It was an entirely appropriate remark.
He might as well have opened the book at any page and asked his client to select the appropriate remark left by a predecessor five or ten years before.
Before making the routine but at least morally appropriate remark "this is a crime that has to be investigated, and the culprits punished," Putin said, "I never spoiled relations with him, but he chose this path of political fighting personal attacks and the like.
Before making the routine but at least morally appropriate remark "this is a crime that has to be investigated, and the culprits punished," Putin said, "I never spoiled relations with him, but he chose this path of political fighting — personal attacks and the like.
The cemetery was dedicated on Nov. 19, 1863, and following a Massachusetts politician's two-hour oration, President Lincoln took two minutes to deliver "a few appropriate remarks" — the Gettysburg Address.
David Wills, the lawyer who invited Lincoln to make "a few appropriate remarks" at the dedication, offered his and his wife's own bedroom in their home on the town square.
With a "few appropriate remarks", he was able to summarize his view of the war in just ten sentences.
The committee for the November 19 Consecration of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg invited President Lincoln: "It is the desire that, after the Oration, you, as Chief Executive of the nation, formally set apart these grounds to their sacred use by a few appropriate remarks".
The award is often given at the school's graduating exercises, with appropriate remarks by a local alumnus/a.
"He'd be proud as a peacock that people remembered his stories, but he probably wouldn't want to make any more than 'a few appropriate remarks,' as Lincoln would put it," Mr. Hubbard said.
"Abraham Lincoln was invited. . . to make 'a few appropriate remarks.' " Everett spoke for about two hours, and Lincoln about two minutes.
