Sentences with phrase «speech to the conference last»

It did with me, because this is how the Guardian reported Alexander's speech to the conference last year.

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Barbara Corcoran on Projecting a Big Image and Living Up to It Highlights from Corcoran's keynote speech at Entrepreneur Magazine's Growth Conference in Dallas early last year.

Last week, U.K. Home Secretary Theresa May gave a speech at the Conservative Party conference in which she said that, «When immigration is too high, when the pace of change is too fast, it's impossible to build a cohesive society.»

She does like YouTube, though: In a speech at Google's developer conference last year, Wojcicki said she had been a strong proponent of Google's decision to buy YouTube for $ 1.65 billion in 2006, after seeing a user - uploaded video of kids lip - syncing to the Backstreet Boys get far more traffic on Google Video than the premium studio content for which she had helped cut deals.

Ed Miliband used his conference speech last autumn to call for the voting age to be lowered from 18 to 16.

Interestingly, the SNP wasted little time last week in framing the election in Scotland as a «two - horse race» between them and the Conservatives, a line repeated by first minister Nicola Sturgeon in her speech to the Scottish Trades Union Conference in Aviemore yesterday.

Today marks Mr Cameron's second speech to the CBI after he pulled out of last year's conference at the last minute.

In his Labour conference speech, McDonnell said a Labour government would legislate for a «real living wage», which he said was likely to be higher in 2020 than the # 10 level he proposed last year.

I have listened carefully to May's speeches ever since and regard her address to the Conservative party conference last month, the one she gave that closed the conference, as one that competes, at least in terms of provocative substance, to the one she delivered to the Police Federation.

Michael Bloomberg, the Mayor of New York City, looks on before delivering his speech to delegates on the last day of the Conservative party conference, in the International Convention Centre on October 10, 2012 in Birmingham, England.

At a press conference early this morning demanding more education funding from the state, Ms. James went after Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the $ 2 billion tax cut plan he unveiled ahead of his State of the State speech last week, separating her from other city lawmakers, including Mayor Bill de Blasio, who have largely refused to criticize the plan.

PW writes: In his visit to the school, Blair confirms that he will step down within the next 12 months and that his forthcoming party conference speech will be his last; he also apologises for the Labour party's recent conduct, saying it «has not been our finest hour».

The «one nation'theme first unveiled in last year's barnstorming conference speech is demonstrating its flexibility by being used to underline the all - inclusive nature of Labour's approach.

Clegg also had a brief section on this in his speech last week, but none of the Westminster parties seem to have a great deal to say about this outside of party conference time.

«Where Gordon Brown's speech to the Labour conference in Manchester last year was personal, this year's address in Brighton was pugnacious.

When Cameron gave clearer voice to his anti-state instincts in his party conference speech last October, support for his party declined in the polls.

There is «apparently no credible plan» as to how to replace the 490,000 public - sector jobs set to be lost, he said at Monday's CBI conference, in his first speech to business leaders since he was elected as party leader last month.

The review, «Housing for the Many», was initiated by Jeremy Corbyn during his speech to Labour Conference last year in Brighton and the work has been led by Shadow Housing Secretary, John Healey MP.

Directly after Cuomo's speech last week, leaders of both conferences said they were unwilling to accept the deal.

Hilton is said to have helped draft the prime minster's Tory conference speech this year — despite standing down as the Cameron's director of strategy in the last parliament.

The Liberal Democrats only gained one of these three points after their party conference speech in Birmingham last week, moving up to 12 %.

Last month only 21 per cent thought he made a good leader, now risen to 40 per cent on the back of his well - received conference speech.

Between the cough and the prankster, Theresa May used her conference speech last week to talk about bringing back the «British Dream».

Jeremy Corbyn may have just been critical of the media in his big speech, but Labour MPs and lobby journalists were out in force to rub shoulders at the Mirror party on the last night of Labour conference.

After his widely - praised speech at last year's party conference, Labour insiders suggested that Ed Miliband was in a position to pick, and in, any fight with his party that he wanted.

Gordon Brown gave a largely unsurprising speech to the UN general assembly last night, setting out his key foreign policy objectives ahead of the G20 summit in Pittsburgh and the UN conference on climate change in Copenhagen.

The MP for Saffron Walden, who impressed many delegates at the Conservative Party conference last October with her speech ahead of Theresa May's keynote address, added: «I don't know whether it's just a fad where people are saying these things and then they'll move on to something else or whether this is now a permanent thing.»

In his autumn conference speech Brown promised a referendum on AV, but at the last minute excised a commitment to pass a law setting a date for a referendum after the election.

In fifth place this week is a piece which suggested that changes to how the British asylum system works could indicate that the home secretary is starting to implement aspects of the immigration speech she delivered to the Conservative party conference last month.

The release of solid policy details is being treated as a direct riposte to Labour claims that the Tories have «no substance», and a defensive manoeuvre against Gordon Brown's detailed and policy - filled conference speech last week.

Ever keen to provide comprehensive coverage of developments in the Conservative Party, here are details of some proposals outlined by shadow culture minister Ed Vaizey in a speech to the London Libraries Conference at the end of last week, but which have not received any attention in the national press.

Washington (CNN)- In his speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference last week, House Minority Leader John Boehner asked the crowd to imagine what Congress would look like if he became Speaker of the House - a prospect that has become more likely as the political environment sours for Democrats.

It was in his party conference speech last autumn that Mr Miliband first divided capitalism between good «producers» who ought to be encouraged and bad «predators» who had to be curbed.

The Labour leader needs to at long last detail a clear line on the deficit in his conference speech.

I'm going to call it a night there, but go to guardian.co.uk / politics in the morning where Andrew Sparrow will be covering the last day of the Lib Dem conference — including Nick Clegg's big speech to the faithful.

At the Tory conference last month, stage staff placed a step behind the lectern to give the diminutive MP a height - boost for her speech.

A jealous Jeremy Corbyn tried to stop Sadiq Khan giving a platform speech at last year's Labour conference.

After David Cameron's well - reviewed conference speech last week, which promised income tax cuts, 39 % of voters say the prime minister and the chancellor, George Osborne, are the team they would most trust «to manage the economy properly», compared with just 19 % who say they would trust the opposition Labour leader, Ed Miliband and his shadow chancellor, Ed Balls.

David Miliband's victory speech that never was to the Labour Party conference last September, leaked to the Guardian, reveals all too clearly the disastrous path down which he would have taken the party to near - extinction, by adopting the Osborne cut - and - slash strategy in full, and indeed perhaps going even further.

Vince Cable has claimed that a section of Theresa May's speech to last year's Conservative conference «could have been taken from Mein Kampf».

Buerkle delivered a nationally - watched speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference's annual convention in suburban Washington last month — an event that candidates often use to raise money.

There was a new confidence and maturity in this speech that wasn't there when he first spoke to a conference as party leader in Bournemouth last year.

As I said in my speech to the Conservative conference here in Birmingham last year, «we forgot that an economy built on debt is not an economy built to last.»

Osborne indicated yesterday he would attempt to make some of the savings by cutting housing benefit from under - 25s - the policy which hastily became the lead story to emerge from David Cameron's leader's speech at last autumn's conference in Manchester.

But the shadow chancellor would do well to remember that, in his conference speech last October, he solemnly promised that «we're all in this together».

Listen to Wendy Alexander's speech last week at the Labour conference, she tried to accuse Cameron of doing just that to stir up a «little Englander» mentality South of the Border.

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.

But her speech did little to lessen opposition to the proposals, as delegates at the conference made a last minute amendment to the motion against the plans to include industrial action.

In her Times essay Ravitch very clearly cites four speeches (including a press conference) and four schools, to illustrate her point that «the accounts of miracle schools demand closer scrutiny»: Obama in his 2011 State of the Union praises the Bruce Randolph School in Denver; then, it's Duncan addressing the 20th Anniversary Teach for America celebration last February commending Urban Prep Academy in Chicago; then Bush (and Obama and Duncan) at a Miami High School event in March, before a crowd of adoring high schoolers being extolled for their progress; finally, Bloomberg gushing over PS - 33 in New York at a 2005 news conference.

But organisers were dismayed to discover Spielman delivered a speech to the annual conference of the Sixth Form College Association last week — four days before the Northern Rocks conference.