Sentences with phrase «public speeches like»

If the opposition keep making public speeches like this then that statement is massively pre-mature.

Not exact matches

My stomach felt like I was about to give a public speech, while in the same breath I knew I could walk on water if I tried.

Meanwhile, other big digital newcomers to the media scene, including BuzzFeed and Business Insider, have also been slow to take up the public interest banner long carried by the likes of the New York Times and the Press - Enterprise (a small California paper that, as Liptak explained, took two free speech cases all the way to the Supreme Court in the 1980s).

«The best defense to speech that you don't like about yourself as a public figure is to develop a thick skin.

Quite a public statement — and clever rebuke... and (although I can not prove this) I like to think that Jesus did it with soft public speech....

Spelled out in a lengthy lead editorial entitled «Evangelicals in the Social Struggle,» as well as in books such as Aspects of Christian Social Ethics, Henry's understanding of Christian social responsibility stressed (a) society's need for the spiritual regeneration of all men and women, (b) an interim social program of humanitarian care, ethical proclamation, and personal, structural application, and (c) a theory of limited government centering on certain «freedom rights,» e. g., the rights to public property, free speech, and so on.18 Though the shape of this social ethic thus closely parallels that of the present editorial position of Moody Monthly, it must be distinguished from its counterpart by the time period involved (it pushed others like Moody Monthly into a more active involvement in the social arena), by the intensity of its commitment to social responsibility, by the sophistication of its insight into political theory and practice, and by its willingness to offer structural critique on the American political system.

His 1984 speech to the National Religious Broadcasters is particularly revealing, for there he most obviously makes public a piety which is essentially personal, even private — a piety which takes social form in intimate, bounded and family - like voluntary associations that see themselves in tension with the larger society even as they claim to be its spiritual center.

Bullshit, suggests Chait: Obama has in fact «used exactly the kind of rhetoric Westen accuses him of refusing to deploy,» but structural and practical obstacles like «special interest lobbying, the filibuster, macroeconomic conditions, not to mention certain settled beliefs of public opinion» can defeat the loftiest of presidential speeches.

While many aspects of the speech have already been leaked, like free tuition for many SUNY and CUNY students and better public cybersecurity, local state legislators are looking for other possible proposals.

Unfortunately freedom of speech is contingent to how much money you have given that the media is itself a business that has to make profits as well, so a «lobbyist» like this comes to this program without any ethics, without any remorse but with a lot of money as well to openly acknowledge that: yes, we put money in this governor's elections, we are expecting he pay us back and will stand on our side of the equation, and yes, we have collected (very fast) the private necessary money to run a public relations campaign (of lies if necessary) to guarantee that our privileges are well kept; and he finds a free stand to speak out freely and without appropriate response As far as Liz, I'm not sure if it is only a being naïve issue.

Maloney began his remarks in Kingston by noting that with the event, he had held more town hall meetings in the 19th District than Faso, who has kept his public appearances in the district to small - group gatherings, like one he held at the Kingston Library on Monday; and business meeting appearances, like a January speech to the Ulster County Regional Chamber of Commerce that required payment to attend.

Gordon Brown has admitted he would like to contribute more on the public stage after giving his first speech since leaving Downing Street - at an African Union meeting in Kampala.

Cuomo's take - no - prisoners speech yesterday and policy positions like a freeze on public employee salaries, a property tax cap and support for lifting the charter school cap have made certain segments of the labor community wary of him.

This was what George Osborne's speech on Monday could have been like: the kind of oh - so - sober grimness which has characterised the chancellor's public pronouncements for much of the last five years.

After Silver's January arrest Cuomo gave a speech at NYU outlining grand ethics reform proposals like public financing of campaigns and enacting a full - time legislature.

Ms. Clinton's speech was given high marks by many of those in attendance — some of whom are already, admittedly, big fans of Ms. Clinton, like Ken Sunshine, the public relations executive and former chief of staff to Mr. Dinkins.

In September, he joined thousands of Bronx families and advocates like me at the #PathToPossible rally in Prospect Park, giving an inspiring speech about the power of a great public education and supporting our effort to grow New York City's public charter schools to 200,000 students by 2020.

Several other ideas, like a state hotline for sexual harassment complaints, a statewide database of medical records and $ 4 million for a new office to police campaign finance laws and eventually set up a system of public matching funds, have appeared in newspapers in the days ahead of Cuomo's speech.

In a charismatic speech, Eric L. Adams, the Brooklyn borough president, praised the anti-violence groups that have for years gone into some of the grittiest neighborhoods in the city, like Mr. Adams's native Brownsville, to conduct outreach at candlelight vigils, on street corners, in hospitals and in public housing.

He said after the speech that he liked a lot of it, but was opposed to using taxpayer money to fund public elections.

Like we always remember the Judges, and speeches are made to remind the public and other power bearers that never again should this happen, the Ghana Bar Association must do same.

The state senator, whose turf covers not Maspeth but neighborhoods like Bayside and Whitestone, read a scripted speech that sounded like a laundry list of middle - class outer borough complaints against the present administration: from de Blasio's «narrow - minded anti-motorist» Vision Zero program, to his opposition to bringing the city into line with the rest of the state's two percent property tax cap, to his allegedly insufficient support for co-ops and small senior centers, to the influence of high - power political consultants at City Hall, to the lack of public transit options in the deepest reaches of the city (which the state controls), to his purported failure to shield small businesses from rent hikes, to — yes — his scrapped plans to convert the Holiday Inn into a homeless shelter.

Perhaps, «I noticed how well you handled the crowd in your speech at the conference last month and improving my public speaking skills is something I'd really like to work on.

Ultimately, how much humor you extract from American Dreamz will largely be dependent on your familiarity with the subject matter, particularly in «American Idol», with its emphasis on glitz and drama over actual talent, as well as in the American public's perception of Bush as an intentionally uninformed world leader that makes speeches and engages in policy solely on the advice of his puppeteer handlers, represented here by a very Cheney - like Chief of Staff, played brilliantly by Willem Dafoe (xXx 2, The Life Aquatic).

The teachers unions oppose reforms like Vergara, they oppose free speech lawsuits like Friedrichs vs. the CTA, they oppose charter schools, they fight any attempts to invoke the Parent Trigger Law, and they are continually agitating for more taxes «for the children,» when in reality virtually all new tax revenue for education is poured into the insatiable maw of Wall Street to shore up public sector pension funds.

«I remember my floor speech about the «Little Girls In the Green Jackets» who, like all Georgia students, deserved quality public schools that met their needs,» Morgan said.

This is crucial to the Friedrichs case because the First Amendment protects against compelled political speech, and the CTA — like many public sector unions — takes mandatory agency fees from nonmembers to cover its collective bargaining costs.

While the prime functions of media like the TV and the News Paper is to keep the public well informed of the news and other events - they often end up misinforming the public.The Truman Show Essay should highlight the fact that - even though America is a free country that allows freedom of speech to Continue reading

I look like I'm doing «public speech» but I'm speaking to a lover who I've been separated from for some reason that the texts don't quite explain.

When combined with some of the good ideas from Obama's speech, like greater reliance on clean, cheap hydro - power and increased energy development on public lands such a structure would constitute a substantive and authentically conservative alternative that has been lacking in recent years.

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A number of legal bloggers roundly condemned Jones Day for bringing the suit, with Public Citizen lawyer Paul Alan Levy leading the backlash with his post at the Consumer Law & Policy Blog in which he said that the lawsuit deserved a prize for «grossest abuse of trademark law to suppress speech the plaintiff doesn't like.»

I would have thought it would be public, at least something like this, one of the most famous speeches of the century, a declaration of war.

That, at least for me, is a more comfortable basis for granting even despicable speech like this some public breathing space...

Public Citizen lawyer Paul Alan Levy is winning praise from some corners of the blogosphere for his post at the Consumer Law & Policy Blog in which he says the lawsuit by law firm Jones Day against the Web site BlockShopper.com deserves a prize for «grossest abuse of trademark law to suppress speech the plaintiff doesn't like.»

Mulligan's clearly trying to get the public to think about the current state of copyright law, but, as a «Glee» novice, I kind of like her suggestion of an episode featuring «glee club coach Will Schuester giving his students a tough speech on how they can't do mash - ups anymore because of copyright law.»

On how Facebook will measure its impact on fixing privacy: Zuckerberg wants to be able to measure «the prevalence of different categories of bad content like fake news, hate speech, bullying, terrorism... That's going to end up being the way we should be held accountable and measured by the public... My hope is that over time the playbook and scorecard we put out will also be followed by other internet platforms so that way there can be a standard measure across the industry.»

Halliday's stance is markedly similar the public stance of companies like Facebook and Twitter, whose CEOs cite freedom of speech to justify the lack of oversight on their platforms.

Some jobs and industries require graduate school (you're probably familiar with at least a few in the bunch, like psychology, speech therapy, teaching (in public schools), practicing law, medicine, architecture, and engineering).

Whether you're giving a public speech or formal sales pitch, the key is to act like it's a two - way conversation.