Sentences with phrase «who listened to that speech»

Fourteen hundred of the AB folks who listened to that speech were later fired.

Also, if you give speeches at your meetings and collect money from people who listen to your speeches, that is income...

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And since FreeTime is aimed at kids ages 5 to 12, Alexa can even listen for speech impediments and will wake to «Owexa» for kids who have trouble saying the letter «L» in «Alexa.»

Coleman suggests that every time you give a speech, recognize that you have three audiences: the people sitting in the chairs listening to your message, the event coordinator who booked you to speak, and the people sponsoring the event.

China's 19th Party Congress began Wednesday with a three - and - a-half-hour speech by Xi Jinping, a telling sign of a man who knows he has to be listened to.

And if by some chance the people that fail to remeber our basic write to freedom of speech can be linked to some offshore third world IT person who can listen for 10 cents an hour.

The practice in our churches of a person standing up in front of a group of people who sit passively in padded chairs for thirty minutes listening to a speech about a spiritual topic or passage from Scripture is not necessarily wrong; it is just not a practice that can be found within Scripture.

It was the custom of Athenian society to gather in the agora to listen to speeches by any persons who felt they had something to say and then to quiz them and often to debate them on the validity of their ideas.

But you wouldn't know it by listening to an angry coalition of high school students who plan to speak out on Chicago Public Schools meals Wednesday at the monthly Chicago Board of Education meeting.One of those students is Teresa Onstott, a sophomore at Social Justice High School who last week practiced a speech that details the «sickening pizza, chicken sandwiches and nachos» the district serves each day and urges the board not to renew the contract for the company providing the food.

Tory - supporting men and women, usually white and middle - aged, amble around the Escher-esque creation, listening to speeches and talks by politicians who, in many cases, have enjoyed some of the most expensive educations the country can offer.

In his Leader's speech, Vince Cable referred to the Grenfell Tower tragedy and the chilling reality that people who have less financial capital or status are listened to less.

After delivering a speech participants acknowledged as in - depth and inspiring on his party's policies, the man whose oratory has been lauded by many who have critically listened to him, said the lavish structure is not disability friendly since no one ever believes that someone in a wheelchair will ever be President in Ghana.

Maybe it was Ed, for instance, who described how he, Brown and Charlie Whelan were listening to Blair's party conference speech on a car radio when Brown suddenly started heckling («He didn't want that... He opposed that...») And surely it could only have been Whelan, still spinning even in his political grave, who described the Chancellor's fury after being «ambushed» about the Ecclestone donation on the Today programme, for who else but our Charlie would say «Gordon went mental»?

I was also honoured that my elder brother, who's an engineer, came and listened to my speech in the Boothroyd Room.»

«When I listened to the governor's speech last week, boy was it ambitious,» said Flanagan, who said he'd rather talk about improving the state's economic picture.

People who braved the stormy weather to listen to the County Executive's address had mixed reaction to his speech.

Many of those who do may have listened to Mr Balls's speech and been enchanted by it.

Flat Eagle, who has been a member of NAN for many years, listened to the speeches after time spent on a long line.

The findings may one day inspire speech therapy approaches that teach people to notice changes in mouth position rather than listening for changes in sounds, says Shari Baum, a neurolinguist at McGill University who was not involved in the research.

Pete Docter seems to be the only one (so far) who has really grasped the concept of the Academy tweaking the acceptance speech formats (scrolling across the screen a list of the names the winners would like to thank and thus saving all of us from listening to that trollop).

Interested community members might include a local congresswoman who can listen to student speeches on public policy or a deli owner who can review posters students create on healthy eating.

And listening to his speeches, one can identify with the little girl shown in Street Fight who, after meeting Booker, acts as if she's just encountered a movie star.

Last week, when Obama gave his speech to Congress, the thuggish Trumka was part of a small group who sat with Mrs. Obama listening to the President spew out yet another stimulus plan (how'd that last one work out, Mr. President?)

When the message is only about 20 percent of the students — even if you're talking about the 20 percent who really are those most in need of help (although they all deserve help, and have a civil right to it)-- it's hard to win a popular election with that message; and listening to the candidates» impassioned speeches about those students, even if the speeches are nobly motivated, can feel oddly alienating and exclusive to middle class parents who are concerned about their own children's too often declining prospects.

When you listen to his best speeches, you see a person who really could herald a new political era.

With their mix of advice, humor and encouragement, any entry in this quartet would make a thoughtful gift for those about to leap into the real world.YOUR FUTURE LIES AHEADAnyone who's delivered a graduation speech, or listened to one, or hopes to make one...

Besides making eReaders more accesible to people who have problems with their vision, it text - to - speech (or for that matter buying an eBook - AudioBook combo) could very useful for people learning new languages, reading a book in their target language and listening to it being spoken at the same time.

A Brigham Young University study found that when someone's speech pattern is slowed down by 30 %, they appear less fluent, less persuasive, and less truthful to the person who's listening to them.

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According to her, her biggest inspiration was the free speech movement, which engendered for her the idea of autonomy; not listening to someone who is in power, eventually, the creation of one own's power.

In his victory speech on Nov. 9, Trump pledged to listen to people with differing views, so perhaps he'll reach out beyond Walker in weighing next steps for NASA to people like David Titley, a retired Navy rear admiral and former Oceanographer of the Navy, who has written a comprehensive overview of the value NASA earth science provides to society, including to national security.