Speaking to Soviet officials in the aftermath of the crisis, Khrushchev asserted, " I know for certain that Kennedy doesn ’ t have a strong background, nor, generally speaking, does he have the courage to stand up to a serious challenge.

Speaking in April 2009 to noted UK soul / R & B writer Pete Lewis of the award-winning Blues & Soul, Hendryx discussed the background to Labelle reuniting for Back To Now: " Well, there were lots of ongoing times when we'd discussed doing it.

Speaking of his scientific background, Saunders said "... any claim I might make to originality in my fiction is really just the result of this odd background: basically, just me working inefficiently, with flawed tools, in a mode I don't have sufficient background to really understand.

Speaking of noise temperature therefore offers a fair comparison between components having different impedances rather than specifying the noise voltage and qualifying that number by mentioning the component's resistance.

Speaking to Mann later that day, he told him that such a drama could work better with a man as the central character rather than a woman.

Speaking about his gay marriage in Norway as part of the 2010 Liberal Democrat debate about equal marriage for gay people, Paddick said: " The real impact of marriage rather than a civil partnership, the symbolism of it, the importance of it, didn't really strike me until we stood in front of the judge in the courthouse in Oslo, and she said ... we're here today to witness the marriage of Brian and Petter.

Speaking against what he terms " quasi mystical association ," historian Nicolas Kinloch writes that " with the publication of Raul Hilberg ’ s monumental book ," the subject had risen to be considered " an event requiring more, rather than less, stringent historical analysis.

Speaking of the storyline Thomas said: " Jason was thinking about getting married in four years rather than four months.

Speaking of the present status of civil defense in the city, Mr. Hawksley said he would be willing to bet that not more than one person in a hundred would know what to do or where to go in the event of an enemy attack.

More than 40 have subsequently been produced in the West End, at the Royal National Theatre or by the Royal Shakespeare Company since his first hit Relatively Speaking opened at the Duke of York's Theatre in 1967.

Speaking in Berlin three days later, Brandt criticized Kennedy, asserting " Berlin expects more than words.

Speaking at a seminar on 9 September 2004, Ian Sloan of the Northern Ireland Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure ( DCAL ) accepted that the 1999 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey " did not significantly indicate that unionists or nationalists were relatively any more or less likely to speak Ulster Scots, although in absolute terms there were more unionists who spoke Ulster Scots than nationalists ".

The most common reasons for abandoning children in literature are oracles that the child will cause harm ; the mother's desire to conceal her illegitimate child, often after rape by a god ; or spite on the part of people other than the parents, such as sisters and mothers-in-law in such fairy tales as The Dancing Water, the Singing Apple, and the Speaking Bird.

Speaking in Seanad Éireann Costello told senators that as a matter of law, the King was indeed " King of Ireland " and Irish head of state and the President of Ireland was in effect no more than first citizen and a local notable, until the new law came into force.

Speaking of the large Jewish population in Egypt, Philo says that Alexandria " had two classes of inhabitants, our own nation and the people of the country, and that the whole of Egypt was inhabited in the same manner, and that Jews who inhabited Alexandria and the rest of the country from the Catabathmos on the side of Libya to the boundaries of Ethiopia were not less than a million of men.

Speaking of obbligato recitative for Ricimero, Charles de Brosses says that Jommelli's use of obbligato recitative was better than anything he had heard in France.

Speaking about McVeigh's trial, University of Michigan law professor Robert Precht said, " Circumstantial evidence can be, and often is much more powerful than direct evidence ".

With fellow Conservative John Bercow-later elected Speaker of the House of Commons-he ran an Advanced Speaking and Campaigning course for more than ten years, which trained over 600 Conservatives ( including several current MPs ) in campaigning and communication techniques.

* Speaking / Acting Events: Speaking or acting events such as: Original Oratory, Foreign Extemporaneous Speaking, Domestic Extemporaneous Speaking, Humorous Interpretation, Dramatic Interpretation, and Duo Interpretation require no more than 4 competitors or teams from each participating district school.

Speaking to mtv. com, Coyne has explained, " We want to show the movie with a mega-sound system and snow machines and just make it like a bigger event than what has become the typical movie-going experience.

In her biographical novel, Laurie Halse Anderson: Speaking in Tongues, Wendy J. Glenn claims that Speak " has generated more academic response than any other novel Anderson has written.

Speaking to peers is different than speaking to adults, but children may still correct their peers.

Speaking on 24 June 1933, at Gresham's School, he said " There probably never was a time of more uncertainty in the world than today.

Speaking of the political importance of the Historikerstreit, Wehler described the debate as " The Historikerstreit is, in sum, more than a strictly scholarly controversy within scholarly limits ".

The Nova High School debate team also has more invitees to the prestigious Montgomery Bell Academy Extemporaneous Speaking Round Robin than any other school ( although it shares this distinction with Milton Academy and Newton South, both in Massachusetts ).

Speaking about Woods ' character, Witherspoon said " When I read Legally Blonde, I was like, ' She's from Beverly Hills, she's rich, she's in a sorority.

Speaking on this in 2001 he stated: " If you pass something every day and it has a little character, it begins to intrigue you.

" Speaking of the challenges involved with performing Hoggle, Brian Henson said that " five performers trying to get one character out of one puppet was a very tough thing.

The Carnegie Foundation, the National Research Council, the English Speaking Union, the Hall of Fame, the Scouts, the International Institute of the University of Heidelberg, and a dozen or so literary, sociological, and scientific societies soon made inroads on his time, recognizing him for a man of creditable character and intelligence ; hearing of him from his many friends as one in whom force combined with charm, integrity with flexibility of manner.

* The character Ford Prefect in Douglas Adams ' So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish played an elaborate prank by using a ship's advanced telecommunications system to place a collect call to the London Speaking Clock, keeping the call indefinitely connected in an attempt to run up the ship's phone bill.

Speaking about character development in Meet the Parents, director Jay Roach stated that he wanted an opportunity to " do character-driven comedy " and " to create realistic characters, but heighten the comedic situations and predicaments.

The first two films featured the character Rocky, a Swedish Speaking Finn as member of the gang.

Speaking of playing Richard, Brian Capron said: " He ’ s a wonderful character to play and I ’ m enjoying every minute of it.

Speaking on how Rose's character had changed between her appearances, Davies described the fourth series Rose as " tougher, more independent, and might, at times, seem a little harder ".

Sheridan's character Doug in the movie Ghost World appears in the Red Hot Chili Peppers videos " By the Way " and " Universally Speaking ".

* A Red Hot Chili Peppers fan, Sheridan also had a small time character / mascot role in their music videos ; " By the Way " and " Universally Speaking "

Speaking of Bond's origins, Fleming said that " he was a compound of all the secret agents and commando types I met during the war ", although Fleming himself gave many of his own traits to the character.

Speaking of her departure Lindsay said " I think that Shelley has been through so much as a character during my time here, and I am really looking forward to working on different projects.

Speaking about Nick's re-introduction, Danson said it's interesting when an old character is re-introduced because even though it's a different actor, the previous baggage remains.

Gladstone During the Midlothian Campaign 1879 Speaking directly to the people for the first time, Gladstone's Midlothian campaign symbolises a major change in the role of the Prime Minister.

" Speaking about the best and worst part about playing a Star Trek captain, she said: " The best thing was simply the privilege and the challenge of being able to take a shot at the first female captain, transcending stereotypes that I was very familiar with.

Speaking Dutch as a first language was common in the area among second and third generation even as late as World War II.

Speaking about this first meeting, Stevens remarked that the group " felt comfortable with each other from the beginning ".

Speaking of her artistic contributions to the magazine in 2011, Harvey said: " the first opportunity I ever had to show any work was in this magazine.

Speaking to the public for the first time since the fire, Biechele appeared remorseful during his sentencing.

Speaking at Maryborough, now Port Laoise, on the 16 August 1914, he addressed a 2, 000 strong assembly of Irish Volunteers, some armed, and according to the report in the Irish Times stated, " recently, I took the liberty of saying in the English Parliament that, for the first time in the history of the connection between England and Ireland, it was safe to-day for England to withdraw her armed troops from our country and that the sons of Ireland themselves, North and South, Catholic and Protestant, and whatever the origin of their race might have been – Williamite, Cromwellian, or old Celtic – standing shoulder to shoulder, would defend the good order and peace of Ireland, and defend her shores against any foreign foe.

For example, in The Theory of Political Economy, Chapter II, the subsection on " Theory of Dimensions of Economic Quantities ", Jevons makes the statement that " In the first place, pleasure and pain must be regarded as measured upon the same scale, and as having, therefore, the same dimensions, being quantities of the same kind, which can be added and subtraced ...." Speaking of measurement, addition, and subtraction requires cardinality, as does Jevons ' heavy use of integral calculus.

English sound designer, writer and musician Heather Emmett published Sounds to Die For: Speaking the Language of Horror Film Sound, which includes the first in-depth study of the use of sound in Argento's films.

1 the first single off the album was " Speaking Tongues " which peaked at number 82 on the U. S. R & B charts.

" Speaking on a visit to Malaysia on the first day of the tests, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dismissed the possibility of an attack by the US or Israel as a " joke.

Speaking of Carl Barât and Pete Doherty, Roger Sargent ( a close friend and photographer of the band ) described their relationship as like " first love, and all the jealousy and obsessiveness that comes with that "-adding " I think there's, y ' know, obsession and jealousy on both of their sides.

Speaking for vice: homosexuality in the art of Charles Demuth, Marsden Hartley, and the first American avante-garde.

The first one, Speaking of Now, won a Grammy Award in 2003 in the " Best Contemporary Jazz Album " category.

Speaking from the blockhouse at the launch of Friendship 7, Carpenter, John Glenn's backup pilot, said " Godspeed, John Glenn ," as Glenn rose off the launch pad to begin his first U. S. orbital mission on February 20, 1962.

Speaking in tongues is only the first sign of Spirit baptism.

Speaking at the first session of the Dáil that followed, Taoiseach Jack Lynch offered a sincere and moving tribute to the late Deputy.

; Francophone: Speaking French as a first language.

; Anglophone: Speaking English as a first language.

Speaking following the publication of the report the Liberal Democrats deputy first minister Jim Wallace said " we welcome the fact that Cubie recommends the abolition of tuition fees.

" Speaking about the re-introduction of maintenance grants, the Conservatives education spokesperson Jonathon Morgan said that Labour had performed a U-turn and said that the party should apologise for introducing tuition fees in the first place.

Speaking to Shacknews in 2007, Propaganda Games's Josh Holmes said that while GoldenEye 007 is commonly considered the standard-setting console shooter, Turok pioneered the console shooter first by offering open environments and deviating from the " corridor crawler Doom " that were the standard until then.

963, Britain's first radio station for women, with Franks herself hosting a twice-weekly interview show entitled ' Frankly Speaking '.