Sentences with phrase «minute speech»

The only time international youth are allowed to sit in the negotiations is when they are giving an intervention: a two - minute speech at the end of a long negotiation session.

When asked to give a two - minute speech on camera, the excited participants spoke longer and were seen as more persuasive, confident, and persistent.

Originally developed for parents of adult children with chronic mental illness, the five - minute speech sample has more recently been used among parents of younger children, with inconsistent results.

Each worker prepares and presents a three minute speech before a panel upon completion.

The number of words that are in a five - minute speech depends on how fast the speaker talks, but usually averages between 600 words and 900 words.

In front of his city council, he recently gave this four minute speech defending law abiding gun owners.

An elevator speech is your brief three - minute speech introducing yourself and describing your professional career and target position.

Write up 7 two - minute speeches about your unique selling propositions.

Give a 10 - minute speech on a scientific topic to your significant other.

Sleeves rolled up, Ignatieff ripped through a 15 - minute speech in which he mocked Harper, invoked Barack Obama, and answered his own question — «Are we ready to serve the people who put us here?»

Nick Clegg says the Liberal Democrats should be proud of their record in government when he addresses party members with a 50 - minute speech which closed the conference in Glasgow.

Last night, the Republican National Convention wrapped with the 75 - minute speech of presidential candidate Donald Trump.

The singer prefaced Sanders» appearance with a four minute speech explaining why he supports the Democratic candidate.

To a gender - segregated audience, Olayan delivered «A Saudi Vision for Growth» — a 15 - minute speech calling for a prosperous, diversified economy that included «more jobs and career opportunities for women.»

In the 90 - minute speech from an unusually large podium, Cuomo outlined his reform plan for the criminal justice system.

Despite warning that the «day of reckoning» has arrived, Miner's 40 - minute speech offered an upbeat vision of new opportunities arising from crisis.

Below is the text from my eight minute speech for St. Louis South County Toastmasters for the the April 11, 2012 meeting.

Facing a trial before the House Ethics Committee, he gave a rambling, 30 - minute speech attacking the committee, the Republicans, his fellow Democrats and even his own lawyers.

The French Minister of Finance, Bruno Le Maire, gave a forty minute speech today where he snubbed «the risks of speculation, especially related to bitcoin.»

Swearing in the new Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr John Kudalor, at the Flagstaff House Friday, the President devoted his five - minute speech mainly to road accidents, which he said were taking away precious lives.

Far above any protesters or discordant views Cuomo's 40 minute speech provided an array of new programs and funding, a congratulatory look at his six years in office and an outline of how Cuomo may seek a prominent national role during the Trump presidency.

Cuomo didn't once mention his fellow Democrat, who was in attendance, during his 67 - minute speech Wednesday — despite giving shoutouts to ex-Gov.

Still, Ms. Mark - Viverito's 52 - minute speech amounted to a clear statement of legislative intent, with the speaker outlining more than two dozen policy ideas aimed at helping less affluent New Yorkers.

Malliotakis» ten minute speech touched on her main campaign themes and illustrated her campaign personna.

18:26 - He spends more time than one would advise on the history of gay rights, given the four minute speech limit.

Trump did spend most of his 30 minute speech critiquing Gov. Andrew Cuomo's leadership.

U.S. Sen Kirsten Gillibrand's 15 - minute speech earlier at the conference did allow media.

His announcement at Liberty University was impressive, and he was passionate and precise in a 40 - minute speech without notes or TelePrompter.

He closed the 92 - minute speech with an elegiac plea for people to put aside their differences, and work together for the betterment of their state.

The 26 - minute speech also attacked Gov. Andrew Cuomo's economic development policies, state mandates and Destiny USA's renewed request for tax breaks.

His 20 - minute speech focused on what he percieves as high points of his nearly eight years in office, from enacting tougher gun control legislation to raising the minimum wage to new protections for transgender people.

And in a deep 2 - minute speech near the end, food critic Anton Ego (voiced by the late Peter O'Toole), peels back the layers on criticism:

The real challenge came next: turning that two - minute speech into a full multi-media presentation for a larger audience.

The five - minute speech addressed the dangers of rising sea levels to Tuvalu and the world.

With nearly one - third of Obama's 17 - minute speech devoted to long - term energy reform, critics complained that the president gave the immediate crisis short shrift and provided no new details.

But his 45 - minute speech seemed to boil down to a pretty simple message — that technology is changing the world and that we must embrace this change by becoming producers of content and by engaging in online and social media.

Heintzman observed that the biggest mistake a lawyer can make in the Supreme Court is to insist on making a 60 - minute speech while warding off any judicial attempt to take him off course.

Emma Gonzalez, a Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student, read a 10 - minute speech during a gun - control rally in front of the federal court building in Fort Lauderdale.

Clinton's comments came during a 32 - minute speech in which she took aim at Walker and his signature legislation that all but eliminated collective bargaining rights for most public employees and his proposal in the last state budget to cut funding for higher education.

Joel Osteen should open up for Rick Perry in a one hour performance for a fifteen minute speech by Rick Perry.

Modification and preliminary use of the five - minute speech sample in the postpartum: associations with postnatal depression and posttraumatic stress.

Just seen the question put to Ivan gazidis at yesters q and a Dad sent me voiceclip of Graham perry's «question» Essentially a 5 minute speech about why wenger and th club is amazing

Full 90 - minute speech of Mr. D'Souza at Brandeis University.

During her first - ever speech before the Association for a Better New York — a nearly 30 - minute speech which drew a mere 90 attendees — Malliotakis mainly rehashed her usual criticisms of de Blasio: an insufficient plan to address the homelessness crisis, a need to better tackle mental health issues, troubled schools, the city's overspending and public urination.

Recently, her Honors Public Speaking teacher assigned a persuasive / informative speech in which each student in the class was required to select a charity and give a 6 - 10 minute speech explaining the charity, what it does, and try to persuade the class to donate to that charity.