Sentence examples for extraordinary speeches from inspiring English sources

In fact, Mr. Torricelli might have done well to consult "In Our Own Words: Extraordinary Speeches of the American Century," which he co-edited (and in which Al Capone, announcing his retirement in 1927, said: "I've been spending the best years of my life as a public benefactor. I've given people the light pleasures, shown them a good time. And all I get is abuse").

President Obama is currently out in the country giving some extraordinary speeches.

Last Sunday, at a high school in Newtown, Connecticut, President Obama gave one of the most extraordinary speeches of his presidency.

In both countries, you have Medvedev and Jiabao making the most extraordinary speeches, confessing error, saying our system doesn't work, it's gotta be changed.

It was an extraordinary speech.

In an extraordinary speech to his party's conference in 1976, he quoted Joseph Conrad: "Always facing it, Captain MacWhir.

In short, change is still the issue, and the focus of his solid but not extraordinary speech was incremental improvement.

And any hope of doing so was dashed when he delivered an extraordinary speech in Virginia Beach.

The most extraordinary speech he ever listened to, though, was one William Jennings Bryan gave at the Democratic National Convention in July of 1896.

While the Oxford English Dictionary reworded its definition a decade ago, staff at the Macquarie had been alerted to the issue only in the aftermath of Gillard's extraordinary speech in parliament.

The extraordinary speech forms part of a chilling 320-page war games scenario – codenamed Wintex-Cimex 83 – which was drawn up by top intelligence, defence and Home Office staff.