Two of the principal addresses were delivered by prominent Protestants, and when the speaker was a Catholic, one `` discussant '' on the dais tended to be of another religious persuasion.

The speaker of the poem addresses a woman who has been slow to respond to his sexual advances.

The speaker addresses someone absent or dead, or addresses an inanimate or abstract object as if it were human.

Cooper described himself as " a truly terrible public speaker " and rarely made addresses from the Senate floor.

If so, then Wulf and Eadwacer is not typical, because most Old English loyalty crises occur within the family group … It is … true that romantic or sexual love was not the literary commonplace before the twelfth century it has been since ; other loves took precedence … The situation in Wulf and Eadwacer is far more typically Anglo-Saxon than as usually interpreted, if the speaker is understood to be the mother of the person she addresses as Wulf, as well as of the ‘ whelp ’ of line 16.

Cohen ’ s public appearances include delivering keynote addresses and / or being a featured speaker at a variety of international conferences and workshops and speaking at various universities.

When a speaker addresses somebody using the V form instead of the T form, they index ( via first-order indexicality ) their understanding of the need for deference to the addressee.

* personification: The speaker addresses the waterfowl as if it were a person, saying it has taught a lesson ; he also refers to other waterfowls as fellows ( line 23 ).

* apostrophe: The speaker addresses the waterfowl as if it could respond back

As a Keynote speaker and seminar leader, he addresses more than 250, 000 people each year.

By itself, it can be used to address any number of people, but by adding " koe " ( i. e. " kia ora koe ") one can specify a greeting to a single person ; " kōrua " ( two people ); " koutou " ( three or more people ); and by following with " tātou " one addresses all the people present, including the speaker themself.

The top three students in the class give addresses, and a speaker is also invited to offer words of wisdom to the graduating class.

His maternal grandfather, James Stanihurst, had been speaker of the Irish parliament, and his father Arnold Ussher was a clerk in chancery who married Margaret Stanihurst.

He was also the father of another speaker Thomas Tresham ( died 1471 ).

His father was a leading Whig and Fox rose to prominence in the House of Commons as a forceful and eloquent speaker with a notorious and colourful private life, though his opinions were rather conservative and conventional.

His father, John Ingersoll, was a Congregationalist minister and a man of mark in his time, a deep thinker, a logical and eloquent speaker, broad minded and generously tolerant of the views of others.

Carleton was steeped in folklore from an early age, his father had an extraordinary memory ( he knew the bible by heart ) and as a native Irish speaker, a thorough acquaintance with Irish folklore ; his mother was a noted singer.

Bill Gothard has credited a large influence to his parents and father, William Gothard, Sr. who was a speaker at many seminars during the early years.

Like his father he was a distinguished speaker, impressive, but prolix, and too monotonously solemn.

His father, a fluent speaker of the Irish language, was known as " the Sinn Féin Rabbi " for his support of the First Dáil and the Irish Republican cause, during the Irish War of Independence.

Samuel Allyne Otis ( son of James Otis, Sr., father of Harrison Gray Otis and brother of prominent revolutionary James Otis, Jr. and America's first female playwright Mercy Otis Warren ), a Delegate from Massachusetts ; born in Barnstable, Barnstable County, Mass., November 24, 1740 ; was graduated from Harvard College in 1759 ; engaged in mercantile pursuits in Boston ; member of the state house of representatives in 1776 ; member of the Board of War in 1776 ; collector of clothing for the Continental Army in 1777 ; member of the Massachusetts constitutional convention ; again a member of the state house of representatives 1784-1787 and elected speaker of the house in 1784 ; Member of the Continental Congress in 1787 and 1788 ; elected Secretary of the United States Senate on April 8, 1789, and served until his death in Washington, D. C., April 22, 1814 ; interment in Congressional Cemetery.

Perry has said that his interest in politics probably began in November 1961, when his father took him to the funeral of U. S. Representative Sam Rayburn ( D-TX ), who during his long public career served as speaker of the Texas House for a short time at the age of 29 and then later for 17 years as the Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives.

The speaker tries to convince his father to fight against imminent death.

The poem could be written as well in the hope that the speaker would be able to see his dying father.

His father was a German native speaker, while his mother's mothertongue was Czech.

The speaker may be saying that Wulf has been her lover and her child's father, but has never treated her as or actually been her husband.

His father, Abdul Zahir, was a royal court doctor, minister of health, Prime Minister of Afghanistan between 1971 and 1972, speaker of the parliament and an influential figure in King Zahir Shah's era who helped write the 1964 Constitution of Afghanistan.

* William H. Ludlow ( 1821-1890 ), American politician, speaker of the New York State Assembly, father of William

His father Dr Farquhar Macintosh CBE was a Gaelic speaker from Skye, a leading intellectual in Scottish education and was Rector of the Royal High in Edinburgh and chair of the Scottish Examination Board.

He is the father of four, a columnist with Compliance Week, and a speaker and regular commentator in webcasts and television interviews on financial matters.

Born in Torquay, Devon, Brown was the son of a fisherman and prominent Baptist and it was through following his father that he came to preach, gaining much experience as a public speaker.

For example, when speaking in a formal setting an English speaker may be more likely to adhere more closely to prescribed grammar, pronounce words ending in-ing with a velar nasal instead of an alveolar nasal ( e. g. " walking ", not " walkin '"), choose more formal words ( e. g. father vs. dad, child vs. kid, etc.

His father Eliezer Ben Yehuda raised him to be the first modern native speaker of Hebrew.

His father was appointed to work at the Soviet embassy in Helsinki ; consequently, Rein Lang grew up partly in Finland, becoming a fluent speaker of Finnish.

He is the author of over a dozen books, a father, a grandfather, a teacher, a musician ( drummer ), a semantic rapper, a public speaker, a political activist, a philanthropic organizer, and a self-proclaimed professional hippie.

His father, master builder Heinrich Parler ( the name deriving from " parlerius ", speaker and head of the masons ), had moved to Schwäbisch Gmünd from Cologne, to lead the reconstruction works of the Holy Cross parish church.

There are two types of allophones, based on whether a phoneme must be pronounced using a specific allophone in a specific situation, or whether the speaker has freedom to ( unconsciously ) choose which allophone he or she will use.

When a specific allophone ( from a set of allophones that correspond to a phoneme ) must be selected in a given context ( i. e. using a different allophone for a phoneme will cause confusion or make the speaker sound non-native ), the allophones are said to be complementary ( i. e. the allophones complement each other, and one is not used in a situation where the usage of another is standard ).

This audio tone was then transmitted using an acoustic coupler ( a speaker, in this case ) attached to the microphone of a common telephone handset.

These different sounds are nonetheless considered to belong to the same phoneme, because if a speaker used one instead of the other, the meaning of the word would not change: using the aspirated form in skill might sound odd, but the word would still be recognized.

Some manufacturers produce audio connector cables, speaker wires, and power cables using silver conductors, which have a 6 % higher conductivity than ordinary copper ones of identical dimensions, but cost very much more.

The system was successfully tested in Las Vegas in June 1961, but hardware issues with the speaker wires prevented them from using it beyond their test runs ..

The technology is associated with the electronic transmission of voice, fax, or other information between distant parties using systems historically associated with the telephone, a hand-held device containing both a speaker or transmitter and a receiver.

Loudspeakers were described as " dynamic " to distinguish them from the earlier moving iron speaker, or speakers using piezoelectric or electrostatic systems as opposed to a voice coil that moves through a steady magnetic field.

He became interested in audio equipment design and his last project was a unique, one-way speaker using a single driver.

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.

ESS, a California manufacturer, licensed the design, employed Heil, and produced a range of speaker systems using his tweeters during the 1970s and 1980s.

Lafayette Radio, a large US retail store chain, also sold speaker systems using such tweeters for a time.

In a two-way conversation, any manual alphabet known may be used ; often one speaker will fingerspell using the alphabet of the other party, as it is often easier to spell quickly in an unfamiliar alphabet than to read quickly.

Syntax seeks to delineate exactly all and only those sentences which make up a given language, using native speaker intuition.

Some instruments can only be played with constant, mechanical vibrato ( or none at all ), notably electric organists using a Leslie speaker.

Likewise, if a player selects Peach in Brawl using a Wii Remote or classic controller, Peach's taunt from Melee ( then voiced by Taylor ) will sound over the Wii Remote's speaker if the volume is on.

Wanting to make himself heard by more people at the local venues, he wired a phonograph needle to a radio speaker, using that to amplify his acoustic guitar.

* “ Sound on / off ” switch, or sound volume knob which adjusted the volume level of the internal piezoelectric speaker using a potentiometer.

Again using a Biblical example, the female speaker says to her lover, “ Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth …” ( Song of Solomon 1. 2 ).

It is possible to change the spatial effects of stereo sound on headphones to better approximate the presentation of speaker reproduction by using frequency-dependent cross-feed between the channels, or — better still — a Blumlein shuffler ( a custom EQ employed to augment the low-frequency content of the difference information in a stereo signal ).

Howard was an enthusiastic speaker of Esperanto, often using the language for his speeches.

Others, including William Douglass and Thomas Hutchinson, speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, favoured using the compensation to redeem the paper currency and give Massachusetts a hard currency.

Full-sphere replay requires a minimum of six loudspeakers ( a minimum of four for horizontal ), the signal for each speaker position being derived using appropriate circuitry or software.

The loudspeaker signals are derived by using a linear combination of these four channels, where each signal is dependent on the actual position of the speaker in relation to the center of an imaginary sphere the surface of which passes through all available speakers.

The jazz-blues organ style of these musicians in the 1950s and 1960s, using the trademark blues-organ sound of the Hammond organ ( B3 and C3 models ) and combining it with the Leslie speaker system ( the well-known Hammond-Leslie speaker combination ), were seminal influences.