Speakers from across the world included Cindy Sheehan, the American mother whose son died in Iraq ; and Hassan Juma, president of the Iraqi Southern Oil Workers Union.

Wilkins was also named Outstanding Legislator of the Year by a wide range of organizations, and he served as President of the National Speakers ' Association and as chair of the Southern Legislative Conference.

Today, Sweet Lou is an integral part of the Dodgers ’ Community Relations efforts and a member of the Dodgers Speakers ’ Bureau, while remaining active with various charities in Southern California and nationally, as well.

Speakers of Quechua languages or of the Aymara language may prefer the spelling ayawaska.

Speakers of modern Baltic languages are generally concentrated within the borders of Lithuania and Latvia, and in emigrant communities in the United States, Canada, Australia and states of the former Soviet Union.

Speakers of Czech and Slovak usually understand both languages in their written and spoken form, thus constituting a pluricentric language, though some dialects or heavily accented speech in either language might present difficulties to speakers of the other ( in particular, Czech speakers may find Eastern Slovak dialects difficult to comprehend ).

Speakers of other languages can also learn to speak and write Interlingua in a short time, thanks to its simple grammar and regular word formation using a small number of roots and affixes.

Speakers of modern Swedish, Norwegian and Danish can mostly understand each other without studying their neighboring languages, particularly if speaking slowly.

Speakers of modern Māori generally report that they find the languages of the Cook Islands, including Rarotongan, the easiest other Polynesian languages to understand and converse in.

Speakers of Algonquian languages stretch from the east coast of North America all the way to the Rocky Mountains.

Speakers of eastern Algonquian languages included the Mi ' kmaq and Abenaki of the Maritime region of Canada, and likely the extinct Beothuk of Newfoundland.

Speakers of languages other than the local Aranese are typically people born outside the valley, or their children.

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Speakers of such languages may understand the intended effect but perceive the result differently from speakers of languages in which umlauts are rarely used.

Speakers in Mindanao and Luzon refer to the language simply as Binisaya or Bisaya, and such calling is been disagreed by its speakers for limiting the term to Cebuano only and not to the other Visayan languages like Waray-waray and Hiligaynon

Speakers of languages without these sounds may have problems both with hearing and with pronouncing them.

Speakers of languages without grammatical case or adjectival agreement frequently complain about these aspects of Esperanto.

Speakers of Telugu and Kannada, the predominant languages of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka respectively, occupy those states ' portions of the plateau.

Also in South India, Tamil and Malayalam Speakers are often able to understand each other and converse in their native languages to each other while understanding the bulk of the conversation.

Speakers of East Asian languages which lack this sound like Mandarin tend to pronounce as, Japanese as, and Cantonese as, thus failing to distinguish a number of English minimal pairs.

Speakers of languages and dialects without the sound sometimes have difficulty producing or distinguishing it from similar sounds, especially if they have had no chance to acquire it in childhood, and typically replace it with a voiceless alveolar fricative, voiceless dental stop, or a voiceless labiodental fricative ( known respectively as th-alveolarization, th-stopping, and th-fronting.

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Speakers of Philippine languages follow the same system.

Speakers of majority languages can and do learn minority languages, through the large number of courses available.

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 ".

Effective public speaking can be developed by joining a club such as Rostrum, Toastmasters International, Association of Speakers Clubs ( ASC ), Speaking Circles, or POWERtalk International, in which members are assigned exercises to improve their speaking skills.

Any citizen has the legal right to summon a Speaker ( or a priest of any faith, which Speakers are legally considered ) to mark the death of a family member.

Speakers are built into the bottom of the instrument redirecting its own amplified sound back onto the sounding board, strings and magnetic pickups creating an amplitude intensity loop which in turn drives and vibrates suspended kinetic oscillators ( assemblages of vibration sensitive materials ).

Speakers generally consider consonantal gemination and vowel lengthening to be two manifestations of the same effect, which they call simply " doubling " or " stressing ".

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.

Sites of interest in the park include Speakers ' Corner ( located in the northeast corner near Marble Arch ), close to the former site of the Tyburn gallows, and Rotten Row, which is the northern boundary of the site of the Crystal Palace.

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

De Freitas was taken aback by the sudden nomination and urged the House not to support him ( a genuine feeling, unlike the feigned reluctance which all Speakers traditionally show ).

Betty Boothroyd announced her retirement shortly before the summer recess in 2000, which left a long time for would-be Speakers to declare their candidature but little opportunity for Members of Parliament to negotiate and decide on who should be chosen.

Lord Justice Sedley, in his decision regarding Redmond-Bate v Director of Public Prosecutions ( 1999 ), described Speakers ' Corner as demonstrating " the tolerance which is both extended by the law to opinion of every kind and expected by the law in the conduct of those who disagree, even strongly, with what they hear.

Speakers ' corner comprises a dais accessible by steps and a ramp providing a platform from which speakers address the crowd or passers by.

Singapore citizens who wish to hold a speech, exhibition / performance or demonstration at the Speakers ' Corner can register with the National Parks Board, which manages Hong Lim Park.

The Prime Radiant has had offshoot technologies to improve mathematical modelling, including the mini-radiant, which allows Speakers access to the Plan in private, for the purposes of refinement.

Speakers also tend to use longer endings, which are not grammatically correct, to express even stronger form of familiarity or cuteness, for example " miminečíčko " ( very small and cute baby ), instead of correct " miminko " and " miminečko ".

* by attending an English for Speakers of Other Languages ( ESOL ) course which includes citizenship materials, and progressing from one ESOL level to the next.

Speakers of Maghrebi Arabic call their language Derija or Darija, which means " dialect " in Modern Standard Arabic.

By setting loose the Fish Speakers who would one day fuse their talents with those of the Bene Gesserit and the Bene Tleilax to become Honored Matres, Leto created a post-Scattering predator which unified the humans of the Old Empire region under the New Sisterhood, a political union of the surviving Honored Matres and Bene Gesserit.

In fact, from the Act of Union in 1801 until 1992, every Speaker elected came from the benches of whichever party was in government at the time of transition ( see List of Speakers of the British House of Commons )-a convention which had, by coincidence, led to alternation between Labour and Conservative Speakers being elected between 1965 ( Horace King, the first Speaker elected from the Labour Party ) and 1983 ( Bernard Weatherill ).

Speakers of Tai languages in Myanmar and Thailand refer to them as " Gaw " or " Ekaw " ( Ikaw / Ikho ) a term which the Akha view as derogatory.

Speakers both of Kinaray-a and Hiligaynon would however admit to hearing the differences in the ways by which Kinaray-a speakers from different towns speak.