Westerwelle, the youngest party chairman at the time, emphasized economics and education, and espoused a strategy initiated by his deputy Jürgen Möllemann, who, as chairman of the North Rhine-Westphalia branch of party, had led his party back into the state parliament, gaining 9. 8 % of the vote.

On election night party leader Westerwelle said his party would work to ensure that civil liberties were respected and that Germany got an " equitable tax system and better education opportunities.

Wulff's candidacy for President of Germany in the 2010 presidential election was formally confirmed by Angela Merkel, Guido Westerwelle and Horst Seehofer, the heads of the CDU, FDP and CSU parties, during the evening of 2010.

Early in the campaign, Guido Westerwelle, leader of the Free Democrats, declared himself a " Chancellor Candidate ," usually a title reserved for the main election leaders of the SPD and CDU / CSU.

The biography of Lord Grey is strictly speaking not a biography at all.

However, at eighty-five, he had still been busy writing articles, reviewing and speaking, and I had never before known an Englishman who had visited and lectured in three quarters of the United States.

He looked at her as she spoke, then got up as she was speaking still, and, simply and wordlessly, walked out.

Flatness may now monopolize everything, but it is a flatness become so ambiguous and expanded as to turn into illusion itself -- at least an optical if not, properly speaking, a pictorial illusion.

The population of the Congo is 13.5 million, divided into at least seven major `` culture clusters '' and innumerable tribes speaking 400 separate dialects.

Such statues were found across the Greek speaking world, the preponderance of these were found at the sanctuaries of Apollo with more than one hundred from the sanctuary of Apollo Ptoios, Boeotia alone.

Babies using sign language showed a three-month developmental advancement at 24-months, speaking like 27-month olds.

He describes it in his novel, Les Misérables, as the language of the dark ; at one point, he says, " What is argot ; properly speaking?

* 1919 – Eugene V. Debs is imprisoned at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, for speaking out against the draft during World War I.

Before the Tennessee electorate voted on secession, Johnson, at his peril, toured the state, speaking in opposition to the measure, contending it was unconstitutional.

In his last surviving letter from 14 October 1791, Mozart tells his wife that he collected Salieri and Caterina Cavalieri in his carriage and drove them both to the opera ; about Salieri's attendance at his opera The Magic Flute, speaking enthusiastically: " He heard and saw with all his attention, and from the overture to the last choir there was not a piece that didn't elicit a ' Bravo!

" Noting that " It depends on the data we use, but roughly speaking, per capita income in developing countries grew at 3 % per year between 1960 and 1980, but has grown only at about 1. 5 % between 1980 and 2000.

Paul Yandura, speaking for the White House gay and lesbian liaison office, said that Clinton's signing of DOMA " was a political decision that they made at the time of a re-election.

In 2005, Clinton criticized the Bush administration for its handling of emissions control, while speaking at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Montreal.

The resident population at this time was generally speaking Brythonic — the insular variety of continental Celtic which was influenced by occupation by the Romans.

Additionally, Elihu's first spoken words are a confession of his youthful status, being much younger than the three canonical friends, including a claim to be speaking because he cannot bear to remain silent ; it has been suggested that this interesting statement may have been symbolic of a " younger " ( that is to say, later and interpolating ) writer, who has written Elihu's sermon to respond to what he views as morally and theologically scandalous statements being made within the book of Job, and creating the literary device of Elihu to provide what seemed to be a faith-based response to further refute heresy and provide a counter-argument, a need partially provided by God's ambiguous and unspecific response to Job at the end of the book.

However, the Jews at Jesus ' time were actually speaking Aramaic, in which language there would not have been a double meaning.

For example, the Marx Brothers ' classic film Duck Soup, at the climax of the film, the camera shows a shot of Groucho Marx speaking a line, followed by a shot of something else happening, followed by another shot of Groucho.

A major problem in determining whether the Cimbri were speaking a Celtic or a Germanic language is that at this time the Greeks and Romans tended to refer to all groups to the north of their sphere of influence as Gauls, Celts, or Germani rather indiscriminately.

Mail armour provided an effective defence against slashing blows by an edged weapon and penetration by thrusting and piercing weapons ; in fact a study conducted at the Royal Armouries at Leeds concluded that " it is almost impossible to penetrate using any conventional medieval weapon " Generally speaking, mail's resistance to weapons is determined by four factors: linkage type ( riveted, butted, or welded ), material used ( iron versus bronze or steel ), weave density ( a tighter weave needs a thinner weapon to surpass ), and ring thickness ( generally ranging from 18 to 14 gauge in most examples ).

In addition to cheering at games and competing, professional cheerleaders also, as teams, do a lot of philanthropy and charity work, modeling, motivational speaking, television performances, and advertising.

Polish language productions for Chicago's large Polish speaking population can be seen at the historic Gateway Theatre in Jefferson Park.

To avoid confusion, people could take turns speaking ( time division ), speak at different pitches ( frequency division ), or speak in different languages ( code division ).

Chamberlain's first Parliamentary campaign ( the 1874 general election ) was a fierce one ; opponents accused him of republicanism and atheism, and even threw dead cats at him on the speaking platform.

The Sheriff of Oxford for the civic year 2008 / 2009, Councillor | Cllr John Goddard, speaking shortly after his election as such, with Cllr Susanna Pressel, Lord Mayor of Oxford, next to him.

The Atoka County Times reported her as saying, " If anyone's got five grand, let's go to court: I'm ready ," speaking in reference to the court fee to challenge an official's election.

Unlike the previous election, Layton stated he was in favour of Green Party leader Elizabeth May speaking at the leaders debates, despite the fact that she was once again being discouraged by the Canadian media networks.

With the election of Walther von Supersax of Conches as bishop in 1457, the German speaking part of the valley finally won the supremacy.

Klestil, who during his election campaign had vowed to be an " active " president, repeatedly criticized the Austrian government and, in an interview with a Swiss daily given in 2003, stated that, theoretically speaking, it was in his power to dismiss the government any time he found it necessary to do so.

At the start of the 2011 general election, Kenny said Fine Gael recognised the importance of “ the giving of hope and confidence to people through the taxation system ”, when speaking to reporters outside party election headquarters in Dublin.

Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej speaking at a workers ' rally in Piața Unirii | Nation Square, Bucharest after the Romanian general election, 1946 | 1946 elections.

Carl I. Hagen speaking at a rally in Oslo as the Progress Party " senior general " before the 2009 parliamentary election.

Paddick speaking in City Hall after the results of the London mayoral election had been announced, 3 May 2008

In opposition Boswell was a spokesman on the Treasury in the immediate aftermath of the 1997 election defeat and became a spokesman on Trade and Industry under William Hague, before speaking on Education and Employment in 1999 until after the 2001 General Election.

After the 1987 general election, at which Bruce's majority had increased to 9, 519, he was briefly a spokesman on Education, before speaking on Trade and Industry later in 1987.

However, following his success in the election, in April 1994, Huckabee withdrew from a speaking engagement before the CofCC.

Tom Watson led a number of MPs in speaking out firmly against the Digital Economy Act 2010, as the bill was being passed through Parliament in April 2010 during the ' wash-up ' period before the election.

Steve Galloway, the leader of the City of York Council at the time, said his aspiration was for a 10, 000 – seater stadium to be built, which would be home to both York City and York City Knights, although, speaking at the launch of his party's election manifesto on 3 April 2007, he said it may be smaller initially, at 6, 000 or 7, 000 seats.

Generally speaking, the Prime Minister under such systems does not have the legal power to call an election, but rather must request the election be called by the head of state.

Soon after his election, he made a personal plea to François Mitterrand, the President of France, resulting in France speaking strongly for sanctions against South Africa.

Though not a candidate, he was a prominent campaigner supporting the government of Sir Wilfrid Laurier during the 1911 federal election speaking across Ontario to promote both Laurier's plan for a Canadian navy and the trade reciprocity agreement negotiated between the federal government and the United States, against the opposition of prominent Liberal business leaders who feared free trade would be extended to manufacturing.

Later that month she apparently let slip the date of a general election while speaking about the budget when Brian Cowen was in New York.

In October 1985, however, he had hit out at Thatcher's reluctance to inject money into the economy in order to ease mass unemployment, speaking of his fears that she could lose the next general election if unemployment did not fall.

In 2010, he declared his support for the Conservative Party at that year's general election, speaking of his concern about the Labour government's increase in the top rate of income tax to 50 per cent.

Campaigning had focused on Oaten's speaking record in the House of Commons after the general election, while the nature of the controversial 1 May election result was also an issue for some Liberal Democrat voters.