Sentence examples for defining speech from inspiring English sources

In the 58 days since he won, he still hasn't made that defining speech.

Mr. Obama purposefully chose this hardscrabble town of 4,500 people, about 50 miles south of Kansas City, Kan., where Theodore Roosevelt once laid out the progressive platform he called "the New Nationalism" to put forth his case for a payroll tax cut and his broader arguments against the Republican economic agenda in what his aides hoped would be viewed as a defining speech.

He never led that march, nor delivered a singular defining speech on poverty.

And remember, in 2002, he gave a defining speech that in many ways is responsible for his being president, which was against the war in Iraq, when he said, 'I'm not against all wars, I'm against a dumb war.' Right now, Afghanistan is the gold standard of a dumb war -- immoral and unnecessary".

"It really was to be a defining speech about who was Barack Obama," Ogletree said.

On October 7 , 2002 in Cincinnati, Ohio, George W. Bush delivered the defining speech of his Presidency.

To the Editor: Paul Sherman and Robert McNamara indicate that the recent ruling of the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that defined "speech" as "conduct," and thus subject to legal restrictions, has implications not only for medical providers but also for professors, political consultants and stand-up comedians.

Unlike 2010 evaluation criteria [9], no prior classes were defined (speech, music, speech with noise in background, speech with music in background, other) and a multiple layer labeling approach was proposed instead.

Indeed, historians may look back on it as one of the defining speeches of his Presidency.

While it did not instantly strike him as one of the defining speeches of the century, he said he knew that "something extraordinary had happened".

Indeed, the speech may eventually be seen as one of the defining speeches in the recent history of the European Union.