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But they were balanced by those like Nassau Senior, who spoke out against even famine relief: Although a million people would die in the Irish Potato Famine, “that would scarcely be enough.”
But the symbolism of Gandhi’s simple peasant clothing and lifestyle spoke louder than words.
We spoke about European Monetary Union, but we didn’t have it.
While Tony Blair was in power, he spoke eloquently about Britain’s European mission.
But how much power they really wield in the G7 is debatable: America's President, Secretaries of State and Treasury, and the Chairman of the US Federal Reserve almost certainly get their way more easily in a large, unwieldy group than they would in a smaller meeting where Europe spoke with a single voice.
To its credit, the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund recently spoke out in favor of such changes.
Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War (1991) spoke of a distant fight – the nine-year Soviet war in Afghanistan – that eroded Russian culture and humanity, while Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (1997) meditated on the global significance of the nuclear disaster.
He spoke about a new era, “a future of hope.”
Then came the age of the orator, when figures like David Lloyd George and Ramsay MacDonald spoke directly to large crowds.
He spoke against the repression of Serbs and broke with Tudjman over Croatia's aggression in Bosnia.
In frustration, I spoke with a few other schoolgirls.
And yet the friends to whom I spoke encouraged me to get circumcised.
He repeatedly spoke of building a robust civil society, arguing that political parties will degenerate into sects if they are closed to influence from below.
In fact, it seems that some people voted for Brexit specifically because so many experts spoke out against it.
After the economists spoke about carbon prices, internalizing externalities, feed-in tariffs, carbon offsets, and the like, the engineer spoke succinctly and wisely.
At first, the media were rather silent, with the exception of a few opposition pundits who spoke out to hold the PiS responsible.
In the campaign, he spoke eloquently of America's future but confined himself to a few modest and inexpensive proposals, mainly tax concessions and subsidies for children, students, and schools.
Many experts spoke of “peak oil” – the idea that reserves had “topped off” – and anticipated that production would become concentrated in the low-cost but unstable Middle East, where even Saudi Arabia was thought to be fully explored, with no more giant fields likely to be found.
Principles of democratic accountability, about which the IMF spoke forcefully in the developing world, demanded this.
In 1960, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization spoke of wasteful logging practices, such as “head-skidding” (in which a log is rolled downhill, ripping up plants and soil).
I heard the passion and determination of a young man, barely out of his teens, who spoke about his efforts to devise a simple technology that in several decades may rid the oceans of 90% of the plastic waste that now floats in masses half the size of continents.
Before the World Cup began, some representatives of FIFA member associations spoke up in opposition to the status quo.
After the Habsburg Empire was dismantled in 1918, the Sudetenland was incorporated into Czechoslovakia, even though most people there spoke German.
Indeed, in the wake of the Greek crisis, Merkel spoke publicly of the need to be able to exclude eurozone members that do not play by the rules.
Many of the young people with whom we spoke said that their biggest obstacle to a career in farming is learning the digital and technical skills necessary to succeed in today’s agricultural market.
I spoke about the role young people play in Africa’s economy, and the importance of soliciting their views on the future of African agriculture.
Those symbolic gestures spoke to the core of our entire political program.
And he spoke disparagingly of foreign nations, especially Great Britain.
So we voices for human rights in China have reason to express gratitude to Clinton, Ambassador Gary Locke, House Speaker John Boehner, US Representatives Chris Smith, Frank Wolf, Nancy Pelosi, Jim McGovern, and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, and many citizens who spoke out for Chen.
I know because I spoke with him while he was in a hospital, negotiating his release.
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