Sentence examples for act because speaker from inspiring English sources

When it looked last month as if Congress might fail to act because Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator Harry Reid, the majority leader, disagreed over where the loan money should come from, Mr. Obama had Rahm Emanuel, the Illinois congressman who will be his White House chief of staff, call Mr. Reid, Democrats familiar with the incident said.

For speakers of stuttering varieties, introducing oneself to new people is an interactionally problematic act because of the popular belief amongst these speakers that one is prone to stutter on one's own name and thereby potentially positioned as incompetent interactants by supposedly 'fluent' speakers.

"It is a petty and spiteful act because he hates his government being properly scrutinised thanks to this reforming Speaker," she told MPs.

Act because you love to act.

It certainly wouldn't be sufficient merely to claim that marriage is/isn't necessarily heterosexual on the basis of "platitudes," much less on "an act of rational insight [into] the propositional content itself"; or because speakers found the inference from marriage to heterosexuality "primitively compelling" and couldn't imagine gay people getting married!

Illocutionary force concerns the act the speaker intends to do in performing the speech act.

To ensure that significant modulation of resonance is not influenced by variable numbers of speakers between authentic and play-acted stimuli, the contrast of authentic versus play acted included speaker repetition as a random factor (regressor of no interest).

HENDRIK HERTZBERG: Because the Speaker wants to keep his job.

Because The Speaker Won't Be Alive Tomorrow.

Katydids rub their front wings together, and membranes within their wing veins act as speakers.

The rain hits the lids while the upturned pans are wired to act as speakers.