In his maiden speech in the House of Commons Dewar railed against proposed increase on potato tax.

The debate included the maiden speech by newly-elected NSW Liberal MP Edward St John QC, who used the opportunity to criticize the government's attitude to new evidence about the disaster.

An enraged Holt interrupted St John's speech, in defiance of the parliamentary convention that maiden speeches are heard in silence ; his blunder embarrassed the government and further undermined Holt's support in the Liberal Party.

Pitt's maiden speech in the Commons was delivered in April 1736, in the debate on the congratulatory address to George II on the marriage of his son Frederick, Prince of Wales.

On 16 March 1950, Powell made his maiden speech, speaking on a White Paper on Defence and beginning by saying ," There is no need for me to pretend those feelings of awe and hesitation which assail any hon.

Peel made his maiden speech at the start of the 1810 session, when he was chosen by the Prime Minister, Spencer Perceval, to second the reply to the king's speech.

Heath made his maiden speech in the House of Commons on 26 June 1950, in which he appealed to the Labour Government to participate in the Schuman Plan.

In July 1987, Labour MP Ken Livingstone used his maiden speech to raise the 1975 allegations of a former Army Press officer in Northern Ireland, Colin Wallace, who also alleged a plot to destabilise Wilson.

She later told him, regarding his maiden speech, that he " really must do better than that ".

In his maiden speech before the United States Senate, California Senator David C. Broderick stated, " There is no place in the Union, no place on earth, where labor is so honored and so well rewarded ..." as in California.

He took the title from his former parliamentary seat on the border of the Durham coalfields, and in his maiden speech in the House of Lords he criticised Thatcher's handling of the coal miners ' strike and her characterisation of striking miners as ' the enemy within '.

On 4 August 1876, Chamberlain made his maiden speech in the House of Commons during a debate on elementary schools.

He showed his interest in economic policy in his maiden speech, in which he argued against foreign investment in the domestic economy.

His maiden speech was on a housing subsidies bill.

In her maiden speech to the House of Commons, Cooper said: " The House must not misunderstand me.

His maiden speech was in favor of abolishing the civil disabilities of the Jews.

In September 1992, he made his maiden speech as party leader, about the Government's ERM debacle eight days earlier, saying that John Major was " The devalued Prime Minister of a devalued Government ".

He was elected to the House of Commons at the 1992 general election for Ashfield, making his maiden speech on 20 May 1992, following the retirement of the sitting Labour MP, Frank Haynes.

Rockingham's maiden speech was on 17 March 1752 in support of the Bill which disposed of Scottish lands confiscated in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745.

He made his maiden speech in February 1932 on the subject of economic policy, advocating a cautiously protectionist approach to cheap imports.

She made her maiden speech on her 22nd birthday, within an hour of taking her seat.

On election ( 31 January 1881 ), he rushed to the House of Commons, made his maiden speech next day amid stormy scenes following the arrest of Michael Davitt, then a Land League leader, and was ejected from the Commons all on the same evening.

Lefranc is remembered today, if he is at all, as a consequence of the maiden speech he gave at the Académie française in 1760, which led to him becoming forever known and defined as " the enemy of Voltaire ".

Zoroastrianism states that for the righteous souls, a beautiful maiden, which is the personification of the soul's good thoughts, words and deeds, appears.

Sri Lanka went on to win their maiden championship by defeating Australia by seven wickets in the final, which was held in Lahore.

On August 26, 1959, Ike was aboard the maiden flight of Air Force One, which replaced the previous Presidential aircraft, the Columbine.

He visited Rome with his parents for the first time in 1933, the year of the maiden voyage of the transatlantic ocean liner SS Rex ( which makes an appearance in Amarcord ).

Some of this gas was used in the world's first helium-filled airship, the U. S. Navy's C-7, which flew its maiden voyage from Hampton Roads, Virginia, to Bolling Field in Washington, D. C., on December 1, 1921.

This thorough riddance, this most blessed deliverance, is the only reparation we can make to those heaps and heaps of dead, the violated purity alike of matron and of maiden and of child ; to the civilization which has been affronted and shamed ; to the laws of God, or, if you like, of Allah ; to the moral sense of mankind at large.

* The RMS Titanic, a British ocean liner which was the largest and most elegant ship at that time, strikes an iceberg and sinks in the North Atlantic during its maiden voyage on 15 April 1912.

The predecessor of the medieval bestiary, compiled in Late Antiquity and known as Physiologus ( Φυσιολόγος ), popularized an elaborate allegory in which a unicorn, trapped by a maiden ( representing the Virgin Mary ), stood for the Incarnation.

In the Polanski film, Deneuve first portrayed the character archetype for which she would be nicknamed the " ice maiden.

* NASA is expected to conduct the maiden flight of its Space Launch System, the replacement for the Space Shuttle program, which was ended in 2011.

When a person assumes the family name of his or her spouse, this name replaces the person's original family name, which then becomes a maiden name or birth name.

Feminists prefer " birth name " as a more accurate label for the name received at birth, compared with maiden name, which has been criticized as being archaic and having sexual double standard implications.

* A maiden race is one in which the runners have never won a race.

* An allowance race is one in which the runners run for a higher purse than in a maiden race.

" They usually are for a horse which has broken its maiden but is not ready for stakes company.

* Batavia was a ship of the Dutch East India Company ( VOC ), built in 1628 in Amsterdam, which was struck by mutiny and shipwreck during her maiden voyage.

In it, he fled to Argos, to which he was connected by his descent from Io, the maiden wooed by Zeus and turned into a heifer and pursued by Hera until she found asylum in Egypt.

In this story we have the first example of the standard trope in which the vampire comes through the window at night and attacks a maiden as she lies sleeping.

Diogenes Laertius, after quoting a famous epigram by Cleobulus ( one of ancient Greece's ' seven sages ') in which a maiden sculptured on a tomb is imagined to proclaim her eternal vigilance, quotes Simonides commenting on it in a poem of his own: Stone is broken even by mortal hands.

He also has a special affection for the martyred maiden Saint Winifred who lies at the centre of the first book in the series, A Morbid Taste for Bones, ( though this was not originally the novel chosen to launch the chronicles ), in which Cadfael takes part in an expedition to Wales to excavate the saint's bones and bring them to the Abbey in England, establishing it as a pilgrimage site of healing relics.

The story of Clíodhna exists in several versions, which do not agree with each other except insofar as she seems to have been a Danaan maiden once living in Manannán mac Lir's country, the Land of Youth beyond the sea.

Wolfram von Eschenbach tied the history of Prester John to the Holy Grail legend in his poem Parzival, in which the Prester is the son of the Grail maiden and the Saracen knight Feirefiz.

Maiden Rock, from which legend has it the Dakota maiden called Winona leapt to her doom.