Sentence examples for a leaving speech from inspiring English sources

Last week I had to give a leaving speech for a member of staff, a good lieutenant who is moving on to another magazine.

Giving a leaving speech to girls at Queen Margaret's school, York, Coleridge had "10 golden rules" to offer them, including "marry someone nice", "quit smoking", and "don't despair if you are an undistinguished pupil, as I was..

Bialaszewski: Early on in my career, I did; I can remember a specific leaving speech that was given by a male colleague of mine that focused on the way I looked rather than some of the great things I had achieved.

Alleging that teachers "censored" her speeches by demanding written drafts before delivery and suggesting edits, Miss Haynes she had submitted a decoy copy of her leaving speech "just so I could say Ravo isn't perfect".

Shane Allen's leaving speech as Channel 4's head of comedy was equally scabrous.

Afterwards the coach Giovanni Trapattoni talked of "delicious" moments from Baggio in this friendly, but such words are to be treated with as much caution as a speech at a leaving do.

She records a white American giving a speech at a leaving dinner in which he wished that "God bless the best yaller woman he ever made" and asked the listeners to join with him in rejoicing that "she's so many shades removed from being entirely black".

Long underestimated, Hollande achieved his victory through consistency and obstinacy, building his personal credibility with a pragmatic approach, leaving fiery speeches and radical proposals to the more flamboyant Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a leftwing dissident of the Socialist party.

The mayor didn't respond to questions about the letters on Thursday morning as he arrived for and left a speech to the Real Estate Board of New York.

Instead, he ends "Beautiful and Pointless" with an account of the final days of his father, who suffered from cancer and had a stroke that left his speech flat and affectless.

(He's only young, but on occasions, his interview in the Daily Mirror reinforced that impression: Batchelor has to leave a speech by Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to go to the toilet and talks of how he "cried like a baby" and "begged" fellow sailor Faye Turney for a hug when they were reunited).