Sentence examples for devoting speeches from inspiring English sources

Though the federal government provides just 7percentt of the money spent on public schools, education has been a much-mentioned issue on the campaign trail in recent weeks, with both Bill Bradley, the former Democratic senator from New Jersey, and Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, unveiling proposals and devoting speeches to the topic.

He has turned down invitations to give speeches and devoted more time to entertaining local officials.

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

He dared to be dull, not only boasting about being boring but devoting his speech to a detailed description of his positions on everything from the minimum wage to marketing cigarettes.

Almost every winner devoted their speeches to the victims in Orlando.

His official Web site has pages devoted to "Speeches," "Testimony," and "Professional Reading List," but, three years into his tenure, the page marked "Interviews" remains blank.

Asked about the comments at a news conference in Chicago on Wednesday, Mr. Obama said Mr. Nader had not been paying attention to his campaign, where "I've devoted multiple speeches, town-hall meetings to" the issues Mr. Nader raised.

And today he devoted his speeches and interviews to hammering his rival for the cost of his proposals and for the tens of millions that Mr. Corzine, a Wall Street success story, has spent on the race.

"Over the next two years, we will be building systems that demonstrate the capability to type at 100 words per minute by decoding neural activity devoted to speech," Dugan said.

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.