Sentence examples for dismal speech from inspiring English sources

Yet the Republican field for 2012 looks particularly thin.Two younger hopefuls, Bobby Jindal (governor of Louisiana) and Mark Sanford (governor of South Carolina) have self-destructed, one with a dismal speech, the other with a sexual scandal.

His dismal speech at the party's autumn conference, combined with a collapsing poll lead over the Conservatives, triggered Labour's latest bout of soul-searching.It would be unfair to hold Mr Miliband exclusively responsible for his party's problems.

The stock market would touch bottom within days of my dismal speech and would rise so fast that the dividend yield on common stocks would fall below the yield on long-term Treasury bonds.

Like Reagan, Obama has the capacity to make this sort of language sound like something more than a soundbite, and, although he hadn't yet mentioned Trump's name, it was immediately clear where, on this occasion, he was heading with it: to Cleveland, and Trump's dismal, dystopian speech accepting the Republican Presidential nomination.

Hong Kong's chief executive, Tung Chee-hwa, tried to prepare the public for the dismal results in a speech on Tuesday.

Mr. Clinton's telephone conversations to outside political advisers to discuss the dismal reaction to his speech about his relationship with Ms. Lewinsky were interspersed with calls to his security aides about the mission.

But Iran's record on human rights and free speech remains dismal, and its hoped-for cooperation on ending the Syrian war has yet to materialise in concrete form.

The Sun itself, in dismissing McDonnell's speech as "dismal", was not prepared to accept the concerns of its associate editor or those of the Mail about continuing and growing inequalities.

The court, he wrote, has a "dismal record of protecting free speech in cases involving challenges to the institutional authority of the government when it is regulating the speech of its employees, its students and its prisoners, and when it is claiming national security justifications".

Ukip will address its dismal parliamentary showing on Saturday with a session on voting reform that will include speeches from Katie Ghose from the Electoral Reform Society.

His first big speech last year was so dismal that one columnist labeled the candidate "Bill McBoring".