| Our discussions with councillors and from open meetings have prompted talking points. |
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| Yet Edwards didn't lose his cool, kept to his talking points, and was occasionally downright charming. |
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| But let me just hit at least once on two of the silliest talking points of those pushing this argument. |
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| Is it hard when interviewing candidates in that kind of pressure cooker situation to get them off the official talking points? |
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| When he was on O'Dea's morning radio show, he was espousing all the Proggie talking points as fast as his lips could move. |
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| But my countryside sweep of the area around the school drew a blank on what has become one of the biggest talking points of the village. |
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| I don't have to become verbose in using the party talking points as you do when I write this information to you. |
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| In fact this, and the perilous state of farming, were the main talking points all day no matter whom I spoke to. |
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| At 8pm it's your chance to debate the weekend's major football talking points. |
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| How's about you take a shot at proving just one of your proggie talking points? |
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| More than a history, it is a checklist of arch-conservative talking points. |
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| Issues relating to support services, such as childcare and business training, and transport systems are also likely to be talking points. |
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| Why not just hand out talking points to these guys instead of cash on the barrel? |
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| The range of musical styles, from Edith Piaf, Norah Jones to Fats Waller, was one of the talking points of the concert. |
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| Indeed, one of the major talking points among spectators concerned the witless manner in which so many wickets were thrown away. |
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| Instead, we have the mind-numbing spectacle of one member after another reading slightly different wordings of identical talking points. |
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| What transpired instead was an hour-long fizzer: half puff-piece interview, half talking points regurgitation. |
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| The NAACP also developed research studies and prepared talking points focused on needs in Liberia. |
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| Truths are there, but they tend to lurk implacably behind formulations and talking points. |
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| Mr. Speaker, I was hoping for some real concrete action but what I got was a regurgitation of talking points. |
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| Indeed, it wasn't as much a judicial opinion as it was Republican talking points. |
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| The cookie-cutter predictability of hyper-partisan talk radio talking points is provoking a backlash. |
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| The table below presents the thematic clusters, talking points and the countries assigned to present their perspectives on these issues. |
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| Schottenheimer said he sometimes bolts from bed in the middle of the night to scribble down formations or talking points. |
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| Instead, she launched into the now-very familiar GOP talking points about ballooning food stamps rolls and weak jobs reports. |
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| They all pretty much regurgitate the same warmed-over talking points. |
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| Indeed, Romney has cordoned off major sections of his life, leaving him little to share beyond policy talking points. |
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| Mr. Speaker, the minister may be bamboozled by the talking points of the Prime Minister's Office, but I can say this. |
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| I must admit, however, that they are well practised in the art of parroting the finance minister's talking points. |
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| At moments, the vice-president said too much too fast, burying his arguments beneath a gabble of talking points. |
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| Let us cut to the chafe, put down the talking points and talk about this one on one. |
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| The Conservatives are tight-lipped about the information, never saying anything but the Prime Minister's talking points. |
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| It is a shame that he goes to his notes and pulls out war room talking points. |
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| Today, talk radio hosts and online echo-chamber pundits send talking points to politicians. |
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| Watchers of climate science denialist blogs will recognise these well worn talking points. |
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| The senior Senator was, as usual, highly disciplined, avoiding the substance of some questions with one-liner talking points. |
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| I probably got carried away in my description of those talking points earlier. |
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| Property remains one of the key talking points around the town. |
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| Open fires, stained-glass and prints of old Paisley are nice talking points, but perhaps the most idiosyncratic features are the three snugs at the pub's rear. |
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| I suggest that we have a fulsome debate about it, because we tend to get whittled down to only talking points and wedge issues. |
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| I would just like to put that on the record because we certainly have a different set of talking points suddenly coming from the opposition. |
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| I dare every member of the House to insult the House and get up and spout the lame talking points that I hear so often here. |
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| Such data make good talking points for the G. O. P. candidates, but they also raise an awkward problem for the Party and its 2016 nominee-to-be. |
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| They need not be big things, but merely simple things which make talking points. |
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| Software and computer-implemented inventions were the talking points a few months ago. |
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| Draft and participate in the drafting of Cabinet documents such as Memoranda to Cabinet, Aides-Memoire, talking points and decks. |
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| All members of the Private Sector delegation sign a COI declaration and all talking points are brought to the meeting with consensus. |
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| I agree that we should hope these talking points really gain currency. |
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| Most of the rest of the interview is the same old canards, misleading talking points, ad hominems, undefined terms, self-contradictions, and so forth. |
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| As new data become available, family planning champions should update their briefs, presentations, talking points, and other advocacy materials to inform the next round of decisionmaking. |
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| I suspect that he has a verbiage of talking points that has been supplied to him by the Liberal government, but I would like him to drop that and listen to what I am about to say. |
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| At a minimum, the person must be comfortable speaking publicly and capable of fielding questions, while maintaining an even keel and driving home your key talking points. |
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| One would have expected that Messrs Bush and Rubio's talking points on the Iraq war would have been scientifically triangulated, rehearsed to death and polished to a high sheen. |
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| They may need a full briefing on your issue, training to speak confidently with the media or talking points to make sure the message is relevant, clear and powerful. |
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| The participants typically reveal the summit's main talking points to reporters throughout the various meetings which start this Wednesday in L'Aquila, Italy, and the impacts vary depending on the statements. |
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| But they want to go back over and over the talking points again. |
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| Instead of fixing the problem, the government was more concerned about talking points, spinning and trying to get the public onside rather than to fix the problem. |
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| Internal communication was indeed one of the major talking points in the Senior Management Seminar I organized recently for the purpose of consolidating the team spirit among my new senior colleagues. |
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| Which, of course, sums up his year: the explosive interviews, unpredictable behaviour and rampant egomania may have provided regular talking points, but Kanye almost never allowed these things to break his creative stride. |
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| This is the turgid, enumerative, cheerleading voice of political talking points and White House press aides. |
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| Thematically, this film is underscored by decades of entrenched sexism and anti-socialism, though the talking points are the same as the 2008 original. |
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| One of Naber's talking points when he visits dairies is forage quality. |
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| But in the same book chapter, Abbott promoted climate denialist talking points and referenced a mining entrepreneur who says climate change is all natural. |
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| Even the Canada Day event here on Parliament Hill, the stage was changed to blue, and it eradicated websites of any information that did not fit the talking points. |
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| A few decades ago, politicians sent talking points to talk radio hosts. |
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| Instead of truthfulness and honesty, we are given broken promises defended through clumsy talking points that are so embarrassing the speakers must quietly shudder to themselves every time they have to repeat them. |
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| This talking points, in the form of questions and answers, presents the main issues linked to the growing presence of private healthcare employment agencies and it proposes a counterargument on the subject. |
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| The blogosphere was also afire with Palinmania, from Andrew Sullivan to Talking Points Memo to this very site. |
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| The pictures as a catalogued by Talking Points Memo are grotesque. |
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| The two sparred over music, too, Curtis told Talking Points Memo. |
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