Sentences with phrase «listening to speech in»

It found 10.7 per cent of adults had significant hearing problems when listening to speech in the presence of background noise — but only 2.1 per cent used a hearing aid.

I recall listening to the speech in a car and not wanting the journey to end before May had finished speaking.

I was also honoured that my elder brother, who's an engineer, came and listened to my speech in the Boothroyd Room.»

Not exact matches

Just listen to the urgent speeches from world leaders, and you might think that most governments agree that while we have no sustainable, clean alternative to fossil fuels that we can implement on a large scale today, we need to find one and put it in place quickly.

And since FreeTime is aimed at kids ages 5 to 12, Alexa can even listen for speech impediments and will wake to «Owexa» for kids who have trouble saying the letter «L» in «Alexa.»

Recently, I listened to Martin Luther King's «I Have a Dream» speech at the Center for Civil and Human Rights in downtown Atlanta.

Coleman suggests that every time you give a speech, recognize that you have three audiences: the people sitting in the chairs listening to your message, the event coordinator who booked you to speak, and the people sponsoring the event.

I will listen to Nadella give a version of this speech four times this week — in Dublin, Paris, Berlin, and London.

It's critical to understand why they're listening to you so you can tune your presentation in a manner that makes them more receptive listeners,» said Jim Confalone, co-founder of ProPoint Graphics when he analyzed Jobs» speeches.

«A couple months ago I felt that we had entered an important moment in the history of this country... We were finally beginning to listen to women,» he said in his resignation speech on the chamber floor.

Sitting in the press paddock at the rear of the convention hall of Calgaryâ $ ™ s smart Hyatt hotel last weekend and listening to Rachel Notley deliver a lengthy and triumphal speech to the 850 Dipper de...

The thousands of people in attendance will listen to political speeches, check out the latest firearms, attend gun training courses and socialize.

In the midst of loud speeches and harsh accusations, may we listen well and try to understand.

But one could easily get the impression that his purported Christianity is «milk toast» listening to his «Cairo speech» and remarks at his annual Iftar (Ramadan) speeches in the WH.

The preaching lasts anywhere from 15 minutes to over an hour, and is delivered in speech format — one person talks while the rest listen.

you have never listen to him... but he is correct in one thing... Liberals HATE freedom of speech UNLESS it's a LIBERAL speaking.

James Madison, that staunch advocate of free speech, insisted that the right of people to speak and to listen is not an end in itself, but is a means of achieving «popular government,» by which he meant the democratic process whereby people have the opportunity to take a real part in the decisions which affect their lives.

«In contrast to the whole idea of «silence,» Day of Truth has encouraged students to exercise their free speech rights and have an open dialogue while respectfully listening to others,» Cushman said.

Albee mobilizes our attention to the terror of this environment by inviting us to sit in their home for twelve hours and listen to ordinary speech composed of banalities and trivialities — the ultimate reduction of speech to the most primitive needs of consciousness: survival, taunts, grunts, mimicry, and hate.

John Galt's famed speech at the end of the book, which I have listened to in its entirety (and which would never pass for a speech in real life because Rand got carried away) is filled with angry attacks directed against Christ, albeit without naming him.

Yeah freedom of speech may be a right in many places but there's a lot of situations where being free to be listened to is not considered a right.

Listened to a part of her speech and it was intriguing how she threw god's name in there with all the rest.

The practice in our churches of a person standing up in front of a group of people who sit passively in padded chairs for thirty minutes listening to a speech about a spiritual topic or passage from Scripture is not necessarily wrong; it is just not a practice that can be found within Scripture.

People «believe» all sorts of nonsense, and their «beliefs» are subject to change on a regular basis (listen to any John Kerry speech, in which he begins every other paragraph with «I believe...» followed by his belief of the week.

It was the custom of Athenian society to gather in the agora to listen to speeches by any persons who felt they had something to say and then to quiz them and often to debate them on the validity of their ideas.

These totalitarian fascists in North America use exaggeration, call disagreement hate speech and engender tons of emotion over their cause and too many people listen to them.

Dressing up in a child - sized bunad for Syttende Mai parades in the Scandinavian - rich neighborhood of Ballard, eating the traditional feasts my grandparents would serve us on holidays, listening to the heavy and melodic accent that wove its way through my relatives» speech — this was my upbringing and I loved it.

I know a few of us have in one time or another listened to or read a motivational speech and felt moved and ended up either changing your life or your mood for the moment.

In fact I have listened to his post-match pressers for so long that I can write a Wenger speech for you and you wouldn't know the difference.

My husband and I stayed up way too late here in Virginia to listen to speeches and were very tired this AM but it was all worth it.

Simple repetitive songs and rhymes can be introduced as soon as birth to help your baby sustain and expand her interest in listening to speech sounds.

That's because sucking on a pacifier locks a child's mouth in an unnatural position, making it more difficult for him to develop his tongue and lip muscles normally, says Patricia Hamaguchi, a speech - language pathologist from Cupertino, California, and author of Childhood, Speech, Language, and Listening Problems: What Every Parent Should Know.

Studies show that when babies listen to recordings of play songs, it works better than recordings of infant - directed or adult - directed speech to keep 6 to 9 month old infants in a calm or contented state.

According to Paul, around 6 to 7 months is when your baby's babbling becomes more speech like, and if you listen closely, you can hear changes in inflection and tone when your baby's babbling.

3)... that they will repeat a bad word I used when they weren't supposed to be listening, like when Garrett spilled his goldfish crackers on the floor in the doctor's office and he said «oh shit»... conveniently, I might add, just after the doctor had asked me «So how's the speech therapy going?»

«What impresses me most of all is his willingness to listen, his recognition that legislators and legislatives leaders know what's best for the districts they represent,» Silver said in a speech to state Democrats.

Tory - supporting men and women, usually white and middle - aged, amble around the Escher-esque creation, listening to speeches and talks by politicians who, in many cases, have enjoyed some of the most expensive educations the country can offer.

Al Jazeera's Harry Fawcett, reporting from Hiroshima, said Obama tried in his speech to strike the right balance in terms of the audience in Japan but also people listening to him back in the US.

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.

I have listened carefully to May's speeches ever since and regard her address to the Conservative party conference last month, the one she gave that closed the conference, as one that competes, at least in terms of provocative substance, to the one she delivered to the Police Federation.

So Congressmembers could use social media to send messages OUT to constituents, though I doubt they could listen to many of them in return (comments on Boehner's Facebook post about his speech already number above 4000).

The Tories get about 100 - 200 people to take part in their «primaries», and if the means of election involves going to a meeting to listen to speeches and vote, the numbers aren't feasibly going to be much higher than that.

«Over the past few days, New Yorkers have witnessed this misguided arrogance on full display as the Mayor jetted off to Hamburg, Germany in search of an audience willing to listen to a speech were he extolled the diversity of the riders of our subways, while failing to mention the crisis our transit system faces and the so called «summer of hell» that starts today,» she said.

-- Tell us (as someone above said) how much of his time is spent actually communicating with his constituents compared to sitting around in Westminster making wet speeches — Listen to the people and get together with supposedly like minded MPs and get rid of Brown by the powers they have.

Listen to Rabbi Levin's speech - I am dan lechaf zechus that he gave it in front of a church because as he said, it was Carl Paladino's church, and that made the speech's impact more powerful.

In his Leader's speech, Vince Cable referred to the Grenfell Tower tragedy and the chilling reality that people who have less financial capital or status are listened to less.

He added: «I sat and listened to Theresa's speech and I'll have to be very polite to Theresa when I meet her, but in my opinion she should really address her researchers and advisers very severely for assuring her that a complete nonsense example in her speech was true.»

The two young men had listened to Mario's speech as it began to come together, «and when you work in government... you go through such highs and lows together that you really bond or you wind up very distant from the other person, because you really get to see a person's character,» Andrew Cuomo said.

Ed Miliband notes in his speech today that «millions of people now feel that our country does not work for them, politics does not listen to them and can not answer them ``.

On July 22nd a crowd gathered at Albany High in Albany, New York (the state capital) to hear State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo give a speech about listening to the community.