He was reelected senator from Illinois in 1858 after a series of eloquent debates with the Republican candidate, Abraham Lincoln, who defeated him in the presidential race two years later.
As the picture goes backward in time and then forward again, there are eloquent debates, much moral and physical anguish from Wilberforce, and a spirit of Christian resolve, attended, fortunately, by wit.
As a member of the Long Island Sound Study Citizens Advisory Committee (representing Federated Conservationists of Westchester), I have listened to eloquent debates as to just how much environmental damage this industrial facility might do.
The force has been unleashed this year by the Securities and Exchange Commission SECC) which after years of legislative work and eloquent debates, has moved forward with two main provisions of the JOBS Act signed into law by the President back in 2012.
He was also energetic, attractive and eloquent, particularly in debate settings -- just the kind of media-friendly politician who could get people's attentions in an increasingly nationalized election. .
And it's lavish with classical oratory, reproducing windy, eloquent, absorbing Senate debates.
In his review of Bernard Goldberg's "100 People Who Are Screwing Up America" (Aug. 28), Richard Brookhiser makes a welcome and eloquent plea for elevated debate.
Since 2010 he has made remarkably few major public interventions (his eloquent speech in a debate on benefits in January being one exception), but has slipped elegantly into the garb of party "grandee": an experienced counsel and close mentor to his brother and several members of the shadow cabinet, a think-tank stalwart and an intellectual out-rider.
The picture of Syrian rebels about to execute government soldiers is perhaps more eloquent than any argument may be in our debate over whether to punish Bashar al-Assad for killing 1,400 Syrian citizens in a gas attack.
Mr. Obama's eloquent speech should end the debate over his ties to Mr. Wright since there is nothing to suggest that he would carry religion into government.
