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While Bill made business deals with some shady international figures, Hillary made a lot of her fortune by giving speeches to Wall Street firms, the main target of public wrath for causing the Great Recession of 2008.
This provided an ideal target for Sanders, who singled out the fact that Clinton earned $675,000 for three speeches she gave to Goldman Sachs.
The victory of a Hindu chauvinist hardliner – a man who had systematically blocked his predecessor’s peace-making efforts while in opposition and demonized Pakistan in his campaign speeches – was naturally assumed to portend a bilateral chill.
The euro can be saved, but it will take more than fine speeches asserting a commitment to Europe.
Speeches delivered ten years ago at the reburial of former Prime Minister Imre Nagy, executed in 1958 by Communist collaborators of the Soviet occupying army, contributed to that process.
To be sure, here at Davos, CEOs from around the world begin most of their speeches by affirming the importance of values.
But, by the end of their speeches this year, any remaining illusion about the values motivating Davos CEOs was shattered.
So forget the platitudes about values that CEOs recite in the opening paragraphs of their speeches.
He has supplemented his major television and radio speeches with Internet-based video clips on YouTube, and his political style has been marked by reaching out in a bipartisan fashion to broad circles of political leaders.
In speeches and essays, he claims that the faith of these immigrants, while perhaps sincerely held, “does not have God as its source.”
Technology and Economic GrowthROME: The story of Elihu Thompson, the inventor of the electric dynamo, and ultimately a founder of one of America's great companies, General Electric, recurs frequently in the speeches of Alan Greenspan.
The fact that Israel could always count on US backing, especially on such public occasions as congressional speeches by an Israeli leader, only confirmed the assumption of many people around the world that Israel and the US are joined like Siamese twins.
He insisted on writing his own speeches, conceiving many of them as philosophical and literary works, in which he not only criticized the dehumanized technology of modern politics, but also repeatedly appealed to Czechs not to fall prey to consumerism and mindless party politics.
Apart from a few scattered speeches – some by Abbas himself – it never accepted peace and compromise.
Anyone who listened to his speeches or read his campaign material should have noted that he was not proposing that the federal government should carry out the infrastructure investment.
Indeed, his speeches are studded with references to arrogant elites who are out of touch with the feelings of the common man.
There will be pretty pictures and lofty speeches on the future of the transatlantic relationship – in other words, business as usual.
He does not want his legacy to comprise simply powerful speeches; he wants to tackle real issues affecting France, Europe, and the world.
Indeed, his speeches frequently offer lessons in Jewish history, while casting the “Holy Land” as both a Jewish right and an Israeli national symbol.
Generally, Ahmadinejad begins his public speeches with prayers for the Mahdi’s immediate return.
They come to mark the start of the annual session of the United Nations General Assembly, to give speeches that tend to receive more attention at home than they do in the hall, and – in the diplomatic equivalent of speed dating – to pack as many meetings as is humanly possible into their schedules.
In order to restore America’s moral leadership, President Barack Obama must make good on his early rhetoric – exemplified in his speeches in Istanbul and Cairo early in his presidency – which demonstrated genuine regard for the oppressed.
Moreover, football, more than long speeches or international resolutions, can help induce progress towards peaceful solutions for military conflicts.
Buying up whole enterprises triggers angry speeches in the US Congress.
Doing Well by Doing GoodBERKELEY – If you get most of your ideas about government from speeches by America’s Republican presidential candidates, it’s easy to believe that the US federal government is incapable of doing anything right.
Anyone who can stomach revisiting the speeches of leading fascists and Nazis of the 1920s and 1930s will find appeals – Benito Mussolini’s paeans to social security or Joseph Goebbels’ stinging criticism of the financial sector – that seem, at first glance, indistinguishable from progressive goals.
Havel continued writing, changing his genre from plays and essays to speeches, most of which are, in fact, philosophical writings.
While he was seen abroad through the prism of his heroism and his philosophical speeches, at home Havel was often perceived as being deeply engaged in the political scrum.
He had to appoint officials, select prime ministers after parliamentary elections, award state decorations, and make speeches.
And what passed for dialogue was a series of speeches and tightly scripted talking points.
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