Sentence examples for devote my speech from inspiring English sources

At last year's Stonewall Awards, I was forced to devote my speech to criticising Ruth Davidson, the gay Scottish Tory leader who berated the gay rights' organisation for having a "Bigot of the Year" award.

My own interest in this matter goes back many years – including devoting my maiden speech in the House of Commons in 2001 to the case for lowering the voting age to 16 across the board.

Related: Restricted franchise in EU referendum would make a mockery of democracy | Letters My own interest in this matter goes back many years – including devoting my maiden speech in the House of Commons in 2001 to the case for lowering the voting age to 16 across the board.

In April 1987, activists unveiled a poster that said "Silence = Death" – a month before Reagan would finally devote a speech to the years-long epidemic.

But in his five months in office, he has not devoted a speech to the cares of migrant workers at home.

Much of his research was devoted to speech perception, or the way people identify the consonants and vowels that make up words.

Romney, who also conceded the primary to McCain, devoted a speech to supporters in St Petersburg, Florida, to pointing up the differences between him and McCain, mainly over economic experience.

Unlike Gov. George W. Bush of Texas, Mr. Gore's Republican rival for the presidency, Mr. Gore has not devoted a speech to the single topic of the China bill.

The South Korean president, Kim Dae Jung, who devoted his speech accepting the Nobel Peace Prize last week to improved north-south relations, has urged Mr. Clinton to go to North Korea.

The problem with devoting a speech to all this is that it downgrades Gordon Brown's agenda for fairness and social justice.

Former Speaker Newt Gingrich also appeared at the conference, but he neither mentioned his rivals nor devoted his speech to tearing down Mr. Romney as he did a week ago after losing in Nevada.