Word: speeching
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...audience could only laugh. Bollinger questioning, combined with Ahmadinejad’s utter lack of engagement, sent a strong message to the audience that his world view is not grounded in reality or rationality. While not discourse in the literal sense, Ahmadinejad’s speech spoke volumes.Ahmadinejad’s invitation and Bollinger’s introduction also served to stimulate discourse by Ahmadinejad’s mere presence. On Monday, Columbia buzzed with protests and debate about Iran which spilled into the streets of New York, the national media, and university campuses nationwide. Regardless of what Ahmadinajad...
...been more than seven months since Obama declared his presidential candidacy, evoking Abraham Lincoln in a soaring speech on the grounds of the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Ill. But up to this point, there have been few signs that he poses a serious threat to Hillary Clinton. Her lead in national polls has solidified in the double digits, and her sure-footed campaign for the Democratic nomination is starting to take on the sheen of inevitability. Obama remains well behind her everywhere but in Iowa, site of the first presidential contest, where the two are locked in a tight...
...metaphor. "We're pursuing a strategy that aims at doing well in Iowa and going on from there." And lately Obama seems to have shifted into a different gear, one that suggests some urgency to gain ground. His debate performances have gotten sharper. He has a new, edgier stump speech that pounds harder at his theme of change and attempts to paint Clinton as what his strategists call a quasi-incumbent. Obama is embracing a more populist approach. His speech to Service Employees International Union members helped persuade them to hold off on an expected endorsement of Edwards...
...Assembly, steadying herself on the desk occupied by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad but apparently ignoring him as he glanced her way. "The despondent despot," gloated the New York Post, "immediately lowered his head again" and sat back to look at his watch and listen as President Bush, in a speech, lambasted Iran's "brutal and repressive" regime. It was left to the Cuban Foreign Minister to snub Bush in turn by walking out on his speech...
...something about Obama was different. Monica wrenched her knee just before the 2004 Democratic Convention and was forced to watch it on TV as her husband--who produced all of the convention's official buttons--toiled behind the scenes. She called Baltes immediately after Obama's keynote speech. "Did you hear that?" Monica gushed...