Sentences with phrase «valedictory speech»

Then Dennis Van Roekel, outgoing from the NEA's presidency after six long, slow, boring years, gave a long, rambling valedictory speech.

Let's be honest: Most salespeople weren't the high - honors kids competing to give the valedictory speech.

The most observable example of transatlantic tensions in the field of security was perhaps the valedictory speech of Defence Secretary Robert Gates given in Brussels at the midst of the Libyan air campaign in June 2011.

When I left the Speaker's chair in my valedictory speech, I said to the Commons: protect your heritage, cherish your liberties, don't let anybody destroy them.

But unlike Mr Blair, the last Prime Minister to leave office mid-term, Mr Cameron's valedictory speech was not greeted with a standing ovation from the opposition benches.

In his valedictory speech, ultra-nerd Denis Cooverman (Paul Rust) declares his love for the out - of - his - league head cheerleader (Hayden Panettiere) of the title.

In this offbeat, bawdy romance, Denis declares his love for a high - school cheerleader in his valedictory speech — and lives with the consequences.

Some scholars see that renunciation of illusion as Shakespeare's valedictory speech, a goodbye to the magic of theatre and a prelude to his retirement, which followed shortly thereafter.

In her 1969 college commencement address Stephanie decried overpopulation and natural resource exploitation, and vowed to never have children — a statement The New York Times called «perhaps the most anguished... of the year's crop of valedictory speeches.»

Senator Ridgeway makes his valedictory speech in the Senate in the lead up to his final days in Parliament.

Senator Ridgeway makes his valedictory speech in the Senate in the lead up to his last days in Parliament.

He had invited me to give a valedictory speech at his farewell from Curtin University.

I had already written my valedictory speech and I reassured Gavin that I wouldn't really the story at his expense.