For MSF, the most plausible explanation was based on MSF's reputation for speaking out, for "despite the high quality of its medical resources, MSF was barred access to the Sri Lankan battlefield by the government, and relegated to a small ad hoc role treating the wounded civilians who gradually came out from the siege" (Weiss, 2011: 307-8).
Sure, some will say that he is "wrong" about this, but in any case he deserves respect for speaking his mind based on his experience.
Hewitt earned $225,000 in base salary this season, along with $100,000 for speaking appearances and $250,000 for radio and TV shows.
Thank you, producers Eddie and Millie Lewis, for speaking to us about doing a movie based on Hauser's book.
Based on Cohen's conventions (61), the observed effect sizes were large for the tongue, medium for lower lip and jaw, and small for speaking rate.
Using finite element models based on MRI data for spoken and sung vowels /a/, /i/ and / / and comparison of the transfer characteristics by analysis of acoustical data using an inverse filtering method, the global wall impedance showed a frequency-dependent behaviour and depends on the produced vowel and therefore on the individual vocal tract geometry.
In this paper we propose the use of syllables as the acoustic unit for spoken name recognition based on reverse lookup schemes and show how syllables can be used to improve recognition performance and reducing the system perplexity.
The Clintons have parlayed years of political experience at the highest level into fortunes for themselves based on speaking fees, book deals and the like -- and who would deny them that?
But that excitement was also accompanied by a curiosity based (speaking for myself, at least) on ignorance: movies like this don't just happen.
Each agreed to abide by conditions, such as monitoring of their compliance processes, as part of a period of supervised probation.Defenders of the banks claim the size of the fines reflects the fact that they are based abroad, with no domestic political base to speak up for them.
