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In a public lecture given on 27 September 2005, political opponent Mark Latham accused Heffernan of engaging in the " politics of personal destruction ", and quoted John Hewson ( a former Liberal Party leader ) as saying that John Howard had used Heffernan to distribute dirt and to run his agenda against individuals " for almost as long as I have known him ".
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Popular for his oratory, the ex-President traveled extensively throughout Tennessee and the country on the public lecture circuit.
He did not speak about his poetry in public until 1933 when he gave a lecture, " The Name and Nature of Poetry ", in which he argued that poetry should appeal to emotions rather than to the intellect.
* 1992 – Li Hongzhi gives the first public lecture on Falun Gong in Changchun, People's Republic of China.
* The Geometry of 3-Manifolds ( video ) A public lecture on the Poincaré and geometrization conjectures, given by C. McMullen at Harvard in 2006.
Contrary to von Moll's report, the fossil was not missing ; it was being studied by Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, who gave a public lecture about it on 27 December 1810.
This interview resulted in the cancellation of a Royal Society lecture, along with other public engagements, and his suspension from his administrative position at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
It contains massage therapy clinics open to the public as well as a 140-seat lecture theatre, classrooms and offices.
Liberated from internal factional struggles, he retracted his anti-Parliamentary position and worked for Socialist unity, giving his last public lecture in January 1896 on the subject of " One Socialist Party.
As requested in his will, Bentham's body was dissected as part of a public anatomy lecture.
This included giving a public lecture on " The Dialogue between Science and Religion and Its Significance for the Academy " and an " East-West Dialogue " with Yang Chen-ning, a nobel laureate in physics.
During an interview, he translated the Priestly Blessing which accompanied the sign and described it during a public lecture:
In the modern sequences the dialogue is more realistic, but Bernard consciously assumes some stylization of language: he not only tries out his forthcoming public lecture using heightened, flamboyant rhetoric, but also engages in a polemical piece of " performance art " to diminish Valentine's belief in the supremacy of scientific thought: not through spite, but merely as a " recreation ".
The last work by Fowke was the design for the range of buildings on the north and west sides of the garden, this includes the refreshment rooms, reinstated as the Museum Café in 2006, with the silver gallery above, ( at the time the ceramics gallery ), the top floor has a splendid lecture theatre although this is seldom open to the general public.
* Stanford University has an annual lecture series named after Hofstadter, the Robert Hofstadter Memorial Lectures, which consists of two lectures each year, one oriented toward the general public and the other oriented toward scientists.
In 1837, according to old records, " an amateurish notice was posted on the Rock Mill announcing a public meeting in the lecture room of the village to decide in a democratic way the most suitable name for the vicinity ".
His house ( in Gateshead, England ) was the first in the world lit by a lightbulb, and the world's first electric-light illumination in a public building was for a lecture Swan gave in 1880.
The Lit & Phil Library in Westgate Road, Newcastle, was the first public room lit by electric light during a lecture by Swan on 20 October 1880.
It was attended by 1, 200 people, and included a public reading of Eliade's text in which he recalled the epiphany of his childhood — the lecture was given by novelist Saul Bellow, Eliade's colleague at the University.
In September 2005, she and Danson gave a guest lecture for students at the Clinton School of Public Service where they discussed their roles in public service as well as the foundations and causes in which they are involved.
After economic reversals due to bad investments in the 1850s, and years of litigation and public humiliation, he used a lecture tour, mostly as a temperance speaker, to emerge from debt.
Those opposed to Stone's public appearances tore down posters announcing her engagements and burned cayenne pepper or threw finely ground pepper around the lecture hall to try to drive out listeners.
He was chosen for two years in succession to read the public lecture on rhetoric in the schools and in 1595 became fellow of his college.
She handed these out outside the building where Wilde was about to give a public lecture.
With no precedent for a commoner giving an imperial lecture, he soon became the center of the public attention and extremely busy preparing specimens.
His work influenced not only the writers who gathered around him, forming a movement known as Transcendentalism, but also the public, who heard him lecture.
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That such expansion can be obtained without a raise in taxes is due to growth of the tax digest and sound fiscal planning on the part of the board of commissioners, headed by Chairman Charles O. Emmerich who is demonstrating that the public trust he was given was well placed, and other county officials.
And, given probable public attitudes -- about which reasonably good estimates can be made -- what action is called for to insure necessary support??
For the industry of this model, the effect of such public pressures in the past has been to hold the price well below the short-run profit-maximizing price ( given the wage rate and the level of GNP ), and even below the entry-limited price ( but not below average cost ).
Productivity is something of an amorphous concept and the amount of productivity increase in a given time period is not even well known to the industry, much less to the union or to the public.
However, it is not known to either the union or the public precisely how much of a cost increase is caused by a given change in the basic wage rate, although the companies are presumed to have reliable estimates of this magnitude.
He was given to public carousing and to acting the clown on the diamond ; ;
) The sorry fact about this young man, who was barely of age when he broke into major-league baseball, was that he really was a better ball player than he was given credit for being -- never so good as he claimed, and always an irritant to his associates, but a good steady performer when he could fight down the temptation to orate on his skills or cut up in public.
Natural gas public utility companies would be given the right of eminent domain, under a bill by Sen. Frank Owen 3, of El Paso, to acquire sites for underground storage reservoirs for gas.
Mantle is not normally given to public speaking -- or, for that matter, to private speaking.
* They were given the rights of the Vestal Virgins like the freedom to view public games from the upper seats in the stadium.
The doctrine was formulated in the second century in the first of the three senses given by Ramsey, originally as a response to Gnostic claims of having received secret teaching from Christ or the apostles ; it emphasised the public manner in which the apostles had passed on authentic teaching to those whom they entrusted with the care of the churches they founded and that these in turn had passed it on to their successors.
Critics of this type of argument have tended to point out that this is just a standard criticism of representative democracy — a democratically elected government will not always act in the direction of greatest current public support — and that, therefore, there is no inconsistency in the leaders ' positions given that these countries are parliamentary democracies.
In 1965, members of the U. S. Congress were told " crop destruction is understood to be the more important purpose ... but the emphasis is usually given to the jungle defoliation in public mention of the program.
The first public performance was given by Beethoven himself, Ignaz Schuppanzigh ( violin ) and Josef Linke ( cello ) at the Viennese hotel Zum römischen Kaiser on 11 April 1814, as his deafness continued to encroach upon his ability as a performer.
Watterson has kept away from the public eye and has given no indication of resuming the strip, creating new works based on the characters, or embarking on other projects, though he has published several anthologies of Calvin and Hobbes strips.
Instead of complying with the FBI request, MonkeyBrains published a database website http :// badtrans. monkeybrains. net for the public to determine if a given address has been compromised.
Both countries were run by authoritarian regimes that denied ordinary people the food to which they were entitled when the public food distribution collapsed ; priority was given to the elite classes and the military.
Similarly, changes in the collection and / or calculation of data on crime may affect the public perceptions of the extent of any given " crime problem ".
It was this authority of the Roman censors which eventually developed into the modern meaning of " censor " and " censorship "— i. e., officials who review published material and forbid the publication of material judged to be contrary to " public morality " as the term is interpreted in a given political and social environment.
Branch churches also sponsor annual public talks ( called lectures ) given by speakers selected annually by the Board of Lectureship in Boston.
* Another reason given in the 1987 story " The Secret Revealed " was the public simply does not know that Superman has a secret identity, considering he does not wear a mask, which implies to most that he has nothing to hide.
Trumbo was publicly given credit for two blockbuster films: Otto Preminger made public that Trumbo wrote the screenplay for the smash hit, Exodus, and Kirk Douglas publicly announced that Trumbo was the screenwriter of Spartacus.
In the Netherlands, the " school struggle " ( schoolstrijd ) concluded in 1917 with public and private schools being given equal financial status under the constitution, leading to a de facto system of school vouchers.
At the end of the commentary Simplicius wrote: " Nor does my writing this commentary prove beneficial to others only, for I myself have already found great advantage from it, by the agreeable diversion it has given me, in a season of trouble and public calamity.
Austerity measures were introduced: public spending was cut, there was a tax and VAT increase and public employees were given a 10 % wage-cut.
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