`` A better position for negotiations is the real point of this speech.

It is said that the eccentric Timothy Dexter, who was one of the first share-holders, stood on the table and made a speech worthy of the occasion.

The poem does not distort the syntax of ordinary speech nor draw on exotic sources of diction, yet it is obviously not ordinary speech -- only Hardy would say `` a grin of bitterness swept thereby ; ;

this is a `` fade '' ending, and what you have here is a downtalking style of speech, expressing something less than conventional respect for mother.

Then she catapults into `` everything and everybody '', putting particular violence on `` everybody '', indicating to the linguist that this is a spot to flag -- that is, it is not congruent to the patient's general style of speech up to this point.

He is, of course, a segregationist, but he says he has never made an `` anti-Negro '' speech.

Despite a too long sustained declamatory flight, this final speech is convincing, and we see why British audiences apparently were impressed by `` Roots ''.

AAC is now used for a wide variety of speech impairments.

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, an Allocution is a solemn form of address or speech from the throne employed by the Pope on certain occasions.

Dysarthria, an impairment with articulation, may also be present and is characterized by " scanning " speech that consists of slower rate, irregular rhythm and variable volume.

Of those, ethanol ( C < sub > 2 </ sub > H < sub > 5 </ sub > OH ) is the type of alcohol found in alcoholic beverages, and in common speech the word alcohol refers specifically to ethanol.

For example, where a person has committed harmful actions of body, speech and mind based on greed, hatred and delusion, rebirth in a lower realm, i. e. an animal, a ghost or a hell realm, is to be expected.

The term " alloy " is sometimes used in everyday speech as a synonym for a particular alloy.

Hearing is one of the most crucial means of survival in the animal world, and speech is one of the most distinctive characteristics of human development and culture.

The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only.

In adjectival use, it is generally understood to mean " of or relating to the United States "; for example, " Elvis Presley was an American singer " or " the American President gave a speech today ".

In personal denotation, " gringo " means estadounidense, in particular, and anglophones in general, and, linguistically, any speech not Spanish, i. e. " She is speaking gringo, not Spanish ".

It is a humorous political critique, aimed squarely at the then ruling party Partido Revolucionario Institucional ( PRI ) and its paramilitary caciques, at a time when freedom of speech in politics was highly restricted.

On the other hand, they may not preside over Adoration or Benediction, give a speech that is a homily, or read the Gospel during a Mass or serve as instituted acolytes, a ministry which is now reserved for those preparing for ordained service ).

The younger men, Vere, and Pembroke, who was also Edward's cousin and whose Lusignan blood gave him the swarthy complexion that caused Edward of Carnarvon's irreverent friend, Piers Gaveston, to nickname him `` Joseph the Jew '', were relatively new to the game of diplomacy, but Pontissara had been on missions to Rome before, and Hotham, a man of great learning, `` jocund in speech, agreeable to meet, of honest religion, and pleasing in the eyes of all '', and an archbishop to boot, was as reliable and experienced as Othon himself.

Tone languages use for linguistic contrasts speech parameters which also function heavily in nonlinguistic use.

Badly placed teeth can also cause such a speech handicap as lisping.

Interestingly, the geographic borderlines between the different accents ( isoglosses ) coincide strongly with the borders of the states and also with the border with Bavaria, with Bavarians having a markedly different rhythm of speech in spite of the similarities in the language.

There may also be slurring of speech, tremor of the voice and ataxic respiration.

" He also worked as a logographer, having written the speech prosecuting Phryne according to Diodorus Periegetes ( quoted by Athenaeus XIII. 591e ).

The Letter of Philip ( speech 12 ) to which speech 11 seems to respond may also be by Anaximenes, or it may be an authentic letter by Philip, perhaps written with the aid of his advisers.

During the 1920s, the ACLU expanded its scope to also include protecting the free speech rights of artists and striking workers, and working with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) to combat racism.

An unofficial standard for spoken American English has also developed, as a result of mass media and geographic and social mobility, and broadly describes the English typically heard from network newscasters, commonly referred to as non-regional diction, although local newscasters tend toward more parochial forms of speech.

With narration of direct speech, both styles retain punctuation inside the quotation marks, with a full stop changing into a comma if followed by explanatory text, also known as a dialogue tag.

* Isolation Aphasia, also known as Mixed Transcortical Aphasia, is a type of disturbance in language skill that causes the inability to comprehend what is being said to you or the difficulty in creating speech with meaning without affecting the ability to recite what has been said and to acquire newly presented words.

He also notes that according to Genesis, the first speech act is due to Eve, addressing the serpent, and not to Adam.

There are also anthroposophical movements to renew speech and drama, the most important of which are based in the work of Marie Steiner-von Sivers ( speech formation, also known as Creative Speech ) and the Chekhov Method originated by Michael Chekhov ( nephew of Anton Chekhov ).

God's speech also emphasizes his sovereignty in creating and maintaining the world.

It may allude to a literal custom of breaking a moneychanger's bench or counter to signify his insolvency, but it may also be only a figure of speech.

Though he received only average grades, he also competed in high school speech tournaments regionally.

One advantage Chaplin found in sound technology was the ability to record a musical score for the film ; he also took the opportunity to mock the talkies, opening City Lights with a squeaky, unintelligible speech that " burlesqued the metallic tones of early talky voices ".

The speech was also seen as a stand against the Soviet Union because it stated the firm intention of the United States to maintain a military presence in Europe indefinitely.

The Lyon Tablet preserves his speech on the admittance of Gallic senators, in which he addresses the Senate with reverence but also with criticism for their disdain of these men.

Cyber Patrol, a product developed by The Anti-Defamation League and Mattel's The Learning Company, has been found to block not only political sites it deems to be engaging in ' hate speech ' but also human rights web sites, such as Amnesty International's web page about Israel and gay-rights web sites, such as glaad. org.

He adopted Ubu's ridiculous and pedantic figures of speech ; for example, he referred to himself using the royal we, and called the wind " that which blows " and the bicycle he rode everywhere " that which rolls ".

In common speech the word artillery is often used to refer to individual devices, together with their accessories and fittings, although these assemblages are more properly referred to as equipments.

Dylan referred to this in his 1998 Grammy acceptance speech for his Time out of Mind being named Album of the Year:

In May 2010, the Washington State Supreme Court provided an opinion after it was asked to certify a question referred by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington: “ Whether a public library, consistent with Article I, § 5 of the Washington Constitution, may filter Internet access for all patrons without disabling Web sites containing constitutionally-protected speech upon the request of an adult library patron .” The Washington State Supreme Court ruled that NCRL ’ s internet filtering policy did not violate Article I, Section 5 of the Washington State Constitution.

On 4 October 1943, during a secret meeting with top SS officials in the city of Poznań ( Posen ), and on 6 October 1943, in a speech to the party elite — the Gau and Reich leaders — Himmler referred explicitly to the " extermination " ( German: Ausrottung ) of the Jewish people.

After the fall of the Northern Song dynasty, and during the reign of the Jin ( Jurchen ) and Yuan ( Mongol ) dynasties in northern China, a common speech developed based on the dialects of the North China Plain around the capital, a language referred to as Old Mandarin.

* The book is referred to in Warren Ellis's Doktor Sleepless, when during a speech about consumerism the Doktor mentions that " Even No Logo had a fucking logo on it ".

Traditional opera, often referred to as " number opera ", consists of two modes of singing: recitative, the plot-driving passages sung in a style designed to imitate and emphasize the inflections of speech, and aria ( an " air " or formal song ) in which the characters express their emotions in a more structured melodic style.

The term phonème ( from the, phōnēma, " a sound uttered ") was reportedly first used by A. Dufriche-Desgenettes in 1873, but it referred only to a speech sound.

Together with Marie Steiner-von Sivers, Rudolf Steiner developed the art of eurythmy, sometimes referred to as " visible speech and visible song ".

The term stuttering is most commonly associated with involuntary sound repetition, but it also encompasses the abnormal hesitation or pausing before speech, referred to by stutterers as blocks, and the prolongation of certain sounds, usually vowels and semivowels.

Since most of these children don't stutter as adults, this normal stage of speech development is usually referred to as pseudostuttering or as a normal dysfluency.

The ton is the heaviest unit of weight referred to in colloquial speech.

As a result, U-M gained the nickname " Harvard of the West ," which became commonly parodied in reverse after John F. Kennedy referred to himself as " a graduate of the Michigan of the East, Harvard University " in his speech proposing the formation of the Peace Corps while on the front steps of the Michigan Union.

The X-Men ’ s purpose is sometimes referred to as achieving " Xavier ’ s dream ," perhaps a reference to King ’ s historic " I Have a Dream " speech.

For many years, the speech was referred to as " the President's Annual Message to Congress ".

After their falling out, Du Bois and his supporters referred to Washington's speech as the " Atlanta Compromise " to express their criticism that Washington was too accommodating to white interests.

He attained most prominence in 1968, when he made a controversial speech against immigration, now widely referred to as the " Rivers of Blood " speech.

Thus, a speech sound having an adductory gesture may be referred to as a " glottal stop " even if the vocal fold vibrations do not entirely stop.

In speech, a Lord Mayor is referred to as " My Lord Mayor ", and a Lady Mayoress as " My Lady Mayoress ".

It is commonly referred to as the construction or operation of telephones or telephonic systems and as a system of telecommunications in which telephonic equipment is employed in the transmission of speech or other sound between points, with or without the use of wires.

Since the time of McCarthy, the word McCarthyism has entered American speech as a general term for a variety of practices: aggressively questioning a person's patriotism, making poorly supported accusations, using accusations of disloyalty to pressure a person to adhere to conformist politics or to discredit an opponent, subverting civil rights in the name of national security, and the use of demagoguery are all often referred to as McCarthyism.

Some sources incorrectly refer to the June 1982 speech before the British House of Commons as the " Evil Empire " speech, but while Reagan referred twice to totalitarianism in his London speech, the exact phrase " evil empire " did not appear in any speech until later in his Presidency.