Speakers at a Tipoff Club dinner dealt lavish praise to a group of St. Louis University players who, in the words of Coach John Benington, `` had more confidence in themselves than I did ''.

Speakers of the Akkadian language seem to have already been present in Mesopotamia at the dawn of the historical period, and soon achieved preeminence with the first Dynasty of Kish and numerous localities to the north of Sumer, where rulers with Akkadian names had already established themselves by the 3rd millennium BC.

In fact, former American Psychological Association presidents Robert Perloff and Nicholas Cummings have both been Keynote Speakers at recent NARTH conferences and have strongly decried the efforts of the major professional associations, in their opinion, to marginalize reparative therapists and allegedly promote gay activism instead of scientific impartiality.

Speakers with very wide, or rapidly increasing directivity at high frequencies, can give the impression that there is too much treble ( if the listener is on axis ) or too little ( if the listener is off axis ).

The three-tailed war flag is also flown at the Royal Palace when the Speaker, or, in his unavoidable absence, one of the Deputy Speakers, serves, at a Government order, as Regent ad interim when no member of the Royal House under the valid order of succession is in a position to serve.

Speakers at the latter service included Hall of Famers Harmon Killebrew, Cal Ripken and Dave Winfield, and many former teammates and coaches.

Speakers at the event included Heinrich Hermann Riemann, a veteran of the Lützow Free Corps, the philosophy student Ludwig Rödiger, and Hans Ferdinand Massmann.

Speakers included Dr. Ian McDonald, Levente Erdeos ( architect, and former curator of San Michele ), the Swedish author Bengt Jangfeldt, Dr. Peter Cottino ( from Capri ), Mårten Lindståhl, Dr. Katriona Munthe-Lindgren, and Professor Alden Smith from the Department of Classics at

Like the others before him, Duncan is appalled at what Atreides rule has become, but Leto appoints him as the head of his otherwise all-female military, the Fish Speakers.

* ACCENT Speakers Bureau, a student-run organization at the University of Florida

From there it grew into this crap that I was standing on an orange crate at Speakers ' Corner saying, ' Gather round, brothers and sisters.

* Profile at Keynote Speakers

A great deal of research at the NRC has gone into the designs of many popular speakers from Canadian speaker manufacturers like PSB Speakers, Energy Loudspeakers and Paradigm Electronics.

Speakers at the event included baseball commissioner Ford Frick, Cardinals broadcaster Harry Caray, and Cardinals owner Gussie Busch, who announced that Musial's uniform number " 6 " would be retired by the team.

Committee Chairpersons, Sergeants at Arms, and Speakers of the House are all elected by the students during Elections Convention.

Speakers at this gathering were H. M. King Carl XVI Gustaf, prime minister Göran Persson, Chris Patten, Margot Wallström, European Commissioners, and the Swedish-speaking George Papandreou, foreign minister of Greece.

On 2 April 2007 Garry Cobain posted a video onto his YouTube account of him arguing with a lady at Speakers Corner in Hyde Park, London about God entitled " the GOD WARS-An Argument I Had At Speaker's Corner ".

There is no convention in Australia that the Speaker should not be opposed in his or her seat, and three Speakers ( Groom in 1929, Nairn in 1943 and Aston in 1972 ) have been defeated at general elections.

There is no convention in Australia that Speakers should resign from Parliament at the end of their term: two Speakers ( Makin and Scholes ) have become Cabinet ministers after having been Speaker.

Most Speakers have been senior backbenchers of the party holding office at the start of a new Parliament, or at the time of the death or resignation of an incumbent Speaker.

Speakers at the opening dedication in 1925 included Professor George Lincoln Burr of Cornell University, who worked to complete the manuscript of Lea's Materials for a Study of Witchcraft ; Professor Dana C. Munro of Princeton University, vice president of the American Historical Association, who had used Lea's collections as a young scholar ; and Hampton L. Carson, Philadelphia historian and former attorney general of Pennsylvania.

Speakers of British English and American English sometimes have this problem, which was alluded to in George Bernard Shaw's statement " England and America are two countries separated by a common language ".

Speakers of a language have in their heads a set of rules for using that language.

Speakers of Quebec French from outside Montreal usually have other names to identify their speech, such as Magoua in Trois-Rivières, and Chaouin south of Trois-Rivières.

Speakers of North-Western Indo-European might have arrived with the Corded Ware culture around 3200 / 3100 BC.

Speakers of Old East Norse would have said dansk tunga (" Danish tongue ") or norrønt mál (" Nordic speech ").

Speakers using such techniques can reproduce sound with a wide directivity pattern ( paradoxically somewhat like a point source ) and have been used in some computer speaker designs and bookshelf loudspeakers.

Previous Speakers have been minority leaders ( when the majority party changes, as they are already the House party leader, and as the minority leader is usually their party's nominee for speaker ), or majority leaders ( upon departure of the current speaker in the majority party ), assuming that the party leadership hierarchy is followed.

Speakers tended to have very short tenures ; for example, from 1839 to 1863 there were eleven Speakers, only one of whom served for more than one term.

Nevertheless, the United States government takes the place of the Speaker in the line of succession seriously enough that, for example, since shortly after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Speakers have used military jets to fly back and forth to their districts and for other travel.

Speakers which use these mechanical crossovers have some advantages in sound quality despite the difficulties of designing and manufacturing them, and despite the inevitable output limitations.

Speakers of Metropolitan French and even of other Canadian dialects sometimes have minor difficulties understanding Acadian French.

Speakers of various dialects normally do not have problems understanding each other.

Speakers have included Stephen Ambrose, Benazir Bhutto, Harry Browne, Russell Kirk, Harvey Mansfield, Charles Murray, Ralph Nader, P. J.

Speakers of Old English ( OE ) considered each noun to have a grammatical gender — masculine, feminine or neuter.

* Speakers tend to have difficulty pronouncing the letter.

* Speakers often have difficulty with the following phonemes, which may depend in some cases upon where in Vietnam they are originally from:

Speakers have included Darl McBride and Rob Enderle.

Speakers have persuasive effect not only by the reasoning of their words, but by their cadence and tone – the musical qualities of their voice serve as " the commentary of the emotions upon the propositions of the intellect ," as Spencer put it.

Speakers of Southern languages and Sinhalese, which do differentiate and, do not have difficulty making this distinction.

Speakers of Proto-Hungarian would have come into contact with Turkic peoples during the 7th or 8th century, in the context of the Turkic expansion, as is also evidenced by numerous Turkic loanwords in Proto-Hungarian.