Sentences with phrase «though speaking in the debate»

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Welsh Secretary David Jones will today exercise his right to sit and speak (though not vote) in the Assembly for its debate on the Queen's Speech, including changes to devolution that involve giving income tax raising powers to the Welsh Government, subject to approval in a referendum.

When a debate on Burma took place in 2007 in the aftermath of the regime's brutal suppression of peaceful protests in Burma, William Hague insisted on opening for the Opposition, even though David Miliband was on paternity leave and his then junior minister Meg Munn was deputed to speak for the government.

An additional aspect of this, though, is that the people who've been publicly advocating the relevance / importance of traditional publishing — whether they do so on blogs, in interviews, by debating Joe Konrath, by arguing with the DoJ, or by appearing in federal court — keep doing such a poor job of speaking for the industry.