Sentence examples for cited speech from inspiring English sources

IN a widely cited speech in Jackson Hole, Wyo., last week, Alan Greenspan tried to defend his failure to tame the 1990's stock market bubble.

As Tim Geithner, the Treasury secretary, put it in a widely cited speech last summer, banking is anything that involves financing "long-term risky and relatively illiquid assets" with "very short-term liabilities".

Mr Powell affirmed support for the idea of two states, and cited speeches by Mr Bush, recent UN resolutions, and the land-for-peace initiative floated by Saudi Arabia.

The White House responded with a document titled "Five Key Myths in Bob Woodward's Book". It cited speeches over the past year in which Bush acknowledged problems, and it quoted officials including Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Marine Corps Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, defending troop levels.

Mr. Pence, fresh from a visit Friday to the Auschwitz concentration camp, accused Iran of seeking another Holocaust, citing speeches from Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader.

So he cites speeches instead: Nye Bevan on western rearmament in the 50s, warning that it would lead to a witchhunt against socialists; the young Iain Macleod (who died after three weeks as Heath's chancellor in 1970) famously attacking the great Nye in his maiden speech.

It also cites speeches he'd given.

But Mr. Obama, she wrote, "does have the authority to address the issue," and she cited a speech in May in which he appeared to lament force-feedings.

General Sisi later publicly cited the speech as a turning point in his decision to act.

Setting out his reasons, Barney cited the speech Giddings made before the crucial vote.

It cited a speech Mr. Yiannopoulos delivered at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where he belittled a transgender student by name.