Spoke
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The Times also
spoke
to anti-racist activists who disavow violence.
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who is now running for a new term, recently called the burkini a “provocation,” while Lionnel Luca, the mayor of Villeneuve-Loubet,
spoke
of “rampant Islamization.”
At the CPC’s 19th National Congress in October 2017, Chinese President Xi Jinping
spoke
of a fundamental “contradiction between unbalanced and inadequate development and the people’s ever-growing needs for a better life.”
In 1992, during the crisis that rocked the European Monetary System, France’s finance minister, Michel Sapin,
spoke
in parliament about how the French Revolution had used the guillotine on speculators.
Even before becoming President, he
spoke
at length about the Marxist-Leninist concept of “Party purity” in an address to the Central Party School in Beijing in March 2012.
On a recent trip to Mexico I
spoke
to many Mexicans about the state of their economy and about their hopes for the future.
Obama was an attractive young candidate who
spoke
well and projected a sense of hope for the future.
While Kennedy
spoke
about civil rights, tax cuts, and reducing poverty, it was his successor, Lyndon Johnson, who used Kennedy’s martyrdom and his own far more impressive political skills to pass historic legislation in these areas.
But skeptics point out that Kennedy always
spoke
publicly about the need to prevail in Vietnam.
Recently, I
spoke
to an Afghan man very close to me.
Some years ago, I
spoke
to a Balkan leader who had just spent the day listening to an American philanthropist lecture him about all of his troubled young country’s democratic shortcomings.
Former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt was right when he
spoke
of the treaty as a set of “footnotes.”
When I returned to Washington, I
spoke
to senior officials in the IMF, World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, and Organization of American States.
Fortunately, when Giscard voiced his dangerous sentiments, many in the European Commission and throughout Europe declared that the former French President
spoke
only for himself.
LONDON – On the morning of September 11, 2001, standing in a conference room in France full of institutional investors from around the world – representing pension, sovereign-wealth, and corporate funds – I
spoke
about the emergence of an important, but not yet fully recognized, new trend: investing with a conscience.
He
spoke
of seas that would stop rising, and of shifting the US away from fossil fuels to new sources of clean energy.
There I met a doctor who, to my surprise,
spoke
fluent Arabic.
Nigerians’ expressions of outrage online soon translated into organized action offline, led by the former government minister Oby Ezekwesili (who also
spoke
at the World Book Day event) and civil-society leaders, including the lawyer Maryam Uwais and Hadiza Bala Usman.
Both he and Gates then
spoke
of “learning” from the incident.
He and his emotional wife
spoke
publicly against bourgeois injustices and luxury, while secretly amassing a private fortune.
The women we
spoke
with shared markedly similar stories.
I
spoke
with one energy expert, who, when I asked him to explain why per-capita energy consumption was so much lower in Europe than in the US, said, “It’s not a secret, and it’s not the result of some miraculous technological breakthrough.
The president even
spoke
of the North’s potential as a venue for real-estate development and tourism.
More than once, he
spoke
of the trust he had for a leader with a record of killing off those (including an uncle and a brother) he deemed his enemies.
For the occasion, Tudor wore a yarmulke and
spoke
about his "philo-Semitism" for more than two hours .
Inflation and unemployment are low, but growth is largely flat, and few experts I
spoke
with in Tokyo recently expect it to accelerate significantly.
For a while, people
spoke
almost approvingly of the flood of liquidity.
Harry Truman
spoke
of defending free people everywhere, and Woodrow Wilson
spoke
of promoting democracy.
The local influentials, Merton discovered,
spoke
affectionately of their town, as if it were a unique and special place, and often said they would never leave.
The cosmopolitans
spoke
as if they might leave any day.
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