Sentences with word «oration»

Late in the World War II drama «Darkest Hour,» Winston Churchill — played, in case you hadn't heard, by Gary Oldman — delivers his famous «We shall fight on the beaches» speech in the House of Commons, a piece of oration so rousing that it brings his listeners to their feet.

«Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him,» said Antony in his famous funeral oration for Caesar, using emotionally charged rhetoric to whip up the crowd while claiming to do the opposite.

and the parable that is the funeral oration for Rabbi Bun:

Mr Kelvin Lawrence delivered the Jaydon Adams Memorial oration at the closing Day dinner.

Delivering the 2017 Dr Charles Perkins AO Memorial Oration at the University of Sydney this week, Anderson said the Voice mechanism would formally acknowledge the place of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in this country.

It is therefore an optimism about the future, and will remind some of the venerable doctrine of progress over which we have preached so many funeral orations In their zest and optimism such men are still isolated voices, for complaints about the vulgarity and crudeness of a world moving too fast still predominate in intellectual circles.

The aim, she explained during the recent Narrm Oration at the University of Melbourne, is «to elevate the voices of our women, and to guide and influence governments to implement policies and practices that foster agency within our communities and provide the conditions for positive change».

Roger Casement, the highly regarded humanitarian, knighted for his steadfast and unwavering dedication to highlighting the atrocities in the Putumayo region of South America, and prior to that in the Congo in Africa, is shown in the very place where he would deliver his celebrated Speech from the Dock, a speech which is now regarded as one of the greatest orations of all time.

Recently I have been reading and studying the five theological orations by St. Gregory the Theologian (also known as St. Gregory of Nazianzus where he was Bishop....

Occasional mistakes happen anytime — and traffic laws are just ready to give you a long oration of the statutes that you violated or injured.

In this, as in many areas of law and policy, Romlie Mokak's reference to WEH (Bill) Stanner's 1968 Boyer lecture, The Great Australian Silence in his 2016 Medicine and Society Oration titled A question of value: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health is particularly pertinent.

He did not want to comment on recent reports (which have sparked alarm) that former Prime Minister Tony Abbott wants to replace Nigel Scullion as Indigenous Affairs Minister, but said he had been heartened by the recent Dungala Kaeila Oration delivered by Martin Parkinson, the head of Prime Minister and Cabinet, at the Rumbalara Football and Netball Club in Shepparton in regional Victoria.

In one oration given to help Basil raise money for a hospice he was building for lepers outside Caesarea, Gregory writes: «We must open our hearts then to all the poor, to those suffering evil for any reason at all, according to the Scripture that commands us to «rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep.»

As governor, Mario Cuomo's thoughtful and powerful orations brought him national attention, and he did not disappoint.

In a fiery oration on the senate floor, the five - foot - nine - inch vertebrate implored his colleagues to stiffen their spines against pressure from the White House — declaring, «We are not the president's subordinates, we are his equals!»

Cuomo has often tried to strike on economic issues a pocketbook approach that is less wonky than long orations about free trade: What's this going to do for your taxes?

Albert, son of King George V (Michael Gambon), believed he was protected from the humiliations of public oration because his brother Edward (Guy Pearce) was in succession.

There he delivers an impassioned oration against hatred, greed and war.

Looking at this growing, enthusiastic and intelligent group, it is clear that liberal theology is by no means as dead as some of the older funeral orations implied.

Moreover, he goes on to praise the ancient Latin orations for giving «an other - worldly, superhuman atmosphere through their sense of age and mystery», which rather suggests that he was neither as favourable towards a vernacular Mass, nor as opposed to the use of «archaic language», as Fr Hill so confidently declares.

It is very hard for anyone to become master in oration because speaking about any person or about oneself is a very difficult task.

• Professor Arabena delivered the 2015 Alick and Merle Jackomos Oration on June 26 in Melbourne as part of IPAA Victoria's Public Sector Week.

This is an edited and updated version of the speech he delivered as the International Human Rights Day Oration in Victoria on 4 December 2014.

There was a change to the program last year with the NACCHO Ochre Day Jaydon Adams Memorial Oration Dinner held on the last night at the Port Power Football Club in Alberton (Adelaide).

The givers of today's «keynotes» are frequently low - energy folks whose first calling in life clearly is not oration.

Certainly, he understood the power of rhetoric, and he possessed a commanding ability to inspire with his lofty orations.

There is no such thing as a one - size - fits - all anecdote that will turn a speech into a crowd - inspiring oration, and I had to tell her honestly that good speech writing is not a magic trick that entails cherry - picking anecdotes on the order of «Let's win one for the Gipper!»

«Corp [orations are are literally going wild,» he said.

In his opening oration (I Amos I. 3 - ii, 16.)

Indeed, the punch line of Montesino's oration claims precisely this: «You can be sure that in your state you are no more able to be saved than the Moors or Turks, who lack and don't even want the faith of Jesus Christ.»

Yet the story of Montesino's Advent oration doesn't begin with the spirit of progress but with a confession of sin.

While Churchill was a great orator, his words meant much back in those days but how soon does history tend to overlook such orations,,, For is it not a more wiser ambition to live freely among all religious persuasions and cling ever gently upon one's own independent literacies even though self - indulgence of the religious socialisms may give rises toward individualized dementia?

Consider another famous political oration, the 2004 convention speech that vaulted Barack Obama to national fame.

From the moment he entered the nation's consciousness in the summer of 2004, when he delivered a stirring oration at the Democratic convention in support of John Kerry's presidential candidacy, Obama was thought to be modern America's golden - tongued prophet, a kind of Patrick Henry and Martin Luther King in one voice.

From the most learned a good oration fell in proud and gladdening words on every ear, and although it probably did not equal the eloquence of a Clay, an Everett, a Webster, or a Preston, it served to remind every Kentuckian present of the glorious name, the patriotism, the courage, and the virtue of our immortal Washington.

Last week the emotion flowed freely, from a moving oration at Kansas to a tear - jerking upset at Ohio State

THE PRINCIPAL reason for Eaton's Salt Lake — to - Vegas flight is a speaking engagement where he will deliver a heartfelt, hourlong oration that he has spent the last four years whittling down and committing to memory.

Box remembers when Bull Cyclone gave his finest Knute Rockne oration.

Addressing the Labour Women's Conference, she recalls, Foot managed to deliver a 40 minute oration without once noticing the audience before him.

Batterdino only reads statements handed to him and then later claims that he didn't have the chance to fully edit its contents before blurting out extreme and hateful oration....

The governor has used father's name and image in recent speeches and political efforts, and some have speculated he hopes to deliver the much - feted oration this year.

Whereas, Martin Luther King, Jr. was a social activist and leader whose ideas impacted a generation and transformed the social, political, and cultural landscape of our nation; his impassioned «I Have A Dream» speech delivered at the historic March on Washington in August of 1963 was heard in homes across the country and is recognized as one of the most powerful and profound orations in American history

Senator Ruth Hassell - Thompson, once counted among those who would vote against the bill, gave one of the most compelling orations — speaking about the conflicting influences of her elder brother who was gay and fled the country to Europe, and her sister, who is a prominent minister here in America.

orations including traditional and realistic artificial Christmas trees, wreaths and garlands.