Sentences with phrase «stage for a speech»

This sets the stage for ANY speech of any type — because if you don't like what you are hearing, it is your choice to LEAVE.

Cuomo's immediate family was in the crowd, but did not join him on the stage for the speech (they did come up at the very end just before he departed without taking questions from the press).

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«We respect, and naturally we demand respect, for our country,» he said in an emotional speech to members of the Italian community in Munich, the first stage of a state visit that includes talks with Merkel in Berlin on Thursday.

When Jeffrey Orr took the stage in Toronto to receive the Ivey Business Leader Award for 2015, the audience probably wasn't expecting much from his speech, owing to his low profile.

The cast and creative team for «La La Land» had already taken to the stage to begin delivering acceptance speeches when one of the producers interrupted the proceedings to say that the award had been given to the wrong movie, and that «Moonlight» was the real victor.

The tone of the ECB minutes has lowered expectations that Mario Draghi will use next week's speech at an annual Fed symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to set the stage for a shift toward a less accommodative monetary policy.

During her time on the March for Our Lives stage, Emma González, 18, who has been one of the most prominent of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas survivor - activists, allotted herself six minutes and 20 seconds for her speech: the amount of time, she noted, that it had taken for Nikolas Cruz to slaughter 17 of her schoolmates and injure many more.

«Sounds of Silence,» for example, is a song that attacks a feature of modernity, conformist inauthentic speech / reticence, that to some extent spans the entire period of modernity but which seems particularly strong during one stage of it, that of intermediate modernity.

A Gothic basilica in the Italian city of Florence will become the stage on Friday for a speech Theresa May hopes will unlock stalled Brexit talks.

Well I get up on stage for the awards and I realize that a local politician who was presenting for business person of a year had a full two page speech written out... well shit.

Going by what is happening at the global stage, there is again, a telling proof that «for democracy to succeed, a relative level of literacy, a growing middle class, and political institutions that support free speech and human rights is desirable.

Ex-Tory MP for Burton holds the 20th century record for the longest Commons speech during the Water Fluoridation Bill's committee stage on 6 March, 1985.

Downstairs, there's a separate staging area for press conferences where the candidates will be brought after their acceptance speeches.

Attending on Saturday, when most of the elected officials and some of the attendees had departed from the two day meeting, Gillibrand had the stage to herself for a speech and Q&A.

My prediction here is that we may see the type of stage managed applause for the PM that was orchestrated by party staff for Iain Duncan Smith's Tory conference speech in 2003.

The Labour frontbencher was speaking in the Commons this afternoon when he sought to present the prime minister's keynote speech as a win for Labour, with May having ruled out a hard Brexit «at this stage».

In a speech at a naval base in Plymouth, Tony Blair emphasised the need for Britain to continue to play a role in international military engagements and rejected the idea that the UK should stand aside on the world stage.

But that event, plus a couple of speeches, earned Bharara a rebuke from a federal judge who criticized the prosecutor for staging a possibly prejudicial «media blitz.»

What he also said in that speech was that at some stage in this parliament the Conservative party rather than the coalition government would publish a bill to provide for a referendum by halfway through the next parliament, so 2017.

Silver was in Albany yesterday and sat on the stage in the Empire State Convention Center for Cuomo's big speech.

Ed Miliband had a passage in his stump speech on the circuit of pre-Christmas Westminster receptions where he talked about the unprecedented position of strength Labour is in for a new opposition, with such a lead at this stage in the parliament.

The move aside from defence comes after his plan to announce support for Trident nuclear submarines was axed just before he went on stage during a conference speech.

It stood in contrast to the reception for Republican standard bearer Rob Astorino, who chided business leaders in a Thursday evening speech and confronted the governor before he took the stage.

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.

He faced anger from Muslim groups for «patronising» them and was accused of playing into the hands of extremists by delivering that speech on the same day that the English Defence League staged a major show of strength in Luton.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo formally accepted his party's nomination Thursday for a second term, while delivering a stage show and a speech with sights set on a larger stage.

New speech analysis tests could also help doctors screen for several other cognitive and mental health ailments, such as dementia and depression, that can be difficult to detect in their early stages.

A new DNA analysis reveals key evolutionary changes that reshaped our faces and larynxes, and which may have set the stage for complex speech.

Activists often slam large pharmaceutical companies for failing to develop drugs that are of critical importance to the developing world.Andrew Witty, GlaxoSmithKline's youthful chief executive, gave those critics pause yesterday in a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City.Witty promised to sell the company's malaria vaccine that is in late - stage clinical trials in Africa for no more than a 5 percent profit.

It's too bad that Wiseau did not get a chance to deliver such stirring words on stage — though for what it's worth, we're guessing Hugh Jackman's reaction to the speech would have been about the same either way.

On Sunday night, the Disaster Artist director brought his inspiration on stage at the Golden Globes before delivering an acceptance speech for Franco's newly won best - actor award.

The Room fans watched the Golden Globes in awe as James Franco brought things full circle for Tommy Wiseau who came on stage during his emotional speech after winning Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical for The Disaster Artist.

Kate Winslet kept it together for her first gong, but when she picked her Best Actress (Drama) award, even some sage words from Thompson on her way to the stage couldn't help her blubbering love fest speech («And to the make - up and hair department...» seriously, the amount of people she gave props to, I felt kind of left out).

«The Crown» and «Doctor Foster» star Victoria Hamilton also used her acceptance speech for her role in stage play «Albion» to commend the changes in the industry in response to the MeToo and Time's Up movements.

One of the night's more memorable wins, due to the gimmicky nature of the film — Franco even doing his Wiseau mimicry in his speech — and for Tommy Wiseau joining him on stage (though not permitted to speak!).

There was a little speech, which I did not deliver in song, alas, but the text of my introductory essay, from the awards booklet, reads as follows: «It's been a breakthrough and haphazardly maternal sort of year on the big screen for Tony - nominated stage actress Amy Ryan, with a slate of film roles in which she memorably portrays caregivers both attentive and criminally negligent.

You're given 45 seconds for your speech from the time your name is read — not from the moment you get on stage.

Every Hatha - action was dissected ad infinitum — her rushing the stage at the Golden Globes, for instance, to list names she'd forgotten in her acceptance speech wasn't just an embarrassing slip - up but evidence of narcissism.

The Oscars are about big moments; they're about Roberto Benigni climbing across chairs to the stage, and Louise Fletcher signing her speech to her deaf parents, and Michael Moore getting booed for denouncing the Iraq War, and Vanessa Redgrave getting booed for saying «Zionist hoodlums.»

The preparation that went into that six - minute speech was tremendous, but nothing prepared me for the moment of actually walking on the stage to deliver the speech.

On the Thursday, former principal dancer for the Royal Ballet, and judge for the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing, Darcey Bussell CBE, gave a speech about the benefits of dance fitness and the importance of physical literacy in schools, and respected educator Toby Young took the stage to discuss the future of education reform.

And Len Vygotsky because he was in Marxist Russia at the beginning of the revolution, came up with the best speech signing system for deaf children ever, as well as a new theory of mathematics... and he went head to head against Piaget, against stages of development, and came up with the theory of learning, which is profoundly wonderful today.

On the stage of the Garfield High School auditorium where she gave the «state of the district» speech in August, she crouched down to pose for selfies, flashing a bright smile.

And second, you have the right to buy a computer program that turns that text into speech, but you can't then set that computer up on a stage (god forbid the sorry results of that) and have it talk to an audience whose sorry ass wallets have been lightened for the privilege.

A woman who can ditch her rock - stage persona, stand at a podium, and read a soaringly articulate speech to 800 riveted writers — a speech she confesses to them was finished in the car on the way to the keynote — is someone so formidably in touch with her purpose that when she says to the room, «Thank you for connecting the dots,» those dots are minds conjoined and lifted together on a tide of incorporated interplay: conference.

Following JetSetSarah's amazing speech, our panelists took the stage, including Kimberly Wilson (Travel Writer and Social Media Manager for The Grio), Yvonne Pearson (Tourism Marketing Coordinator at National Harbor), Keisha Nelson (Account Executive at USVI Tourism), Imani Rodman (PR Executive at M Booth) and Diana Limongi (Founder of DLG Media).

(That is not just a figure of speech; Miyamoto literally called out another developer for designing a Mario Maker stage like that.)

On stage, at the E3 gaming convention just three weeks after the Xbox One's announcement, then - CEO Jack Tretton delivered a borderline quiet speech, stating in a slow cadence that Sony «focused what gamers want most... for instance, PS4 won't impose any new restrictions on the use of --» The discernibility of the quote cuts out there because the crowd is cheering so loud, knowing that the full system resources of the PS4 would be made available to developers.

This game does not concern itself with a plot, disguising dialogue (say, from a news program) in a semi-guttural speech usually reserved for adults in Charlie Brown, and the progression of stages — from a college campus, to a town, to the moon, and back — makes very little sense, even in the context of the game.

They included Carlos Garaicoa, Los Carpinteros (then a three - man collective), Alexis Leiva Machado (who goes by Kcho and is a superstar in Cuba), and the performance artist Tania Bruguera, a cause célèbre since her arrest and detainment for creating a public disturbance days after Obama's pronouncement, when she attempted to stage a free - speech rally in Revolution Square.