The most vivid example of how Hague had failed to move on from his first
conference speech came with his pre-election address.
The conference speech comes at the end of a gruelling few days where Prime Ministers are expected to tour the conference, dropping in to a myriad of events with party members desperate to see and hear their leader mingle and talk to them.
Not exact matches
Hackers could pose a threat
come November elections, said Mark Graff, founder of cybersecurity company Tellagraff and the former chief information security officer for Nasdaq, during his keynote
speech at the New York Institute of Technology's Annual Cybersecurity
Conference last week.
The watershed moment for Spencer and his National Policy Institute
came just after the 2016 election that elevated Trump to the presidency — in a video from The Atlantic that was viewed by millions of people, Spencer was seen delivering a
speech at an NPI
conference in Washington, DC where he used Nazi salutes, imagery, and phrases to celebrate Trump's victory as a victory for his cause.
I recently
came across this quote from Seth Klarman of the Baupost Group, which he said during a
speech that he gave at James Grant's Investment
Conference in October 2013 (http://www.grantspub.com/mygrants/viewarticle.cfm?aid=4995).
The multi-talented entrepreneur, business cycle theorist and investor Roger Babson, an early proponent of technical analysis, had held a
speech at the Annual National Business
Conference in which he boldly predicted that «Sooner or later a crash is
coming, and it will be terrific.»
The findings
came just one day after Tony Blair used his final
speech to the Labour
conference to vigorously defend his controversial foreign policy.
In between the whirlwind of organising events, meeting Heads of States, finalising
speeches, attending
conferences, writing press statements and the many other last minute issues that
come up on such a high level event, I never forgot the significance of the occasion.
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.
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.
There's no reason that by the time
conference comes around there shouldn't be hours of debates and
speeches available for all online.
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.»
Thatcher claimed in a
speech to a Small Business Bureau
Conference in 1984, «I
came to office with one deliberate intent: to change Britain from a dependent to a self - reliant society — from a give - it - to - me, to a do - it - yourself nation.
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.
Nevertheless, a successful party
conference in Liverpool
came and went — crowned by a
speech applauded from all sides of the commentariat for setting out a vision of a Greater Britain, in which all were to benefit from a rising tide of prosperity once the forces of conservatism had been pushed aside.
Barnier's message
came during a joint press
conference with David Davis in which he said May's Florence
speech had «created a new dynamic in our negotiations».
His planned
speech comes as Ed Miliband prepares for the Labour party
conference, where he is expected to face questions over the timetable for constitutional reform.
Nick Harvey left the MoD, Nick Gibb — who notably
came in for heavy praise from education secretary Michael Gove during his
conference speech — was bumped from the DfE, Charles Hendry lost his job at DECC, and Tim Loughton also joined Gibb in the DfE departure lounge.
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.
A former Conservative minister has suggested that Theresa May's ill - fated
speech to her party
conference in Manchester had left a number of MPs convinced that the time had
come for her to resign.
His comments
came in a gaggle with reporters following his
speech at the winter
conference of the New York Conference of Mayors at the Hotel Albany a few blocks from th
conference of the New York
Conference of Mayors at the Hotel Albany a few blocks from th
Conference of Mayors at the Hotel Albany a few blocks from the Capitol.
The first quote
comes from her
conference speech of 1978 and the rest from the Conservative Party manifesto of 1979.
Wilkins is also known by Tory insiders as the man who wrote May's famous 2002
conference speech, which warned activists that some people had
come to see the Conservatives as the «nasty party».
And remember, IDS's demise
came just weeks after a throaty party
conference speech peppered with standing ovations.
Instead this year's
speech closing the Conservative party
conference in Manchester saw a David Cameron we haven't seen much of before -
coming across so earnestly it seemed almost aggressive.
As he
came to the close of his
conference speech, he compared his views on Rupert Murdoch, tobacco firms and taxes, to those of David Cameron.
The move aside from defence
comes after his plan to announce support for Trident nuclear submarines was axed just before he went on stage during a
conference speech.
The first moment it was officially validated as government policy
came nearly a year ago, during Theresa May's
conference speech.
The trip will, therefore,
come after Johnson's
speech to the Conservative
conference, which, the Times reports, will be a «tub - thumping»
speech to appeal to the grassroots.
At the
conference today the theme is «tackling the causes of poverty» and the main
speeches will
come from Andrew Lansley, Michael Gove, Kenneth Clarke, Iain Duncan Smith and Andrew Mitchell.
The second indicative event
came in the form of Vince Cable's
speech to a joint Government / CBI industrial strategy
conference where he indicated his disquiet at George Osborne's economic strategy.
She doesn't rush, surrendered wife - style, to kiss Clegg for the cameras after a party
conference speech: she waits for him to
come to her — and he does.
The governor's inspection
came while the mayor was in Texas for a US
Conference of Mayors
speech.
Then
came George Osborne's
speech to Conservative party
conference, committing to cut inheritance tax.
This was an interim
speech from an interim leader at an interim
conference, designed to secure his position ahead of an election that might
come soon.
Talks can
come in different forms: journal club, seminar series, annual society talk,
conference talk, even a guest
speech at the last wedding you attended is a talk.
Mitchell Warren, head of the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition based in New York City, noted that the timing of the
speech was key, too, as World AIDS Day is
coming up on 1 December and the next international AIDS
conference will take place in Washington, D.C., in July 2012.
In a
speech before the World Coal Association, which also held a
conference in Warsaw this week, Figueres did take a hard line that squares with the IPCC's carbon budget when she told coal industry representatives that they will need to leave most coal reserves in the ground unless the industry
comes up with ways to capture and store CO2 at every operational plant.
Over the weekend, news of actress Ellen Page's
coming out
speech at the Time to THRIVE
conference in Los Angeles has spread to even the remotest...
Lady Bird... * The Magic Kingdom, The Florida Project... * Bradlee (Tom Hanks) and Kay Graham (Meryl Streep) in low - key
conference over brunch — actorly badminton in The Post... * The transcendent finale of Five
Came Back: why we fight, why we film... * At the end of Dunkirk, reading Churchill's
speech from a borrowed newspaper... * Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri: Dixon (Sam Rockwell) fails to catch Milk Dud in his mouth, turns, lurching casually, and looks up at another angle as if more Milk Duds might be raining....
As I read the Match manual, Pedro Noguera's
speech at Morningside's Courageous School
conference came to mind.
The director of Klopotek, the publishing software company, von Berg paused with the timing that
comes of a decade's practice at
conference - closing
speeches.
The quote
comes from a
speech by the good professor to the World Climate
Conference in Geneva last week.