An
"opening speech" is a talk or presentation given at the start of an event or meeting to introduce the topic or purpose of the gathering. It is the first speech that sets the tone and provides initial information to the audience.
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Open the speech with an outline of your key points, then expand upon them and then close with a summary of what you just said.
In opening his speech Sunday, Cook put a new twist on the usual request for audience members to silence their phones.
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.»
Jimmy Kimmel's hilarious
opening speech highlighted some of the Oscar's incredible firsts, including Rachel Morrison, the first woman to be nominated for Best Cinematography.
Opening day: Highlights on Sunday will be
opening speech from William Hague (expect a demolition of Gordon Brown) and Boris Johnson.
«I strongly suggest the members of US - Indonesia aviation working group to keep finding the best way to facilitate Garuda Indonesia and US airlines to materialize Garuda flights to the US and the US airlines» flights to Indonesia,» he said in an official
opening speech on Tuesday.
Atbeginning of the International Conference Mr. Anselmo Reyes, the representativeof Hague Conference on Private International Law Asia Pacific Regional Office, professorof Hong Kong University as well as former Judge of Hong Kong High Court, Mr.Huang Jin, the president of China Association on Private International Law, president of China University of Political Science and Law and Mr. Han Dayuan, the president of Renmin University of China Law School
made opening speeches respectively.
A modest man of carefully chosen words, it was fitting that
Francis opened his speech with two simple words: «Buona sera» (good evening)....
Last Wednesday
Hilary opened his speech with a defence of Corbyn, condemning David Cameron for calling the Labour leader the friend of terrorists.
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.
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.
Nassau County Comptroller George
Maragos opened his speech with a compelling pitch for the state Republican convention delegates: Nominating him to run for Senate can propel the GOP to the party of the American Dream.
Additionally, DGA President Thomas Schlamme awards
ceremony opening speech emphasized the guild's commitment to opposing sexual harassment.
London Mayor, Ken Livingston, presented a
powerful opening speech at the international World Travel Market, which saw some 5,000 visitors from 180 countries arrive at Londonå «s ExCel to shape the travel industry for the year ahead.
On February 20, 2018 Microsoft's Xbox Division Boss Phil Spencer made one of gaming's most
important opening speeches in the history of the medium.
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Back in 1995, Brian Eno's
opening speech at Turner Prize award ceremony caused all kinds of clamor.
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.»
Many advisors will tell you to
open a speech with a joke, but that's not always good advice, especially if your persona or the subject of your speech doesn't readily lend itself to humor.
He campaigned for Trump along the trail, sometimes performing
the opening speech before the Manhattan billionaire took the stage.
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.
Yesterday in Berlin, I gave one of
the opening speeches at the Online Educa conference.
I was chosen to make
the opening speech, arguing against an unregulated free market.
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.
Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen said Germany is ready to step up globally in
her opening speech at the Munich Security Conference.
During
his opening speech to the Cabinet, Tsipras said that the «national salvation» government must eliminate political favoritism and corruption, and implement the reforms that could not be implemented over the past 40 years.
In
his opening speech to the forum on Tuesday, Xi said Belt and Road pacts had been made over the last five years with more than 80 countries and international bodies.
Listen to
his opening speech at the start of the convention.
San Francisco Catholic Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone gave
the opening speech (despite very public pressure from California politicians to skip the event) and Papal Nuncio Carlo Maria Viganò also present.
[1] See for example
his opening speech, 11th October 1962 where he emphasized the need «to use the medicine of mercy rather than the weapons of severity
His opening speech is probably best construed, according to many modern scholars, as an incomplete subordinate clause: in Robert Alter's translation «Though God said, you shall not eat from any tree of the....
In
his opening speech, UN Secretary - General said: «We're not here to talk, we're here to make history».
His opening speech can be read here.
Chairman Ralph Waters admitted as much in
his opening speech to shareholders on Thursday, saying the market has drawn conclusions about the company's outlook that the board does not share.
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».
Read David Cameron's
opening speech to a London - based conference on Somalia in full on politics.co.uk.
Here's
his opening speech in full:
Read Nick Clegg's
opening speech to the Liberal Democrat party conference in full on politics.co.uk.
In
his opening speech at that conference he told delegates that: «It has always been movements and people that change countries and change our world.
In
his opening speech, Treasury spokesman Vince Cable said the plans in the manifesto would make a major dent of # 10 billion in the # 70 billion deficit.
Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said it is a priority in
his opening speech to members as the legislative session began.
But I will covering
the opening speeches, where we will see Clegg take on his Tory critics from the dispatch box.
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