Sentences with phrase «gave a moving speech»

During the prize - giving ceremony, the prize - winner, Leonor Espinosa, gave a moving speech in which she said.

The chamber was silent as Republican Senator Tom Libous of Binghamton gave a moving speech about his five - year battle with prostate cancer, which has now spread into his lungs and which requires him to get chemotherapy every 21 days.

in a plunging two - tone Hellessy gown, Anya Hindmarch clutch and»70s - inspired curls at the GLAAD Media Awards in Beverly Hills, where she accepted the Vanguard Award and gave a moving speech.

Now fully grown Ellar Coltrane, whom we all watched grow up in Richard Linklater's Boyhood, gives a moving speech as he presents his movie parents Hawke and Arquette with the American Riviera Award at the Santa Barbara Film Festival.

Mark Steines gave a moving speech about the recent passing of his father, also a military veteran, who shared the same name as a veteran honored at the gala.

Dipti from Friends of the Earth International then gave a moving speech about communities across the world that are fighting dirty energy and pushing for their right to control power for themselves.

Yeb arrived and gave a moving speech to the cameras about the urgent need for a justice driven, equitable deal on the climate crisis.

In 2013, the actress gave a moving speech at the Golden Globes that many interpreted as her publicly confirming her sexuality, saying: «This is not going to be a big coming - out speech tonight because I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago back in the stone age — in those very quaint days when a fragile girl would open up to trusted friends and family and coworkers and then gradually proudly to everyone who knew her.»

Not exact matches

By giving moving and inspiring speeches?

It was a fantastic evening and great credit should go to Ariana Grande, and her team and her manager Scooter Braun; who also gave a very moving speech.

It was the tongue that gave Socrates, Isaiah, Abraham Lincoln, and Winston Churchill their immense power and their tremendous gifts of leadership, for each of these people could move a nation simply with his speech.

In Inherit the Wind, Drummond gives a tough - sounding speech about the tradeoffs of progress, instructing the jury that every advance of civilization requires that something be surrendered: «Darwin moved us forward to a hilltop, where we could look back and see the way from which we came.

In the 30 games Vee coached each season, the 100 speeches he eventually gave each year, the objective was the same: to make people leap, make them laugh, make them cry, make them dream, to move people.

Heastie, the first African American speaker in the Assembly's 237 year history, gave a brief speech to the chamber, where he focused on moving on from the scandal brought on the Assembly by his predecessor.

Our President gave a sincere speech outlining a bold plan to move our country forward by empowering the American people,» Reed said.

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.

What's interesting about the speech that Emma Watson gave is that it's a completely dead - on point that the only way to move the rights of women forward is if men get on board and comprehend it too.»

Professor Mordechai Paldiel, Former Director of the Department of the Righteous at Yad Vashel, gave a very moving speech recognizing the Albanians of that horrific era for their dedication to saving the lives of the Jews of their nation and beyond.

It is a sign of the times, and a tragedy that the most popular Senator in the Nigerian National Assembly at this moment is not the person who has moved the most impactful motion, not a lawmaker who has proposed a thought - provoking bill, and certainly not any Senator who has given any impressive speech debating a matter of national importance.

Following a speech he gave at an Association for a Better New York breakfast last month, Flanagan indicated he was moved by Cuomo's State of the State speech in which the governor described regretting not being at his father's side during his final days.

He gave a six - minute speech, which touched on the woes of upstate New York, which he said could find salvation if natural gas hydrofracking were permitted to move forward.

Heastie, the first African - American speaker in the Assembly's 237 year history, gave a brief speech to the chamber, where he focused on moving on from the scandal brought on the Assembly by his predecessor.

Speaking today at a White House event honoring the nation's top elementary school teachers and scientist - mentors, President Barack Obama gave a stump - like speech about the need «to move from the middle to the top of the pack in science and math education over the next decade.»

Viola Davis was an expected and equally popular winner in Best Supporting Actress for her wonderful work in Fences, and gave a moving and emotional speech.

But seeing Colin Firth weep, and then snap out of it with a great, moving performance, finally give his speech to convince the country to go to war to fight the Nazis?

In his powerful and moving speech, he stressed, «You understand that when we give a girl better health, education and well - being, we see results far beyond that individual.

We will never forget your state of the state speech where you insulted every public school teacher, we will never forget who you put in as education commissioner, we will never forget your sympathies to charter schools, and we will never forget who you tried to cut the retired teacher's health benefits in the budget, while giving billionaires money to move their corporation fifteen miles down the road.

Merrick Pet Care's, Pete Brace gave a very moving speech at the conference regarding the human animal bond.

- get Public Works tasks from Isabelle - early on you'll have to build a school - choose the outside look from a selection of options then work on the inside - inside includes work on benches, lockers, tables and more - later you'll work on a hospital, cafe, a shop and more - the hospital tasks you with working on multiple rooms - use the stylus to drag and drop items into the playing field - tap the object to change the perspective and move them all easily to somewhere on the grid - drag the characters around as well - tapping on the D - Pad lets you change the camera angle - move around with the Circle Pad and interact with others by pressing the A-button - the plaza is where old and new animals are gathered - a speech bubble above a head denotes requests - once you've wrapped up the development of a property, a scene will play where the animals interact with the property - animals will say specific things when they are in stores / school or comment on things that are placed around the house - throw in your own favorite characters by purchasing amiibo cards - scan them and they will enter the house or scene - cards also give requests from characters before you even meet them in the game - some characters are exclusive to the cards - put data back on the card and give that information to the friend

In 2002 the art historian Leo Steinberg was awarded the College Art Association's Distinguished Scholar Award He gave, as always and ever, a profoundly interesting but also in this case unexpectedly moving speech.

Alanna Heiss, the indispensable founder of both PS1 and the Clocktower Gallery, gave a funny, moving, and indomitable farewell speech to the site from a spiral staircase.

oit is with indignation that we are speaking othis document is not acceptable • Bolivia owe have learned about this document through the media, not through you onow we are given 60 minutes to accept something already agreed upon by other states owe are seeing actions in a dictatorial way othis is unacceptable and anti-democratic owe say to the people of the world: they shall judge upon it othe rights of our people are not being respected owe are not going to decide about so many lives in only 60 minutes othis is s group of a small number of countries oAPPLAUS • Cuba o4 hours ago Obama announced an agreement which is non-existant owe is behaving like an emperor owe have seen version being discussed by secretive groups in the last hours and days oCuba will not accept your draft declaration oat this conference, there is no consensus on this document oI associate my voice to Tuvalu, Venezuela, Bolivia othe target of 2 degrees is unacceptable o... • Costa Rica ofor the reasons that we have heard, this document can not be considered the work of the AWG - LCA and can not be considered by the COP othis can only be an INF doc, it's just for information oadditional question: in an earlier version, a CP.15 - decision, para. 1: there was a reference to a legally binding instrument to be adopted by the COP onow: we have a new version, but the reference to legally binding instrument disappeared • USA o [wants to speak, but point of order by Nicaragua] • Nicaragua othere is already a precedent where we have not been given the right to speech onow that you have mentioned we finally want to speak • Pres. [moving on] oUS does not appear on my list any more, so next one is Sudan • Sudan othere must be something horribly wrong here oI pushed the button when I saw Nicaragua raising their sign in order to support them • Nicaragua othis is a deterioration of the democratic system oand this happens at the most important conference of the UN for many years owe have draft decisions about how to carry forward the process ostates (lists names) have written a submission: • this has not followed the basic principles of the UN • inclusion • bottom up processes • democratic participation • equality of states oduring this consequence, many states expressed their position against such approaches othe only agreement we recognize is??

Barack Obama did just give a major speech on the environment that has gotten some attention, though — do you think, despite voter apathy on the subject, that the issue could move the needle for a candidate?

By the time, my wife Tanya and I moved from St. Louis to Portland Oregon in February 2017, I gave 20 climate change speeches to that club.

But once again it's more of the «nothing to see, move along» stuff we're oh - so - familiar with at this point in the century... they'll continue with no consequences, like Peter Gleick, they'll be invited to give speeches at the meetings.

This led the Lord Chief Justice, in a recent speech, to say that careful consideration should be given to the possibility of a move to a more inquisitorial procedure.

Lord Hoffmann, giving the leading speech, moved away from the policy considerations which weighed with the Court of Appeal and instead sought to apply established legal principles to resolve the issues.

«Sadly people kind of give you polite space, then move on to the next thing,» she said in her opening speech.