ago.

Not exact matches

Indeed, the apparent decline in Trump's spontaneous speech — that is, the unscripted answers he gives in interviews and press conferences — was one of the first behaviors that spurred debate about whether he was suffering cognitive decline or mild cognitive impairment.

During the SXSW tech conference in March, Khan read out racist tweets about himself in a plea for social media firms to crack down on hate speech.

On that note, Mark Carney - the governor of the Bank of England - made a speech at the Deutsche Bundesbank G20 conference this week where he spoke about some of the considerations the Bank makes when deciding whether something like blockchain should be brought into its regulatory perimeter.

So when he turned his attention to writing about atheism, he was initially in great demand for conferences, speeches and TV appearances.

About this Thomas wrote later, «In a speech on evangelism given by the British evangelical, John Stott, he criticized me for seeing too much convergence in the theologies of evangelism of the Lausanne Conference 1974, the Roman Catholic Bishops» Synod 1974, and the WCC Bangkok Consultation 1973.

When he launched the Global Information Infrastructure project in a 1994 speech at the conference of the International Telecommunication Union in Buenos Aires, US Vice President Al Gore spoke very movingly about the creation of this mother of all networks.

There have been so many adventures at Evo Conference (where I was giving a keynote speech) that I have been trying to wrap my head around them and finally decided I will write a separate post on each so that no post is too long to read and also you can choose what you want to read about.

Coming so fast on Boris» speech to the Tory party conference, when he raised eyebrows by telling an audience of right - wingers they ought to pull themselves together on immigration, Dave will be getting much more relaxed about the leadership threat from his floppy - haired Bullingdon rival.

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.

Speaking ahead of his speech at the NASUWT teachers» conference, the schools secretary said the general election would see tough choices about school funding.

This is conference speech rhetoric and I agree with him about the calibre of those three candidates, but is he right about select committees?

His conference speech line about implementing socialist reforms outside the single market has never been specified - and indeed, left - wing commentators have emphasised for months how Corbyn's agenda could be easily delivered inside the single market or EU.

For Theresa May and her inner team, September is about one thing: preparing to deliver a great conference speech.

During my speech at the recent Chartered Institute of Taxation Indirect Taxes Conference, I looked at some of the possibilities that gradually seem to be taking shape about Brexit and considered some of the things that those of us working in or advising businesses in the UK should consider.

It speaks volumes about the priorities of the Conservative party that they see benefit cuts for the working poor as a crowd - pleasing punchline for a conference speech.»

His failure to mention it in his 2014 party conference speech was just one sign of a rather muddled approach to the problem; after the 2010 election, the party's initial strategy was to talk about the necessity of cuts in general while opposing some of the most high - profile cuts introduced by the coalition, particularly when it came to welfare.

I wrote a not entirely serious piece about that here when Brown used it in a conference speech http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/sep/26/twosidesofthesamecoin

Olivia Fleming, a junior Siena student and registered Democrat, said the conference was more about conservatism than free speech.

Norman Lamb, in a thought - provoking speech about the potential future role of mutuals in public services at the Social Liberal Forum Conference, did just that.

The Labour leader's speech at the annual party conference also offered intriguing clues about his future direction.

Is he worried about fulfilling the message of his progressive conference speech?

Even when getting in a fix about young people who «make films» in Soho - the highlight of the conference speech - he emerges with his popularity enhanced, not diminished.

He will deliver a speech at Suffolk County Community College at about 1:30 p.m. Hundreds of UFT members, students and faculty will protest against Trump in Brentwood State Park, across the street from the campus, with an 11:30 a.m. press conference scheduled.

About 20 minutes into his speech at the progressive Netroots Nation conference in Detroit, Biden was interrupted by demonstrators in the audience who repeatedly chanted «Stop deporting our families.»

Clegg also had a brief section on this in his speech last week, but none of the Westminster parties seem to have a great deal to say about this outside of party conference time.

Andrew Neil asked Theresa May about her Conservative Party conference speech where she claimed an illegal immigrant was allowed to stay in the country because of his cat.

In case anyone was still in any doubt about what the new kindness and gentleness entailed, Len McCluskey, the general secretary of Unite, spelled it out in a speech in the main auditorium of the Labour conference.

Last night's doubts about the leader's speech, widely expressed in the bars and receptions of Labour conference, are crystallising into a genuine fear on what happens next for Labour.

At the party conference a year ago his second attempt to supplant Gordon crumbled into embarrassment after a gauche and woolly platform speech, Newsnight's revelations about his musings on avoiding «a Heseltine moment», and of course the ridiculous banana photograph.

He and Ed Miliband had been friends for some years and, after Miliband was elected leader in 2010, Milne was among those consulted about his first party conference speech.

The workplace, where you go to work, learn, live, and occasionally love, was in the spotlight this morning at LGBT charity Stonewall's annual Workplace Conference, as shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper gave a frank speech about the overwhelming need for «celebration of diversity» in the workplace.

We don't even hear about «togetherness», which was the theme of his last conference speech.

No - one was talking about the European Court of Justice apart from a few blow - hards when she made her October conference speech.

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

Between the cough and the prankster, Theresa May used her conference speech last week to talk about bringing back the «British Dream».

The chancellor gave a speech of honey and vinegar today to the Conservative Party Conference, with optimism about recovery but tougher measures for the unemployed

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.

Ukip leader Nuttall said earlier this week of May's speech: «Some of it did sound like a UKIP conference speech and the prime minister is now applying some of the things that we've been talking about for many, many years, so I would give her seven out of ten for this effort.»

This week, amid coughs and pitying ovations and disintegrating stage furniture, Theresa May used part of her conference speech to speak about the Conservative party's compassion.

«It speaks volumes about the priorities of the Conservative party that they see benefit cuts for the working age poor as a crowd - pleasing punch line for a conference speech.»

The video preceding David Cameron's speech blasted out to the conference hall this afternoon was played to a soundtrack of The Killers» «All These Things That I've Done» — but it wasn't really about that at all.

He will make a speech about his political future on Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland, just outside of Washington.

Beleaguered leader Iain Duncan Smith once defended his conference approach with a speech about being the «quiet man» ready to «turn up the volume».

At the time, Americans were feeling queasy over a proposed bank bailout, David Cameron was about to make his conference speech and Peter Mandelson was safely tucked away in Brussels.

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.

London Mayor Boris Johnson highlighted celebrity chef Jamie Oliver's comments about the work ethic of British young people during his conference speech.

After a day - long conference in London on how to move forward the political process in Libya, other developments included: An admission the Coalition did not yet fully know who made up the opposition, which came after Nato said American intelligence had shown «flickers» of al Qaeda among the rebels; A suggestion the Coalition would be prepared to see Colonel Gaddafi go into exile if a country was willing to take him; A claim by the Italians that several nations were working on a deal involving a ceasefire, exile for Gaddafi and a talks framework between Libya's tribal leaders and opposition figures; Nick Clegg warning about the «danger of overreaching» during a speech in Mexico, but stressing liberal interventionism must be upheld.

Amid controversy about Conservative spending commitments and their claims about Labour's tax policy, the Liberal Democrat economic affairs spokesman today branded the Tories cynical in his speech to the Liberal Democrat conference in Bournemouth.