Sentences with phrase «opening speech on»

P.S. if anyone speaks Japanese, can you translate the opening speech on the radio?

After Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R - Ky., gave his opening speech on the Senate floor on the year - end spending and tax package, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D - Nev., sought to clear the air after Politico reported that the relationship between the two leaders had reached a «new low.»

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U.S. stock index futures pointed to a lower open on Monday as traders eye speeches from Federal Reserve officials.

In her speech, May said: «The best way to raise living standards for all is through economic growth based on free enterprise, operating in inclusive, fair and open rules - based markets.»

During the Q&A for Malcolm Gladwell, who gave an opening keynote speech on differing innovation styles, addressed this point while fielding a question about why so few women - owned companies break the million dollar mark.

China president Xi Jinping is expected to present «the most authoritative interpretation» on China's 40 years of economic reforms and opening up as part of h's keynote speech, as well as announce the establishment of free - trade ports in Chinese provinces potentially including Hainan.

President Xi Jinping promised on Tuesday to open the country's economy further and lower import tariffs on products like cars, in a speech seen as an attempt to defuse the increasingly bitter dispute with the United States and possibly open the way for the start of negotiations after both sides threatened tit - for - tat tariffs.

The chamber's report comes a day after China's President Xi Jinping gave a speech at the World Economic Forum championing open markets, and Beijing unveiled proposals to reduce restrictions on foreign investment in China.

In opening his speech Sunday, Cook put a new twist on the usual request for audience members to silence their phones.

That is partly why in the recent throne speech, the federal government promised to introduce legislation «to ensure that western farmers have the freedom to sell wheat and barley on the open market.»

«The U.S. places great importance on free speech and the value of open public debate,» Hamilton said.

The telegraph taps out a Morse code translation of a portion of the speech Walt Disney made on Disneyland's opening day in 1955:

In his keynote speech at the Boao Forum for Asia on Tuesday — his first to a foreign audience since starting a second term as leader — Xi pledged to open China's doors «wider and wider» to the world.

Chinese president Xi Jinping is set to deliver a keynote speech Tuesday (April 10) at this year's gathering, in which he will give «the most authoritative interpretation» on China's 40 years of economic reforms and opening up,

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.

In the opening minutes of his speech, Mr. Zuckerberg also told the audience that Facebook was refocusing on how to keep people's personal information private and how to ensure that its platform couldn't be abused.

Sen. Ron Wyden (D - OR), who wrote Section 230, warned that changing it would «punch a hole in the legal framework of the open internet» in a speech on the Senate floor.

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He asserted in his speech the need to conclude as early as possible the first review of the bailout in order to open the debate on the debt and also to obtain the necessary funds for bank recapitalization.

The speech notes that the Reserve Bank remains open to further easing of its policy settings if that would, on balance, be beneficial for sustainable growth.

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.

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.

When he cometh forth from the body... on the day of his birth, Thou openest his mouth in speech, Thou suppliest his necessities.

The programme therefore had to be dressed up with the strong affirmation of great words: speeches on «open society, the sign of equality automatically placed between Market and Democracy, the elegy of the so - called deregulation which had come to be the synonym of liberty (without clarifying whose), the anti-state speeches, the state which was considered to be the obvious synonym of bureaucrats, autocrats and idiots, no longer the possible instrument of the management of historic social compromises, founded on democracy.

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.

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.

Would David Cameron and Philip Hammond have ever succeeded in convincing the House of Commons to extend bombing into Syria in that crucial debate on 2nd December 2015 if both had not used the key parts of their opening and closing speeches respectively to remind the house that the purpose of the mission was to cut off «the head of the snake in Raqqa?»

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- Gov. Andrew Cuomo offered the opening shot of his election - year agenda with a State of the State speech that touched on a...

But instead of rehearsing the speech he had memorised, he was being forced to concentrate on a new opening section, endorsing the proposal David Cameron had made that morning to join the US bombing of Isis in Iraq.

That wasn't the only issue addressed during Cuomo's speech; the governor also announced that the new Tappan Zee Bridge — renamed the Mario Cuomo Bridge, for the his late father, the former New York governor — will have its grand opening (presumably with a flashy light show) on August 25.

Professor Ambali who made this claim in his speech delivered at the opening ceremony of the conference on Law and Religion held on Wednesday at the university auditorium warned that it is unacceptable to use antics of religion to violate the law

To recap, there are three big ideas underpinning the concept, according to government speeches and documents: first, a focus on enabling civic action; second, a focus on»em powering communities»; and, third, the opening up of public services, allowing a wider range of organisations (private and voluntary) to deliver services.

But I will covering the opening speeches, where we will see Clegg take on his Tory critics from the dispatch box.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo launched a new open data portal Monday, Open.ny.gov, following through on a promise made in his State of the State speech in January.

In his speech opening the debate on the Lords reform bill, he hinted that the election of the second and third tranche of elected peers, in 2020 and 2025, could be subject to a referendum.

With a week gone by since David Cameron's own speech, open season was apparently declared on the Conservatives during the Liberal Democrat conference.

In his State of the State speech Wednesday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that he would implement a comprehensive statewide open data portal as part of a renewed focus on transparency.

The 23 - minute speech was light on specific policy proposals, but returned often to a theme of opening up state government and reaching across the aisle.

When an article of his coming out appeared on the front page of The New York Times and recirculated on national television, it opened up a new world to a young man who had never left the Northeast: paid speeches, trips to Europe and South America, and the world of New York City.

«He opened it with the key which he had kept on his chain, and its contents began to slide out - a Penguin on Mediaeval Customs, a collection of statistics for exports in 1946, a speech, carefully typed and tabulated, which he had failed to deliver because he hadn't been called, a library book on constitutional government, an unopened letter from an eccentric who used to write to him every day, a few newspaper cuttings, three copies of Hansard, a United Nations report, a grey tie, a clutter of invitations to Mr and Mrs Michael Erskine, and a powder - compact which Jane had once left in the House.»

Twelve schools from across the UK will meet at the British Library for the Institute of Ideas» Debating Matters competition, a weekend of tough yet open debate on difficult contemporary topics where, most importantly, free speech is encouraged.

«To be absolutely clear, I believe in free speech in our universities and in having an open and vigorous debate on Brexit,» Heaton Harris insisted.

Opening the Queen's speech debate on foreign affairs, Ms Beckett told MPs that with the transfer of Najaf in December and Maysan, where some UK troops are based, in January, the process of handing over control to the Iraqi forces was «well underway».

In 1868, however, Ward - Hunt found on opening his box inthe chamber that he had left his speech at home in No 11 Downing Street.

Although Preet Bharara, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, has made Albany corruption a staple of public speeches and news conferences, his prosecutors kept the broader issue out of their opening argument, while Mr. Silver's lawyer touched on it more to suggest that the government had criminalized longstanding political actions that were not crimes.

Opening day: Highlights on Sunday will be opening speech from William Hague (expect a demolition of Gordon Brown) and Boris JOpening day: Highlights on Sunday will be opening speech from William Hague (expect a demolition of Gordon Brown) and Boris Jopening speech from William Hague (expect a demolition of Gordon Brown) and Boris Johnson.

«I hope it's not just a budget - cutting exercise» On the prospect of defence cuts, former army chief General Sir Mike Jackson told Channel 4 News: «I seem to recall Dr Fox in his first speech saying there will be cuts — an interesting opening gambit and not one I care for.

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.