Voice
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The EU needs to speak with a clear
voice
– as other global powers do already.
Rather, its role would be to give the EU a stronger
voice
on issues where member states share a common ambition that is not sufficiently considered at the global and regional levels, such as supporting societal resilience in fragile countries and promoting climate action.
Doing so would help to address the fact that less than 50% of Europeans feel as though their
voice
“counts,” even though most do not actually perceive the EU as undemocratic.
Those leading the uprisings were predominantly educated young people who aspired to better jobs and more of a
voice
in politics and society.
The question now is whether the movement will find a political voice, and, if so, which one.
Along with the Greens, the liberals are almost certain to be the most powerful parliamentary
voice
shaping the leadership and agenda of the new Commission.
Therefore, unable either to believe in the importance of what he was doing or to look upon it with indifference as an empty form, he, while preparing for confession, felt awkward and ashamed at doing something incomprehensible and therefore – as an inner
voice
told him – necessarily false and wrong.
'I have doubted, and still doubt, everything,' replied Levin in a
voice
unpleasant to himself, and stopped.
'What doubt can you have of the Creator when you see His creation?' continued the priest in his rapid, stereotyped
voice.
Happiness consists only in loving and desiring: in wishing her wishes and in thinking her thoughts, which means having no freedom whatever; that is happiness!''But do I know her thoughts, wishes, or feelings?' a
voice
suddenly whispered.
'Blessed be our God, now and hereafter, for ever and ever!' replied the old priest meekly, in a sing-song voice, continuing to turn something over on the lectern.
'Let us pray to the Lord that He may send them perfect love, peace, and help!' the whole church seemed to breathe with the senior deacon's
voice.
'Eternal God who joinest them that are separate,' he read in his mild sing-song voice, 'and hast ordained for them an indissoluble union in love; Thou who didst bless Isaac and Rebecca and hast kept Thy promise to their heirs, bless these Thy servants, Constantine and Catherine, and lead them on the path of righteousness!
With light hearts they heard the Epistle read and the roll of the senior deacon's
voice
in the last verse, for which the outsiders present had been waiting impatiently.
With light hearts they drank the warm wine and water from the shallow cup, and their spirits rose still higher when the priest, throwing back his vestments, took their hands in his and led them round the lectern while a bass
voice
sang, Rejoice O Isaiah!Young Shcherbatsky and Chirikov, who were supporting the crowns and getting entangled in the bride's train, smiled too and were pleased without knowing why, when they chanced to lag behind or jostle the young couple if the priest happened to stop.
If I had any money...''Shut up, for heaven's sake!' cried Mikhaylov with tears in his voice, stopping his ears with his hands as he went into his workroom behind a partition and locked the door behind him.
Vronsky and Anna were talking in the hushed
voice
in which – partly not to offend the artist, and partly not to utter aloud a stupid remark such as is so easily made when speaking about art – people generally talk at picture exhibitions.
'He has passed away,' said the priest and turned to go; but suddenly the clammy moustache of the dying man moved and from the depth of his chest through the stillness came his voice, sharp and distinct:'Not quite!...Soon.'
'My dear friend!' she repeated in a
voice
broken by emotion, 'you must not give way to sorrow.
'One must know all the details,' he said in a high-pitched
voice.
But this is not all...'Karenin was going to mention the bill that had been brought him, but his
voice
shook and he paused.
Analysing that feeling, and comparing it with her previous loves, she saw clearly that she would not have been in love with Komisarov had he not saved the Tsar's life, nor with Ristich-Kudzhitsky but for the Slavonic question; but that she loved Karenin for himself, for his lofty, misunderstood soul, for the high-pitched tone of his
voice
with the long-drawn inflections which she thought charming, for his weary eyes, for his character, and for his soft hands with their swollen veins.
But Serezha, though he heard his tutor's weak voice, paid no heed to it.
She wished to speak, but her
voice
refused to utter a sound; with a look of guilty entreaty at the old man she went with light steps up the stairs.
'Mama, what are you crying about?' he exclaimed in a fretful
voice.
She was listening to the sound of his voice, saw his face and the play of his features, felt his hands, but did not understand what he was saying.
I entreat you!' he said, again speaking French with tender entreaty in his
voice
but with a cold look in his eyes.
Through a door slightly ajar came the sounds of a muffled staccato accompaniment by the orchestra and of a female
voice
rendering a musical phrase with precision.
Your fault!' she exclaimed with tears of despair and spite in her voice, and rose.
'You should not shout so.'Varenka, hearing Kitty's
voice
and her mother reprimanding her, came up with her light step.
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