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speech and accepting
Non-cognitivism entails that non-cognitive attitudes underlie moral discourse and this discourse therefore consists of non-declarative speech acts, although accepting that its surface features may consistently and efficiently work as if moral discourse were cognitive.
Strawson holds that a similar analysis is applicable to all speech acts, not just illocutionary ones: " To say a statement is true is not to make a statement about a statement, but rather to perform the act of agreeing with, accepting, or endorsing a statement.
** In a response to Georges Bonnet's speech of January 26, German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, referring to Bonnet's alleged statement of December 6, 1938 accepting Eastern Europe as being in Germany's exclusive sphere of influence, protests that all French security commitments in that region are " now off limits ".
Powell's speeches and TV interviews throughout his political life displayed a suspicion towards " the Establishment " in general, and by the 1980s there was a regular expectation that he would make some sort of speech or act in a way designed to upset the government and ensure he would not be offered a life peerage ( and thus be transferred to the House of Lords ), which, some believe, had not any intention of accepting so long as Edward Heath sat in the Commons.
Modern scholars and readers have criticized the book for what are seen as condescending racist descriptions of the book's black characters, especially with regard to the characters ' appearances, speech, and behavior, as well as the passive nature of Uncle Tom in accepting his fate.
However, the Supreme Court overturned the Court of Appeals decision, citing the permanence of monuments as opposed to forms of constitutionally-protected free speech as well as the fact that governments take ownership of monuments on their properties and thus must " take some care in accepting donated monuments.
In 2005 when accepting his Lifetime Achievement Award, former Vice President Al Gore's speech was " Please don't recount this vote.
" McEwan's acceptance speech discussed the complaints against him and provided further insight into his reasons for accepting the award.
Premier Dalton McGuinty instead offered a compromise where the NDP would receive additional funding in return for accepting their status as independents, but NDP leader Howard Hampton refused and disrupted the throne speech in protest.
In accepting the nomination, he began his speech with, " I'm John Kerry and I'm reporting for duty.
* George W. Bush's speech accepting the concept of Western betrayal
The decision left service providers with difficult choices between simply accepting the legal liability for content they didn't themselves create or solicit, restricting the speech of their customers ( such as filtering messages before making them visible to others ), or refraining from moderating even grossly inappropriate content ( which the Stratton court thought constituted editorial control ).
The convention is perhaps best known for Bush's " thousand points of light " speech accepting the nomination.
* Harold J. Kushner's speech when accepting the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award
A speech act can be understood as an offering, the success or failure of which depends upon the hearer's response of either accepting or rejecting the validity claims it raises.
Many of them spoke Indo-Aryan Prakrit vernacular languages, akin to Vedic Sanskrit, still some spoke Dravidian, Desi dialects. Thus the ancient of Konkani Prakrit was born as a confluence of the Indo-Aryan dialects while accepting many words from the Dravidian speech. Some linguists associate Shauraseni to be its progenitor whereas some call it Paisaci. The influence of Paisachi over Konkani can be proved from the findings of Dr. Taraporewala who, in his book Elements of Science of Languages, Calcutta University, he ascertains that Konkani shows many Dardic features which are found in present day Kashmiri language.
In 1998, German novelist Martin Walser cited the Holocaust Memorial in his speech, when accepting the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.
In a speech accepting the award, he said,
Dylan's disenchantment with the protest movement had previously surfaced in a speech he had given in December 1963 when accepting an award from the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee ( ECLC ) in New York.
It means accepting the fact that human beings, naturally diverse in their appearance, situation, speech, behaviour and values, have the right to live in peace and to be as they are.
One of the main points is freedom of political speech, as the current underwriting rules have a chilling effect on KMTP accepting political spots as they could be interpreted as violating the current rules when broadcast in a foreign language.

speech and nomination
After the preliminary business affair was finished Depew arose and delivered the convincing speech that clinched the nomination for Roosevelt.
When the presidential election of 1856 approached, Johnson and supporters harbored a vague hope for the presidency, and he gave a speech to the Tennessee Democratic delegates reiterating his views ; some county conventions designated him a favorite son and the Nashville Union and American proposed his nomination.
* June 16 – Abraham Lincoln accepts the Republican Party ( United States ) nomination for a seat in the US Senate, delivering his " House Divided " speech in Springfield, Illinois.
His speech, delivered at the close of the debate on the party platform, electrified the convention and is generally credited with getting him the nomination for president.
Although Bryan had decided on a strategy to gain the nomination — to give a speech which would make him the logical candidate in the eyes of delegates — he faced obstacles along the way.
As Governor Clinton's nomination acceptance speech approached, Ross Perot dropped out of the race, convinced that staying in the race with a " revitalized Democratic Party " would cause the race to be decided by the United States House of Representatives.
Roosevelt's nomination speech was delivered by former governor Frank S. Black of New York and seconded by Senator Albert J. Beveridge of Indiana.
He accepted the congratulations of Ohio governor Michael DiSalle, Connecticut governor Abraham A. Ribicoff, Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley, and New York mayor Robert F. Wagner, Jr .. Lawrence said that " Johnson has the strength where you need it most "; he then left to begin writing the nomination speech.
She also gave a speech seconding Smith's nomination.
Aware of the Egyptian people's strong political and emotional attachment to Nasser's memory, and the ideals of the Revolution, Sadat declared in his inauguration speech before the National Assembly on 7 October 1970, " I have come to you along the path of Gamal Abdel Nasser and I believe that your nomination of me to assume the responsibility of the Presidency is a nomination for me to continue the path of Nasser ".
His speech was so stirring and witty that it helped stampede his nomination.
Despite his protestations, the delegates drafted him, and he accepted the Democratic nomination with a speech that according to contemporaries, " electrified the nation :"
Echoing Senator Roman Hruska's famous 1970 speech in defense of Harrold Carswell, Coats said to CNN regarding the nomination: " If a great intellectual powerhouse is a qualification to be a member of the court and represent the American people and the wishes of the American people and to interpret the Constitution, then I think we have a court so skewed on the intellectual side that we may not be getting representation of America as a whole.
Dirksen garnered attention at the convention when he gave a speech attacking New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, a liberal Republican and the leading supporter of Taft's opponent for the Republican presidential nomination, General Dwight Eisenhower.
In 2008, former president Bill Clinton gave a speech at the fire station on behalf of his wife Hillary Clinton during her campaign for the Democratic nomination for President.
Garfield had emerged as a candidate after delegates were impressed by his nomination speech of Sherman.
Foraker gained national acclaim with his speech nominating Sherman, and Hanna worked for the senator's nomination, but Blaine won easily.
His speech nominating James G. Blaine for the 1876 presidential election was unsuccessful, as Rutherford B. Hayes received the Republican nomination, but the speech itself, known as the " Plumed Knight " speech, was considered a model of political oratory.
While making the Wellstone nomination speech at the 1996 state DFL convention, Coleman stated: " Paul Wellstone is a Democrat, and I am a Democrat.
He wrote a speech in support of Ulysses S. Grant called " Grant vs. Hancock ", which he revised to " Garfield vs. Hancock " after Garfield won the Republican nomination in the 1880 presidential campaign.
Barry came to national prominence as mayor of the national capital, the first prominent civil-rights activist to become chief executive of a major American city ; he gave the presidential nomination speech for Jesse Jackson at the 1984 Democratic National Convention.

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