The younger men, Vere, and Pembroke, who was also Edward's cousin and whose Lusignan blood gave him the swarthy complexion that caused Edward of Carnarvon's irreverent friend, Piers Gaveston, to nickname him `` Joseph the Jew '', were relatively new to the game of diplomacy, but Pontissara had been on missions to Rome before, and Hotham, a man of great learning, `` jocund in speech, agreeable to meet, of honest religion, and pleasing in the eyes of all '', and an archbishop to boot, was as reliable and experienced as Othon himself.

As was to be expected Kennedy's latest speech was greeted with enthusiasm by revenge-seeking circles in Bonn, where officials of the West German government praised it ''.

It seems that Khrushchev himself took a very special pride in having made a world-shaking contribution to Marxist doctrine with his Draft Program ( a large part of his twelve-hour speech at the recent Congress was, in fact, very largely a rehash of that interminable document ).

No doubt, there was still a lot in the Draft Program -- and in Khrushchev's speech -- which left many points obscure.

Her speech was barren of southernisms ; ;

It is said that the eccentric Timothy Dexter, who was one of the first share-holders, stood on the table and made a speech worthy of the occasion.

The `` Essex Journal '' says that he `` delivered an oration on the bridge, which for elegance of style, propriety of speech or force of argument, was truly Ciceronian ''.

The conduct in question was a speech.

If the master of scops who was most responsible for the poem ever used kennings that were traditional, he was at least partly deprived of free will and not inclined towards shrewd and sophisticated misuse of speech elements.

After the preliminary business affair was finished Depew arose and delivered the convincing speech that clinched the nomination for Roosevelt.

Her little speech was totally out of character with the sort of person I thought she was.

Then there was North America, where American was the native speech of all except the twenty descendants of French-Canadians living on the Hudson Bay Preserve.

She meant him well, but was in no condition for articulate speech.

The term allocutio was used by the ancient Romans for the speech made by a commander to his troops, either before a battle or during it, to animate and encourage them.

The " Former Standard ," used for about 300 years or more in speech in refined language, was the " Schönbrunner Deutsch ", a sociolect spoken by the imperial Habsburg Family and the nobility of Austria-Hungary.

This was not a standard in a modern technical sense – it was the social standard of " upper class " speech.

A more detailed account of how the Ashes were given to Ivo Bligh was outlined by his wife, the Countess of Darnley, in 1930 during a speech at a cricket luncheon.

Her speech was reported by the London Times as follows.

In adjectival use, it is generally understood to mean " of or relating to the United States "; for example, " Elvis Presley was an American singer " or " the American President gave a speech today ".

'' For present purposes it may be assumed that this charge so narrowly limited speech as to violate the federal Constitution.

Her teeth chattered so that she made three attempts at speech before she became intelligible.

There, Aaron gained a name for eloquent and persuasive speech, so that when the time came for the demand upon the Pharaoh to release Israel from captivity, Aaron became his brother ’ s nabi, or spokesman, to his own people ( Exodus 7: 1 ) and, after their unwillingness to hear, to the Pharaoh himself ( Exodus 7: 9 ).

In Athens, Paul visits an altar with an inscription dedicated to an unknown god, so when he gives his speech on the Areopagos, he proclaims to worship that same unknown god whom he identifies as the Christian God.

According to Wirt, Henry ended his speech with words that have since become immortalized: " Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?

The computer itself must first be " trained " before the first or second of these methods are used ; that is, the new user enters the system in a special " learning mode " so that the system can learn to identify his handwriting or speech patterns.

Compression of human speech is often performed with even more specialized techniques, so that " speech compression " or " voice coding " is sometimes distinguished as a separate discipline from " audio compression ".

At a parade in 1850, in which over 2, 000 female soldiers participated, one of them began a speech by saying, " As the blacksmith takes an iron bar and by fire changes its fashion, so we have changed our nature.

If Pierre takes a second bite, it is not caused by his pleasure from the first ; If Pierre says, " That was good, so I will take another bite ", his speech act is not caused by the preceding pleasure.

The Rastafari claimed Selassie as God incarnate before and even more so after the Second World War ( see Rastafari movement ) because of his bravery in The Second Italo-Abyssinian War, the way he saved his country and his amazing speech to League of Nations.

Parts of speech are immediately obvious, for example: Τhe suffix-o indicates a noun ,-a an adjective ,-as a present-tense verb, and so on for other grammatical functions.

In one speech, he started speaking in Latin and, as he described each simplification, introduced it into his speech so that by the end he was talking in his new language.

This defiance underlined Monroe's populist ideals and added credit to the local offices that he was so fond of visiting on his speech tours.

Rawls argues from this ' original position ' that we would choose exactly the same political liberties for everyone, like freedom of speech, the right to vote and so on.

Thomas Netter highly esteemed John Kynyngham in that he " so bravely offered himself to the biting speech of the heretic and to words that stung as being without the religion of Christ ".

In the speech he euologised the actions of a German Nazi and Freikorps officer, Leo Schlageter who had been shot whilst engaging in sabotage against French troops occupying the Ruhr ; in doing so Radek sought to explain the reasons why men like Schlageter were drawn towards the far right, and attempted to channel national grievances away from chauvinism and towards the support of the working movement and the Communists

However, when the differences between the speech of different regions at the extremes of the continuum are so great that there is no mutual intelligibility between them, the continuum cannot meaningfully be seen as a single language.

Language contact between Macedonian and Serbo-Croatian reached its height during Yugoslav times, so much so that the colloquial speech of the city of Skopje has been described as a " creolized form of Serbian " ( cf.

A crucial role of this process is the ability of humans from an early age to engage in speech repetition and so quickly acquire a spoken vocabulary from the pronunciation of words spoken around them.

In particular, on 2 December 1964 on the steps of Sproul Hall Mario Savio gave a speech: " There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious — makes you so sick at heart — that you can't take part.

According to Tom Roberts, author of Alex Raymond: His Life and Art ( 2007 ), Capp delivered a stirring speech that was instrumental in changing those rules.

Throughout her speech she kept stressing that “ we should keep things going while things are stirring ” and fears that once the fight for colored rights settles down, it would take a long time to warm people back up to the idea of colored women ’ s having equal rights.

She gives a stirring speech in which she tells him that she must obey her conscience rather than human law.

The pro-silver Cleveland Plain Dealer called Bryan's speech " an eloquent, stirring, and manly appeal ".

In humanity's defense, Kip makes a stirring speech.

In a stirring speech, Abe contends that " a house divided against itself cannot stand ".

Paul, the only son who cares about the steel mill and the workers, gives a very stirring speech.

Starr King arrived in San Francisco aboard Syren just two days after his elder brother's stirring 1861 speech about Washington and the Union, remarking, " Starr has the brains of the family, and I the brawn.

Sandberg delivered what many traditionalist fans considered a stirring speech at his Hall of Fame induction ceremony in 2005.

One of the most notable events of the campaign occurred at the convention in Toronto, the day before the election, when candidate Pierre Ducasse made a stirring speech.

He broadcasts a stirring speech calling for the people to rise up and arrest President Clark, disband Nightwatch, and restore democracy.

Soon after, Magnus found himself involved in a grotesque illegal gladiatorial game, and although he defeated his monstrous opponent and delivered a stirring speech to the crowd decrying their spectation of such a sport, his words failed to get through.

Reagan endorsed Ford after his defeat, and gave an eloquent and stirring speech that overshadowed Ford's own acceptance address.

" Although Tacitus, like many historians of his day, was given to invent stirring speeches for such occasions, Suetonius's speech here is unusually blunt and practical.

Together with the three famous speeches that he gave during the period of the Battle of France ( the " Blood, toil, tears, and sweat " speech of 13 May, the " We shall fight on the beaches " speech of 4 June, and the " This was their finest hour " speech of 18 June ) they form his most stirring rhetoric.

Hirth's stirring speech is rejected by Peter ( Walbrook ), the colony's leader, and even by one of their own ( MacGinnis ) who comes to the aid of Anna ( Johns ) and is summarily tried and executed for the greater crime of trying to break away from the group.

After he gives a stirring speech to the news media, it becomes clear that Dr. Gaius Baltar has become a popular individual in the fleet, and Roslin pressures Gray to drop out so that Baltar can enter the race.