Sentences with phrase «maiden speech did»
While the author ridicules the idea, and it is true, Ms. Weingarten's maiden speech did not provide detail (yes, the devil is often in the details), the idea has considerable saliency among significant segments of the education and policy communites.
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In rising to deliver his maiden speech, Glyn Davies began by explaining why he is one of the last few of the new Conservative MPs to make his maiden speech (by my calculation, six of the 146 are still to do so - Fiona Bruce, Jonathan Lord, Stephen Metcalfe, Priti Patel, Dan Poulter and Julian Smith).
When he delivered his maiden speech in the Commons in June 2005, the new MP for Shipley insisted he did not want a job in government.
Badenoch is the MP who memorably said in her maiden speech in the Commons in July: «As Woody Allen said about sex: if it's not messy you're not doing it right.
Indeed, during his maiden speech in yesterday's debate on the Finance Bill he recalled that one biographer of John Neilson Gladstone — a Liberal Conservative predecessor as MP for Ipswich an done of the William Gladstone's brothers — wrote of him that «he took no strong independent line such as would anger his father but accepted his minor role in the scheme of things.»
By those lights, Campbell did a more than decent job in the maiden conference leader's speech.