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After all, he is reportedly unable to absorb comprehensive, organized policy briefings, and his opinions tend to reflect those of whomever he spoke to last.
I recently spoke to several entrepreneurs who shared anecdotal evidence that organizations in Africa with a Western co-founder raise more than twice the funds of African-run organizations.
When my parents spoke German on a tram, they were told: “We speak English here!”
He spoke French and seemed at ease with Britain’s neighbors across the Channel; more importantly, he seemed to sympathize with European integration.
In the past, when politicians debated the EU’s future, they spoke of a definitive formula for European integration, as defined in a famous lecture in 2000 by German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer.
Recently, Nikita Mikhalkov, director of the Oscar-winning film "Burnt by the Sun," the pianist and president of Russia's Art Academy Nikolai Petrov, the singer and composer Alexander Gradsky and other members of the intelligentsia spoke to the press in Moscow in defense of Putin's strategy in Chechnya.
In effect, most of the senior Republicans who spoke wanted to return to the pre-crisis world – or even to less financial regulation than existed under President George W. Bush.
Trump’s opponent, Hillary Clinton, memorably spoke of “Trumped-up trickle-down economics.”
Indeed, many Muslim women I spoke with did not feel at all subjugated by the chador or the headscarf.
Years later, he spoke of his “own rather cavalier attitude toward the budget deficit and other monetary or fiscal problems.
Emerging economies once again spoke nearly in unison.
She journeyed to Africa and to the Indian subcontinent, and spoke forcefully at the Beijing conference that brought women leaders together from around the world.
When communism collapsed, people spoke of the "End of History."
I recently spoke with Ruzimuradov about his incarceration.
Goethe already spoke of this in his play "Torquato Tasso," when he cried out: "Compare yourself!
In a meeting with Evo Morales, he spoke of a joint agenda to discuss the issue with US officials.
An Italian cardinal, who admittedly spoke intemperately, was accused of using the language of Holocaust denial.
Bush spoke often of regime change and a “freedom agenda,” with supporters citing the role of American military occupation in the democratization of Germany and Japan after World War II.
But several of the MPs had also been taken aback on discovering that when Obama spoke to them, he read from an “invisible” teleprompter.
As Chile’s finance minister in 2006-2010, I spoke to local business audiences dozens of times, and received countless questions (sometimes less than friendly) about tax policy and labor-market regulation.
People to whom I spoke in Jordan’s government and palace say that they were led to believe that the post would go to Mubarak’s last prime minister, Ahmed Shafiq.
Instead, the two foreign ministers met on schedule and agreed to meet again, after issuing an encouragingly meaningful joint statement, which spoke of enhancing trade and implementing more confidence-building measures.
But it spoke volumes about the sexism, whether implied or overt, that still exists at the heart of the media industry.
Modi’s strutting confidence spoke to these desires.
The Chinese I spoke with in early July felt that the gap could be closed much sooner, possibly within two years.
Who spoke to them about losing access to the European market?
In 1996, when she was a Fed governor, she spoke about policy rules in a speech entitled “Monetary Policy: Goals and Strategies.”
While the parties that proved most successful in creating new labor-market institutions, securing high-quality public services, and reaching a broad social consensus, such as the Swedish Workers’ Party or the British Labour Party, had typically repudiated their earlier Marxism, they still spoke the same language as their Marxist cousins.
At the January 2014 annual gathering of the World Economic Forum, Shinzo Abe, Suga’s long-serving predecessor, spoke boldly of making Japan “a place where women shine.”
Recently, Tusk spoke at a University of Warsaw event commemorating Poland’s 1791 constitution, where he made a show of erudition by citing Immanuel Kant, Edmund Burke, George Washington, and Ortega y Gasset.
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