Sentences with phrase «minute speech for»

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

Not exact matches

Everyone had five minutes to prepare for the speech.

I think the speech was mostly because in order for this policy to work, our supervisor has to manually remove the unapproved minutes from our timecards so that we won't be paid for them (paying a supervisor to spend 10 minutes removing 5 minutes from a subordinate's pay doesn't work out for me in a cost / benefit sense but that is the sort of logic we're dealing with at this place).

On Aug. 23, Hettiarachchi took first place for his speech «I See Something,» which clocked in at seven minutes and 20 seconds.

This argues for clear communication through the FOMC meeting statements and minutes, the FOMC's statement concerning its longer - term goals and monetary policy strategy, the Chair's FOMC press conferences and testimonies before Congress, and speeches by the Chair and other FOMC participants.

Neither the Federal Reserve's minutes to April's Federal Open Market Committee meeting nor Chair Janet Yellen's speech this week gave any clear indication of a time frame for interest rate liftoff.

In his 30 - minute speech to donors in Missouri, Trump made a blistering attack against major U.S. allies and global economies, accusing the European Union, China, Japan and South Korea of ripping off the United States for decades and pillaging the U.S. workforce.

When Parkland survivor Emma Gonzalez appeared, before she stood in silence for part of her 6 minute and 20 - second speech, the time it took for a gunman to murder 17 people at her high school.

The tone of the ECB minutes has lowered expectations that Mario Draghi will use next week's speech at an annual Fed symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to set the stage for a shift toward a less accommodative monetary policy.

On Thursday, Mr. Trump refused to even utter the word «gun» in a seven - minute speech on the shooting, instead taking a swipe at demands for action.

During her time on the March for Our Lives stage, Emma González, 18, who has been one of the most prominent of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas survivor - activists, allotted herself six minutes and 20 seconds for her speech: the amount of time, she noted, that it had taken for Nikolas Cruz to slaughter 17 of her schoolmates and injure many more.

Incoming students were required to prepare a five to seven minute speech on a topic of choice and deliver it to a group of peers for evaluation.

Seven minutes is the limit for a speech.

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

Set aside your hypocrisy for one damn minute and understand that regardless of what you may think the posters here are excercising a right that you would like to see taken from them - their right to freedom of speech - if it doesn't meld with what you believe, you see it as wrong... it's not the way the world works... get your head out of your buybull huney and live in the 21st century!

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.

«I worked too hard for my money to bethrowing it away,» he says — a remark that sounds funny coming from a manwho will be paid $ 150,000 to deliver a 30 - minute speech to a group of Carrierair - conditioner salesmen on the following afternoon.

Imagine for a minute you're in middle school and running for class president; you have spent time campaigning and giving speeches to classmates.

The former Chelsea boss, who won the Europa League and League Cup with United last term, reasserted his credentials as the right man for the job during an impassioned 12 - minute speech to the media last week.

Calling your midwife at the end of a pregnancy because you are just realizing an expectation that she has expressed throughout to your wife is fairly inappropriate and demonstrates you haven't safely committed or planned for a safe home birth (waiting to pay her until the very last minute or until she has to give the «or else» speech does the same).

Mr Peter Bone (in the Chair): It might help the hon. Lady to know that I will come back to her for a few minutes once the winding - up speeches are finished.

He received a 10 minute standing ovation at the convention and his concession speech left many thinking «We voted for the wrong guy».

Jacob Rees - Mogg calls a point of order saying it is «customary» for MPs to give way in speeches longer than 20 minutes.

Cuomo arrived slightly after his scheduled 7:00 speech time, mixing for a few minutes.

When my daughter graduated from fifth grade, Manhattan Beep Scott Stringer showed up and gave a three minute speech, congratulating the students for living in «such a diverse city.»

In the governor's 90 - minute speech, just over one minute was spent rehashing ethics and campaign finance proposals and another minute was devoted to a proposal for reporting requirements for political ads on social media.

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.»

Back on June 26, 2009, then - Minority Leader John Boehner talked for over 20 minutes and received a ruling from the chair, when Democrats tried to interrupt him, that «it's the custom of the House to hear the leader's remarks» during morning hour speeches.

Speaking before a standing - room - only crowd of over 350 people for the approximately 45 - minute speech, Poloncarz detailed successes from the first year of his administration including economic development initiatives and better cooperation among governmental partners, while also touching on challenges ahead in upcoming years.

Cuomo, a Democrat positioning himself for a possible presidential bid in 2020, did not mention President Donald Trump until 90 minutes into his 92 - minute speech, but said that the current Republican Congress and administration is «the most hostile and aggressive toward New York in history.»

Joe Holland, John DeFrancisco and Marc Molinaro each addressed the audience at Manhattan's Metropolitan Republican Club for about 25 minutes, with 10 minutes for a speech and 15 minutes for audience Q&A.

As part of the campaign, they have released a minute long video that features excerpts from several of Gillibrand's senate floor speeches where she advocates for changes in the Health Care reform bill to provide more protections for women's reproductive rights, more coverage for pregnant women, and funding for women's health clinics.

«We, the citizens of America, are now joined in a great national effort to rebuild our country and restore its promise for all of our people,» Trump told a crowd of hundreds of thousands in his sixteen minutes, twelve seconds» speech at National Mall.

Not on Wednesday, when Cuomo concluded his 90 - minute State of the State speech with a parting bit of advice for the president, pointing out that the presidential seal on the flag behind the desk in the Oval Office has the Latin motto «E pluribus unum» — out of many, one.

During the 80 - minute speech, he also took aim at the media, blaming them for giving far...

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.

The Democratic governor used his 12 - minute speech at a Harlem fundraiser for Mayer to call for Democratic unity, pointing the finger at the Senate GOP for standing in the way of progressive policy issues that fell out of state budget negotiations.

11:41 - Preposterously, Brooks claims the reason for going against Brown that night was his speech had spent less than two minutes talking about Afghanistan.

Cuomo met with NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio for 30 minutes before delivering his a big speech, and thanked him late in the address for his «help» on homelessness plans, but also jabbed at the mayor throughout his remarks.

At a Meet - the - Candidates Night event at the Rosendale Recreation Center last Thursday evening, sponsored by the Women's Club of Rosendale, about 100 local residents turned out to hear a succession of three - minute «elevator speeches» about the candidacies of contenders for the posts of representatives for the 19th US Congressional District and New York State's 103rd Assembly District, as well as judges for the Ulster County Supreme Court and Family Court.

Cruz, who earlier this year attacked what he called «New York values» espoused by downstate politicians, was considerably more reverential to the crowd of 1,300 people who packed the gymnasium of the Mekeel Christian Academy on Thursday morning for his 30 - minute speech.

In his autumn conference speech Brown promised a referendum on AV, but at the last minute excised a commitment to pass a law setting a date for a referendum after the election.

In 2017, Abbott was criticised after it emerged that in 2011, she charged the University of Birmingham # 1,750 for a 50 - minute speech.

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.

Malliotakis and Massey were given five minutes each for their speech, followed by an audience Q&A that ran about 20 minutes.

His comments came minutes after National Rifle Association head Wayne LaPierre slammed Democrats in a speech that linked the fight over gun control with a broader fight for freedom.

Mahoney, who had a strained relationship with former Syracuse mayor Stephanie Miner, spent about 20 minutes speaking alone with Walsh as the two waited for the governor's speech.

When state Senator George Logan announced that the total time for nominating speeches «shall not exceed two minutes,» the crowd burst out into applause.

In the debate John Bercow, the Speaker, has just said he is reducing the time limit for backbench speeches from five minutes to four minutes.

After Stewart Jackson finished, Nigel Evans, the deputy Speaker, said he was cutting the time limit for backbench speeches to three minutes.