Word: vocalizer
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...According to Ma Ngok, a political scientist at the City University of Hong Kong, Chan could become a dignified face for the territory's vocal but ineffective opposition. She is also helped by the fact that her opponent carries plenty of political baggage. Ip remains unpopular in many quarters for her support of a divisive, and ultimately failed, antisubversion bill. That controversy, which brought half a million Hong Kong people onto the streets in protest in July 2003, led to Ip's resignation as Secretary for Security. Ip recently made a public apology for her aggressive promotion of the bill...
...most vocal detractors of birth-order research question less the findings of the science than the methods. To achieve any kind of statistical significance, investigators must assemble large samples of families and look for patterns among them. But families are very different things-distinguished by size, income, hometown, education, religion, ethnicity and more. Throw enough random factors like those into the mix, and the results you get may be nothing more than interesting junk...
...object of contention between the conservative Popular Party (PP), which has taken to playing it at demonstrations against government policies, and the ruling Socialists, who accuse the opposition of attempting to "appropriate" the symbols of the state. With its pro-Spanish-unity stance, the PP has been noticeably more vocal than other parties in expressing its support for new lyrics...
...vocal accompaniment ended with the sentence, “Dance is just below poetry on the rungs of the ladder of cultural priorities,” seeming to sum up Krolak’s persona’s frustration and bringing new meaning to the rest of the poem. Although the choreography was energetically and whole-heartedly carried out, its bizarre nature prevented the piece from making any meaningful impression...
...public. This time, it's anything but. The two rivals and their supporters have been tearing into each other via the newspapers - albeit via anonymous leaks - for years. And then there were the two 2005 court cases that gave Mbeki cause to fire a man who had become increasingly vocal in his criticism, from the left, of the direction of the ANC government. The corruption charges relating to an arms contract were later withdrawn, and he was cleared of the rape charge - but not before a series of embarrassing revelations about some of his attitudes on women and sex. Zuma...