Sentence examples for broached a topic from inspiring English sources

CINCINNATI — Mitt Romney was barely six minutes into a campaign speech here on Monday afternoon, dwelling on the success story of a local bioscience company, when he broached a topic that is suddenly confounding his Republican presidential aspirations: Rick Santorum.

At a hearing Wednesday on the Police Department's security plans for the new World Trade Center site, the head of the area's community board broached a topic she called "the elephant in the room": the location of a permanent command center for the so-called World Trade Center campus.

His image as a progressive has already encouraged Mr. Tueni to broach a topic rarely discussed in public.

A crueller version of the joke can be imagined: the queen has always known that she's lame (how could she not know?), but good manners have prevented her subjects from broaching a topic that she prefers to avoid.

Cardinal Danneels is not the first Roman Catholic Church official to broach a topic considered taboo at the Vatican, but he is the highest-ranking leader to address the question so openly.

The "Real" hosts also broached a popular topic: Why during a stand-up stop in Australia in April did Cho make comments that outed John Travolata as gay? "Well, 'cause I'm gay," she responded.

One of the film's producers, Daniel Birman Ripstein of Alameda films, who is Arturo Ripstein's nephew, said he knew the movie broached an explosive topic.

In his cyborg sculpture series Boundless Body, mixed media artist Lee Woo broaches a recurring topic in art today the influence of technology on the body and its effects on how we relate to our environment.

Firstly, it not only broaches a significant historical topic (American slavery), but in many ways prescribes solutions to our treatment of slavery's history.

A junior named Julie Le said that when a professor broached the topic of the club in a religion class, students responded in predictable fashion: "They were, like, how do you join a virgin club?

Don't let the Liberals make our democracy the plaything of cashed-up interest groups".. Mr Rudd also broached the topic in a wide-reaching Green Paper released in 2009 asking: "Do you think compulsory voting should continue in Australia?" Who benefits?