Sentences with phrase «speaker in a given society»

«We are interested in how age and the perception of age from voice influences the social status of a speaker in a given society,» said Signorello, who plans to investigate this further.

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Speakers at the event, held at the Brooklyn Historical Society in Brooklyn Heights, included Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz; John Rhea, the chairman of the New York City Housing Authority; and MaryAnne Gilmartin, executive vice president of commercial development and leasing at Forest City Ratner Companies, who gave an update on the Barclays Center Arena.

Vicky Gough, Schools Adviser at the British Council said: «With more than one billion Mandarin Chinese speakers in the world, it is vital that more of our young people learn this valuable language in order to give them the advantage they need to live in a global society and compete in a global economy.

Surprise, surprise, Teya Ryan was elected as a vice president at the Society of Environmental Journalists» first annual conference in 1991, Stephen Schneider was a speaker at that same conference (full text variation here), and an inset piece Gelbspan wrote within his very last June 1992 article at the Boston Globe quoted Schneider as saying «It is journalistically irresponsible to present both sides as if it were a question of balance... It is irresponsible to give equal time to a few people standing out in left field.»

Finally, a speaker for the Swiss coalition for social and climate Justice denied the role that the had been given to the WWF by the Swiss government as the only official representative of civil society in the official delegation in Copenhagen.