| In this century political speechmaking has tended to favor simplicity and conciseness, rendering Ciceronian floweriness less interesting. |
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| After the pressure of speechmaking, Pauline, my partner for the night and I decided to try our hand at the table of the card sharp. |
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| People will excuse all kinds of lousy speechmaking, just chalking it up to inexperience. |
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| The speechmaking prowess that led him into public life three decades ago remains the most daunting weapon in his personal arsenal. |
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| Pericles developed a loyal, if informal, mass constituency of ordinary Athenians through speechmaking in the Assembly. |
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| The glorious dream my father shared with us on August 28, 1963 was not just an exercise in eloquent speechmaking. |
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| Settelen made videotapes of her practicing elocution and formal speechmaking with him, presumably to improve her performance as a public figure. |
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| Any future offers on speechmaking, I am afraid I will have to turn down. |
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| He reckons he spends two-thirds of his time on his work for his various charitable bodies, alongside lucrative consultancy and speechmaking. |
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| Beyond speechmaking and setting out visions, genuine commitment to disarmament entails concrete actions. |
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| One area in which practices have changed dramatically is speechmaking. |
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| It steered his legal career off into an incredibly successful tangent, and he's since been lauded for his speechmaking abilities, both in and out of character. |
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| In recent years the communications revolution has brought about a massive, worldwide proliferation of school systems and of facilities for news gathering, publishing, broadcasting, holding meetings, and speechmaking. |
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| Conciliatory gestures and speechmaking have abounded from both sides in recent weeks. |
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| He delegated speechmaking duties to Magomed Daudov, a former rebel fighter who switched to Moscow's side in 2004 and is still known by his nom de guerre, Lord. |
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| Mr. Gauck used his speech on Friday to plead for more study in the schools of June 17, which for decades was a public holiday in West Germany, but deteriorated, he lamented, into an empty ritual of speechmaking. |
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