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He spoke in the House of Commons against Poor Laws, police bills, newspaper tax, Lord's Day observance and for Chartism, Tolpuddle Martyrs, Free trade, Irish independence and, of course, medical reform.
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Disraeli spoke in favour of the measure, arguing that Christianity was " completed Judaism ," and asking of the House of Commons " Where is your Christianity if you do not believe in their Judaism?
In 1885 he warmly supported the project for the reform of the House of Magnates, but on the other hand he jealously defended the inviolability of the Composition of 1867, and on 5 March 1889 in his place in the Upper House spoke against any particularist tampering with the common army.
From time to time Lord Rayleigh participated in the House of Lords ; however, he spoke up only if politics attempted to become involved in science.
On April 22, 1995, the Clintons spoke in the White House with over 40 federal agency employees and their children, and in a live nationwide television and radio broadcast, addressed their concerns.
In 1763 he spoke against the unpopular tax on cider, imposed by his brother-in-law, George Grenville, and his opposition, though unsuccessful in the House, helped to keep alive his popularity with the country, which cordially hated the excise and all connected with it.
On 3 March 1953, Powell spoke against the Royal Titles Bill in the House of Commons.
Even as Scholes and Kerr spoke, Smith reached Parliament House.
Her first son, Henry Pole, was created Baron Montagu, another of the Neville titles ; he spoke for the family in the House of Lords.
He spoke in opposition to the motion " That this House will in no circumstances fight for its King and Country " in a debate of 1933 at the Oxford Union.
Though a junior minister he was sworn of the Privy Council and spoke in the House of Commons for successive Colonial Secretaries Lord Moyne and Lord Cranborne.
One such example occurred October 26, 2006, when he spoke for almost 120 minutes to prevent the Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development from studying a private member's bill to implement the Kyoto Accord.
He also spoke for about 6 hours during the February 5, 2008 and February 7, 2008 at the Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs meetings to block inquiry into allegations that the Conservative Party spent over the maximum allowable campaign limits during the 2006 election.
A notable filibuster took place in the Northern Ireland House of Commons in 1936 when Tommy Henderson ( Independent Unionist MP for Shankill ) spoke for nine and a half hours ( ending just before 4 am ) on the Appropriation Bill.
On March 31, 2009, in testimony that the LA Times viewed as " remarkable ", Ronstadt spoke to the United States Congress ' House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment & Related Agencies, attempting to convince lawmakers to budget $ 200 million in the 2010 fiscal year for the National Endowment of the Arts.
During Parnell's highly successful tour, he had an audience with American President Rutherford B. Hayes, on 2 February 1880 he addressed the House of Representatives on the state of Ireland and spoke in 62 cities including in Canada, where he was so well received in Toronto that Healy dubbed him " the uncrowned king of Ireland ".
" Collins ' books are: " DIETAS Y RECETAS DE MARÍA ANTONIETA " ( Grijalbo / Random House 2001 ) " QUIEN DIJO QUE NO SE PUEDE " ( Grijalbo / Random House 2002 ) " CUANDO EL MONSTRUO DESPIERTA " ( Grijalbo / Random House 2003 ) spoke about domestic violence.
On January 26, President Clinton, standing with his wife, spoke at a White House press conference, and issued a forceful denial, which contained what would later become one of the best-known sound bites of his presidency:
" His last speech in the House of Lords was in 1989, when he spoke against Hurd's proposals for prosecuting war criminals living in Britain: " After such a lapse of time justice might not be seen to be done.
On March 23, 2006, she was a special guest correspondent on The Colbert Report, giving her analysis of the manners with which the White House Press Corps spoke to the President.
On 25 April he spoke in the Commons against Lord John Russell's motion for parliamentary reform and a few days later Canning moved for leave to introduce a measure of Catholic Emancipation ( for lifting the exclusion of Catholics from the House of Lords ).
Jay Carney, the White House Press Secretary at the time, spoke for President Obama on the matter by saying the president does not support, but actually opposes, some of the kind of words and lyrics that have been written by Common and others.
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In early 1956, he spoke for the Housing Subsidies Bill in the Commons and argued for the rejection of an amendment that would have hindered slum clearances.
On 28 April, Powell spoke in the Commons against the Northern Ireland Secretary's ( Jim Prior ) plans for devolution to a power-sharing assembly in Northern Ireland: " We assured the people of the Falkland Islands that there should be no change in their status without their agreement.
On 5 February, Chamberlain spoke effectively in the Commons for over an hour while referring to very few notes.
On 18 April, Fox spoke in the Commons – together with William Wilberforce, Pitt and Burke – in favour of a measure to abolish the slave trade, but – despite their combined rhetorical talents – the vote went against them by a majority of 75.
Coke, despite the fear in Parliament, stood and spoke, citing historical precedents supporting the principle that members of the Commons could, within Parliament, say whatever they wished – something now codified as Parliamentary privilege.
In November Canning spoke out openly in support of Pitt in the Commons.
On 3 August Law spoke openly in the House of Commons, saying that " the Government already know, but I give them now the assurance on behalf of the party of which I am leader in this House, that in whatever steps they think it necessary to take for the honour and security of this country they can rely upon the unhesitating support of the Opposition ".
On 2 August when the Commons debated the Orissa famine in India, Cranborne spoke out against experts, political economy, and the government of Bengal.
He was a member of the committee that drafted the articles of impeachment against Danby in 1678, and was appointed one of the managers of the Commons ; and in 1679, when the impeachment, interrupted by the dissolution of parliament, was resumed in the new parliament, he spoke strongly against the validity of Danby's plea of pardon by the king.
He spoke in favour of a radical resettlement of the constitution, and served on a committee, of which Somers was chairman, for drawing up a new constitution in the form of the Declaration of Right ; and he was one of the representatives of the Commons In their conference with the peers on the question of declaring the throne vacant.
For the next few years after this speech Lord Althorp occasionally spoke in debate and always on the side of Liberalism, but from 1813 to 1818 he was only rarely in the House of Commons.
Townshend remained in opposition until the end of Lord North's ministry and spoke frequently in the House of Commons against the American war.
Captain Godfrey Nicholson MP, himself in the Home Guard, spoke for his colleagues when he said in the House of Commons that the provision of pikes, " if not meant as a joke, was an insult ".
She spoke on the subject in the House of Commons and an article appeared in the Telegraph.
He spoke in the Commons for the first time on 21 May 1997 and in an otherwise traditional maiden speech, joked prophetically about refusing to be intimidated by the Whips.
On 2 September 1939, Neville Chamberlain spoke in a Commons debate and said ( in effect ) that he was not declaring war on Germany immediately for having invaded Poland.
Receiving her award in the crowded House of Commons, she actively spoke out against the possibility that the Children's Commissioner become a figurehead with little real power.
Ministers spoke from a dispatch box in a chamber modelled on the British House of Commons chamber.
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`` The other day Arnold Toynbee spoke against the inveterate tendency of our species to believe in the uniqueness of its religions, its ideologies, and its virtually everything else.
Mitchell was for using it, Jones against, and Sen. Wayne Dumont Jr. R-Warren did not mention it when the three Republican gubernatorial candidates spoke at staggered intervals before 100 persons at the Park Hotel.
On foreign and military policy, Lincoln spoke out against the Mexican – American War, which he attributed to President Polk's desire for " military glory — that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood ".
Scholars who favored Irish parallels directly spoke out against pro-Scandinavian theories, citing them as unjustified.
Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford and a friend of Disraeli's, spoke strongly against the measure and implied that Russell was paying off the Jews for " helping " elect him.
This act was unpopular with the right wing of the Conservative Party, most notably Lord Cranborne ( later the Marquess of Salisbury ), who resigned from the government and spoke against the bill, accusing Disraeli of " a political betrayal which has no parallel in our Parliamentary annals.
The majority of the Central Committee members elected at the 17th Party Congress were killed during, or shortly after, the Great Purge when Nikolai Yezhov and Lavrentiy Beria headed the NKVD Grigory Kaminsky, at a Central Committee meeting, spoke against the Great Purge, and shortly after was arrested and killed.
Steven Hassan in his book Releasing the Bonds spoke decidedly against coercive deprogramming methods using force or threats.
She was later released and after returning to San Francisco spoke out against deprograming but declined to press legal charges against her parents.
Kraepelin spoke out against the barbarous treatment that was prevalent in the psychiatric asylums of the time, and crusaded against alcohol, capital punishment and the imprisonment rather than treatment of the insane.
He spoke out against the method of rote memorization as the method for learning and suggested direct observation as a better way of learning.
He also spoke against government plans to downsize the military.
Douglass spoke out against the movement, urging blacks to stick it out.
German sociologist Johann Plenge spoke of the rise of a " National Socialism " in Germany within what he termed the " ideas of 1914 " that were a declaration of war against the " ideas of 1789 " ( the French Revolution ).
Nawal El Saadawi, the Egyptian feminist physician, spoke out against FGM in 1980.
During the early 1980s, Cossiga attacked several times the antimafia judges and spoke in favour of judge Corrado Carnevale, a member of the Corte di Cassazione ( Italy's supreme court ) who had annulled numerous sentences against mafia leaders and was later tried for these actions.
Stephens considered Fox a gifted young man but the two disagreed on so many issues that he later called Fox mad and spoke against him.
He spoke against the slave trade and the ownership of slaves.
Adams repeatedly spoke out against the " Slave Power ", that is the organized political power of the slave owners who dominated all the southern states and their representation in Congress.
Herod regarded John as a threat, he spoke against Herod and had many followers, so Herod wanted to get rid of him.
Nehru also spoke out against the censorship acts passed by the British government in India.
Florence Welch of Florence and The Machine spoke of Joplin's impact on her own musical prowess in an interview for Why Music Matters in a commercial against piracy:
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