Sentences with phrase «make big speeches»

Bill Pullman returns as the former President, whose tendency to make big speeches at any opportunity is comic relief of the unintentional variety (and who, in case one needs the reminder, was also once a hotshot fighter pilot).

Party leaders don't need expensive, set piece annual conferences in order to make big speeches.

Arsenal's majority shareholder Stan Kroenke made a big speech about Wenger's ability to lead the Gunners to big titles.

When David Cameron made his big speech in January 2013, he was hoping to unite his party and put the issue to bed until at least after the next general election.

Before Hillary Clinton makes her big speech Thursday night, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is waiting to find out what time he will address the convention, and whether he can live up to the legacy of his father's «Two Cities» speech from 32 years ago.

It has now been two months since Ed Miliband made his big speech intended to nip in the bud the crisis over Labour's trade union funding.

And so President Barack Obama came into office, found NASA in dire straits, commissioned a panel, led by aerospace veteran Norman Augustine, to work the problem, and made a big speech in April.

Usually people say this kind of thing to couples who have been together a long time without becoming parents yet, but there's no need to make a big speech to someone about your surprise over their choice to start the parenthood journey.

In most cases, the CEO calls an all - hands meeting, makes a big speech with big words, and everybody goes back to their desks, feeling not that much different.

Not exact matches

«The biggest challenge now is to make sure that everyone understands what's at stake,» DiCaprio said of the dangers of climate change during his speech onstage at the gala.

If you have a big speech coming up, make time every day to practice.

But one of the biggest resulted from a bizarre off - script non sequitur Geithner made early in his speech.

In a speech at the Progressive Policy - Institute, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros made a remarkable statement about what community means for «a modern, big American city and its relationship with a big Washington bureaucracy.»

For instance if I were giving a speech about feeding the hungry, and I said» I will make every possible effort to feed as many people as I possibly can», in those exact words, and three people that attended that event gave three accounts about what I said one may say,» he said that he's going to help feed the hungry», another says,» he said with a big smile on his face, just after receiving a good luck kiss from his daughter, I will make every effort to feed as many people as possible, and another says,» as his daughter left and with tears in his eyes he said, I will feed as many people as possible», the same event happened but each person chose to only include details they deemed as neccessary, does it contradict the message or the overall event, absolutely not.

I've done lots of presentations and speeches, but this was so special because it's been 11 months since I made the big leap to doing this full time, and because I was so passionate on the topic.

Practising his speech, body language, eye contact, dressing on how to succeed in making a big disappointment look very positive!

andy did you see man citys chief executive gary cook making a speech in new york on how city are gonna do this and do that, and be best and biggest club in the world???? check it out dude its amusing

You don't have to make a big deal about correcting her speech — simply echo what she said, but correctly.

Indeed - and I'm a big fan of your work... (and Stuart White's post last week was a «classic blog» in my view) Fawning aside, I think the issue I had with the Miliband speech (and I made fun of it a bit on my blog this am which is a bit cheap but none of us is perfect) is that is failed to bring that discussion to life.

In a speech in 2010, Cameron enthused about the Big Society, saying: «Things that fire you up in the morning, that drive you, that you truly believe will make a real difference to the country you love, and my great passion is building the Big Society.»

We analyse Blair's speech to the centre - left Progress thinktank and conclude that Blair's biggest legacy is a style of political language which has made obfuscation easier and political vision harder.

Biden will make his first big speech as the vice presidential candidate Wednesday, the third night of the Democratic convention.

Theresa May made an audacious bid for the centre ground in her first big speech as prime minister...

The mayor himself spoke for less than 10 minutes, and though his speech didn't include much in the way of actual policy — he wanted to keep it short for the benefit of those assembled in the cold — he did repeat his promise about making New York «the fairest big city in America.»

Chuka Umunna is among the big name Labour MPs who have left Brighton before Jeremy Corbyn makes his first conference speech as party leader.

The last speech made a big «splash» she jokes - a reference to the reality TV show Mordaunt was on.

On Tuesday, Corbyn will make a speech calling for Britain to remain in the EU, flanked by the leaders of Britain's biggest unions.

Pushing the line that the PM's referendum plans are for the benefit of the Tory party rather than in the national interest, which Labour strategists clearly see as their strongest retort (read: EUreka), the Labour leader insisted that, four hours after the big speech that was six months in the making, Cameron still «can't answer the most basic question of all.»

In his coup speech, Nzeogwu complained about «those that make the country look big for nothing before international circles».

Today, it has emerged (via the New Statesman's George Eaton) that Brown is to make a «big speech» in Edinburgh on Sunday.

«Films can do many things, they can entertain, terrify, they can make us laugh and tell us something about the real world we live in - sorry it's early for a political speech - and in that real world it's getting darker and in the struggle that is coming between rich and poor and the wealthy and the privileged and the big corporations and politicians who speak for them.»

«Your first big event is the Labour Party conference, don't make a long dull speech.

«The biggest risk we face... is the risk of failing to stay true to the values that made our city great, the values that make New York New York,» said Bloomberg, who was uncharacteristically emotion during his speech.

In his biggest speech on Brexit since the referendum, the Labour leader made clear he is ready to sacrifice the UK's ability to strike new trade deals in return for staying in an EU customs union.

De Blasio touted some of his policies during his victory speech Tuesday night, including universal pre-k, but said New York City still needs to become a fairer city and intends to make it the fairest big city in America.

Yet Andrew Cuomo views the ’84 convention speech as the biggest political mistake his father ever made.

Making her keynote platform speech, the shadow foreign secretary set the foundations for her gag by talking about how she would like to see Labour claiming a few big Tory scalps in the next general election.

By making the arguments in a big speech, the PM is nevertheless helping the nationalists.

On the Today programme, Miliband said he would like to see Jeremy Corbyn make an unequivocal case for the EU in his big speech this Thursday.

Get excited: Hillary will be making her official campaign announcement speech at the first big event of her campaign on June 13th.

However, one of the biggest worries of the remain camp is that Corbyn has been making speeches to events around the country but failing to transmit Labour's message to the wider electorate.

Thirty - three years after his father, the late Gov. Mario Cuomo, made himself a potential president with a convention speech that portrayed America as one big family, his son said something eerily similar.

Several senior politicians from Gordon Brown downwards, or upwards, tell me they can attract big crowds at a book festival or at a meeting of Make Poverty History, whereas if they deliver the same speech at a party meeting only a handful of people turn up.

So, while Cameron makes big, persuasive speeches that do at least point him in the right direction, the Labour Party allows itself to be distracted by the smallness of the contest for the succession to Brown after what it regards as certain defeat.

Ed Miliband made the political speech of 2013 by delivering the conference speech with the biggest impact since Osborne's.

«This framework — called the noisy - channel model — grew out of some foundational work in information theory, and now makes a big contribution to things like autocorrect and text - to - speech applications,» explains Yurovsky.

The president agrees and made boosting medical research one of the biggest proposals in his speech.

The president's big announcement at the start of the film is that he's made a deal with the Iranian president and is proceeding to withdraw all troops from the Middle East, a move that comes with a boatload of stunningly puerile speeches, and sparks the ire of right - wingers and big corporations invested in the business of war.

There's plenty of corn to go around: big speeches and pithy comebacks abound, but what makes him such an engaging screenwriter is just as prevalent here as it was in The Social Network.

by Walter Chaw John Dahl's latest foray into knock - off B - movie territory is Joy Ride, a film that indulges an awkward dedication to hiding the face of its villain (which results in the biggest cheat of the film at its conclusion), presents predictably misogynistic victimizations for both of its female characters (followed by weak - wristed salvations), and demands an ironclad suspension of disbelief that the bad guy is omniscient, omnipresent, and only ruthless when there isn't a long speech to be made.