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Indeed, in the preface to a recent collection of his speeches, Vajpayee wondered whether democracy had truly taken root in India.
Change for the better could emerge only from practical initiatives, not from Sunday speeches.
The CSRC was pursuing an excessively narrow objective, focusing only on getting the bull market going by delivering policies and speeches aimed at boosting investor confidence and spurring participation.
Over the years, it has gained a somewhat deserved reputation for gathering a bunch of global elites in a posh Swiss resort for a week’s worth of self-congratulatory speeches – a sort of affirmation that the elite’s values and successes epitomize the triumph of democracy and capitalism.
As is usual on such occasions, there will be a lot of lofty speeches about Europe.
Despite populist speeches about the threat posed by “Polish plumbers,” net migration flows between regions are generally insensitive to differences in unemployment rates among regions.
In part, this series of speeches was tactical.
When a country’s president delivers crazy speeches, denies the Holocaust, and does not hide his ambition to control the Middle East, who can guarantee that the threat is not serious?
They were long on posturing and endless speeches, but short on substantive agreements about anything.
He was given to bombastic speeches, once warning newly sworn-in recruits that, if he so ordered, they would have to shoot their parents.
In recent speeches, Kim has emphasized the need for economic reform and opening up to develop agriculture and labor-intensive manufacturing industries.
Thus, despite official speeches intended to support state intervention, Morales’s government benefits mainly from the workings of the market.
Read their speeches – those put out not for Western ears, but for their own.
Since the UK’s general election last year, and following a series of political speeches by May, the EU has finally begun to understand what the current British government envisions for Brexit and the future EU-UK relationship.
In speeches and tweets, Trump has aggressively lashed out against globalization.
They evicted the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) directors, who organized last year’s presidential vote; strengthened the ban on independent candidates; made it practically impossible to create new parties; and established a series of arbitrary, quasi-Stalinist restrictions on the content of campaign advertising, speeches, and exchanges among candidates.
He did not mean special advisers, or producers of programmes for immediate use and writers of speeches for presidents and prime ministers.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel doesn’t make speeches attacking the strong euro and the European Central Bank’s price stability mandate.
Since then, European leaders have gathered time and again by Charlemagne’s ancient throne in Aachen, in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, to deliver visionary speeches announcing that the time has finally come to build a truly integrated Europe.
This means no honorific titles (fellow, senior fellow), no named lectures, no keynote speeches headlining conferences or events.
According to a CNN political analyst, it was “the most important political speech of 2017 – and one of the most powerful political speeches in the modern era of the Senate.”
The Democratic Party insurgency, led by Senator Bernie Sanders, opposed Hillary Clinton for much the same reason their right-wing counterparts did: with her well-paid speeches at Goldman Sachs, she was viewed as a representative of the Wall Street-linked globalized elite.
Larger and more powerful nations were envious of so a powerful spokesman, and his speeches became textbook models for statesmen and diplomats in distant lands.
Hitler’s plans were outlined in Mein Kampf for all to read – and he did not disguise them in his speeches.
In her speeches, Cristina modulates her voice as Evita did.
Unlike Cristina Kirchner, who gave long-winded speeches but held no press conferences and took no questions from journalists, Macri answered queries until reporters had none left.
Kaufman’s approach – with speeches on the Senate floor as a central feature – seemed irrelevant or even quaint to critics even a few weeks ago.
For, instead of infrastructure plans, commercial or environmental treaties, or even multilateral action against such common problems as violence and poverty, the issue that dominated both press accounts and the speeches at the gathering was the new US-Colombian military agreement, announced less than a month before the summit.
In a series of speeches over recent years, Cameron has spoken about a European reform agenda centered on increasing the EU’s competitiveness and improving its institutions’ transparency.
Hardly a week passes without the Chinese ambassador giving eloquent speeches for different audiences.
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