Sentences with phrase «opened a speech by»

Johnston, welcoming MPs back to work after a month - long delay, opened the speech by noting that «the eyes and ears of Canadians turn toward this Parliament, in trust that those who stand here in their place will relentlessly advance and uphold the ideals that are inclusive, honourable, selfless, smart and caring at every turn without fail.»
Back in January, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos opened a speech by proudly telling her audience that she was «perhaps the first person to tell Bernie Sanders to his face that there's no such thing as a free lunch.»
After a brief opening speech by Mr. Malman, the group's co-president, the 2011 candidates for town supervisor, town board, town highway superintendent, and town trustee introduced themselves to the party's attendees.
Dave left after the opening speeches by May and Jeremy Corbyn, only to turn up again just before 10 pm.
While one may find the opening speech by Travolta (Battlefield Earth, The General's Daughter) regarding the sad state of cinema and its lack of realism to be tongue - in - cheek irony, it still does little to justify the following 90 minutes of high - gloss over-the-top predictability.
The opening speech by a member of the SLT was captivating and it was immediately clear that the school, as a whole, had done a lot of thinking about life without levels.
Opening his speech by declaring he was going to be as «controversial as possible», Peal said: «We get told a great teacher isn't a «sage on stage», but a «guide by the side».
On November 15th, the summit started at Haliç Congress Center with the opening speeches by Turkish culture and tourism minister Ertuğrul Günay, Istanbul mayor Kadir Topbaş, and TOBB president Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu.
The first day of GameDev Days was kicked off by an opening speech by Indrek Saar, the Estonian Minister of Culture.
Opening speech by Christoph Tannert at Kunsthaus Erfurt, Germany — «(dis) placement».
In that vein, a few extracts from the opening speech by the new UNECE Executive Secretary Olga Algayerova are worth highlighting -

Not exact matches

South by Southwest attendees will see both President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama deliver keynote addresses, with the president's speech set to open the tech - focused leg of the event today.
One night after reuniting Jon Stewart with his former Colbert Report alter - ego, Colbert opened Tuesday's show by poking fun at Melania Trump for cribbing pieces of her convention speech from Michelle Obama's 2008 speech.
A key moment in this shift was the opening speech at Davos in 2017 by the Chinese President Xi Jinping, where he introduced China as a global superpower at the same time that the U.S. was taking a more inward - looking approach.
Minutes of meetings from the Federal Open Market Committee and speeches by Fed officials suggest that the Federal Reserve has been itching to «normalize» policy for some time now.
By gesturing occasionally and decisively with open palms, you can indicate to your audience that you are confident and invested in the message of your speech.
He opened his whirlwind speech by touting his administration's new tariffs — 25 % on steel imports and 10 % on aluminum imports — before wading into the issues surrounding North Korea, previewing his 2020 campaign slogan, discussing the merits of giving drug dealers the death penalty and attacking a series of familiar targets.
But all indications so far have been of the primacy of the party - state in the economy, just as in every other aspect of life — a fact reiterated by Xi in his opening speech at the Party Congress.
In the absence of stenographic records of speeches, no other course was open; and, I repeat, no one questioned the practice — but no one was deceived by it, or took the speeches as verbatim records.
If Russia's neighbors were Canada and Mexico, rather than Germany, China, Turkey, and Poland, and if its other flanks were guarded by thousands of miles of open ocean, it might have free institutions and long traditions of free speech and the rule of law.
Perhaps more dramatic illustrations are found in hospital wards where a visitor's warm «hello» turns on the light, opens the shutters, straightens the linens, and brightens the faces; or in rural America where a major business transaction is sealed by one man giving his word to another; or in the quiet guidance of Anne Sullivan who with the one word «water» brought Helen Keller into the world of human experience; or in the nation - shaping speeches of Adolf Hitler and Winston Churchill.
Joel Osteen should open up for Rick Perry in a one hour performance for a fifteen minute speech by Rick Perry.
Prof. Fresco's opening remarks of the Sir John Crawford memorial address, where she started her speech by saying «food is not fixed in time», made me think.
Obama delivered an incredibly powerful speech on the opening night of the DNC, criticizing GOP nominee Donald Trump without mentioning him by name.
As your child becomes able to understand what you say and read and is able to communicate with you through speech, you are at a point where you can build on this by asking open - ended questions about a story that you read them and use a serve - and - return exchange when communicating with them to help them build up their vocabulary.
Alarmed, I drilled down and learned that DeVos had opened her CPAC speech by introducing herself this way:
(3) Distinguishing between the two is most reliably done by a certified speech - language pathologist such as Christina, the SLP in our opening story.
By using an open cup, it requires increased jaw stabilization and tongue jaw separation skills needed for speech.
The prime minister used his opening speech to an international conference on Somalia taking place in London to warn that, despite political advances in Somalia like a new president, government and parliament elected by representatives of all clans, the country «still faces desperate poverty».
Osborne should feel infuriated by the business secretary's comments, after the chancellor opened the week with a speech in which the facade of cautious optimism barely concealed the glee of victory.
For those who continue to be obsessed by the size of my government, let me, with due deference to the chairperson of the Economic Management Team, my brilliant Vice President, cite from his speech, two days ago, at Legon, at the opening of the New Year School:
«Mr Brown appeared to have involved about 25 people in the writing of the speech and none of them, with the exception o the person who penned that opening segment, appears to have been by vocation a speechwriter.
One politician will not view or hear the Queen's speech at the opening of parliament as they will be held hostage by her majesty
With a week gone by since David Cameron's own speech, open season was apparently declared on the Conservatives during the Liberal Democrat conference.
Soon the word «together» was being used so many times that the speech was, as The Times» Hugo Rifkind pointed out, starting to sound like the opening of «Go West» by the Pet Shop Boys.
The riposte will do little to ease the anger of secularists and humanists, who were offended by the Pope's opening speech outside Holyrood House.
He opened his speech, though, by recalling how he spent a week with his entire cabinet grappling with the aftermath of a lake effect storm that dumped over seven feet of snow in areas just south of Buffalo.
In a speech to the Lib Dem conference in Bournemouth on Tuesday, Lamb will call for the future of the NHS, social and mental health care, to be addressed by a non-partisan commission, and says he is open to radical ideas on future funding, including a possible NHS tax, or a rise in national insurance contributions to fund extra spending.
The Queen will deliver her speech, written by the government, at the state opening of parliament on Wednesday.
Miliband even pointed to this dichotomy, opening his 2013 speech by quoting the crashed cyclist he helped earlier in the year, who described him as «not geeky at all» in person.
During the 84 - minute speech, Cuomo largely focused on education, proposing to increase school aid by $ 1 billion, increase reliance on teacher evaluations and tie the education investment tax credit to the Dream Act, a bill that would open state tuition assistance programs to undocumented students.
Some audio clips from that coming up a bit later, but right now I'm going to focus on the speech opening the debate by Treasury minister Greg Clark.
Ed Miliband opened his conference speech by talking about the British aid convoy volunteer who has been kidnapped by Islamic State (IS).
Ed Miliband opens his conference speech talking about the British aid convoy volunteer kidnapped by Islamic State.
«The great recession and the election of Andrew Cuomo by a huge margin hit the public sector hard,» Iannuzzi said during his opening speech.
In his keynote speech to his party's spring conference in Southport, Cable said the divide opened up by the June 2016 vote had left the country mired in a «protracted, non-violent civil war».
Here is the LINK to the video of Wayne's opening speech to start the event dubbed by the media as «the world's largest gathering of free minds.»
The aim is to «increase the number of women in leading positions» in academe, government, industry, nonprofit organizations, and elsewhere by «rais [ing] the visibility» of outstanding women, said Ingrid Wünning Tschol, senior vice president for health and science at the Robert Bosch Stiftung, in a speech to the first European Conference for Science Journalists at the Euroscience Open Forum on 22 July.
At the opening of the 67th Lindau Meeting, William E. Moerner presented the keynote speech prepared by Steven Chu, 1997 Nobel Laureate in physics and former U.S. Secretary of Energy.
The event started with the opening speech made by Manabu Noda, the curator of Nagoya City Science Museum, which was followed by the three lectures by astronomers.
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