Spoke
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Those of us who could watch West German TV, though, had a chance to enjoy the Frank Cannon series, if we could live with the fact that he
spoke
German.
The uncanny part is the President and Vice-President
spoke
and even moved like Stan & Ollie.
Increasingly, political leaders like British Prime Minister David Cameron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who
spoke
eloquently for the Round at the World Economic Forum in Davos this year, are emphasizing that the Doha Round’s failure would cost the world significant gains in prosperity, halt progress for the poor in developing countries, and reduce workers’ real incomes in developed countries.
A federally financed research team of physicians and health-care economists examined hospital records and other clinical information and also
spoke
with the enrollees and with those not admitted.
Indeed, Malala Yousafzai, the young Pakistani girl who
spoke
up for children’s right to go to school – even after surviving an assassination attempt by the Taliban – served poignant notice that not educating a child in the developing world is significantly more costly than doing so.
Fréderic Mitterand, the culture minister,
spoke
of “a scary America that has just shown its face.”
Little more than a decade ago, people
spoke
of the end of history, of the final, unchallengeable triumph of free markets and democracy.
Hitler
spoke
of Jews as a toxic “racial germ.”
Frank Gaffney, an influential figure in Trump’s ethnic nationalist circles,
spoke
of Muslims as “termites,” who “hollow out the structure of the civil society and other institutions.”
Nor did he appear on television, although late in life, he
spoke
about effective altruism, and two of those talks can be seen online.
In the British case, Prime Minister David Cameron
spoke
out in June 2010 after a lengthy government report found that in 1972, in an episode known as “Bloody Sunday,” British soldiers had fired without warning into a crowd of protesters in Derry, Northern Ireland, killing 14 people.
Last month, US President Barack Obama, in setting out his broader foreign-policy stance,
spoke
of Syria’s three evils – brutal military tactics, the terrorist threat from the opposition, and the need to support refugees.
They
spoke
with near unanimity when it came to the “dangers of government over-regulation.”
It is true that Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt
spoke
in their wartime "Atlantic Charter" about the right to freedom from want and fear (whatever that may mean), and Thomas Jefferson said that all men have the right pursue their "happiness," but such so-called "rights" can never be made into more than desired goals.
As a result, European diplomats, for example, were mostly aristocrats, who all
spoke
French to one another.
In the 1980’s, analysts
spoke
of Euro-sclerosis and a crippling malaise, but in the ensuing decades Europe showed impressive growth and institutional development.
In a passionate speech, Kavita Krishnan, Secretary of the All India Progressive Women’s Association,
spoke
to the deeper issue behind the protests: the blame-the-victim culture in India around sex crimes.
During the synchronized global upswing last year, many in the economic establishment
spoke
too soon when they began to forecast sunnier times.
People were glued to television, savouring the new politicians who openly
spoke
a language hitherto suppressed.
But Obama – who had displayed a photograph of Mahatma Gandhi in his Senate office, carried a locket of the Hindu god Hanuman, and
spoke
often of his desire to build a “close strategic partnership” with India –struck the right symbolic chords in New Delhi and won over the fractious parliament.
While my words were met with polite nods and plenty of questions, few of the Bosnians to whom I
spoke
seemed to believe that the ICTY would actually amount to anything.
The “experts” of that era
spoke
of the balance of nuclear power.
When politicians debated the EU’s future, they
spoke
of “finality” – the end formula of European integration, as defined in a famous lecture by German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer in 2000.
The French president
spoke
of "infantilism" on the part of the candidate countries and said that they should have consulted first with the EU or else remained silent.
Francis, by contrast, appears to have been referring to factory-farmed animals when he spoke, in The Joy of the Gospel, of “weak and defenseless beings who are frequently at the mercy of economic interests or indiscriminate exploitation.”
When we
spoke
in private, he was brimming with jovial comradeship.
At the outset of his first administration, Obama
spoke
of the need “for a global response to global challenges,” which was followed by a move toward multilateral engagement, most notably in Libya.
As a presidential candidate, Obama
spoke
of the need for “sustained, direct, and aggressive diplomacy” to deal with North Korea.
Others
spoke
out as well, and the futures markets quickly predicted another 25-basis-point rate hike in March.
“Thou’lt torture me,” responds the villainous Iachimo, “to leave unspoken that which, to be spoke, would torture thee.”
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