There is no better way to win the sympathy of a Labour conference crowd than to march to the rostrum and say: "I'm a first-time speaker".
Much, I expect, as it is for the first-time speaker in tongues, my dormant booing reflex responded so irresistibly to the sight of the education minister that the sound was coming out before I could consider the shameful possibility of being the mad, solitary heckler, among thousands of more orderly spectators.
Arabnet Cairo is drawing in first-time speakers to the region such as Sidar Sahin, CEO of Peak Games, one of the top 10 largest gaming companies in the world as well as Hossam Sokkari, Head of Audience at Yahoo! Middle East, Ahmed El-Alfi: Chairman and Co-founder of Sawari Ventures and Tom Erskine, Head of Smart Devices at NOKIA just to name a few.
This can be hard for first-time speakers, because everyone in the crowd will seem to be giving you a death stare.
When she became the Speaker of the House of Representatives, in 2007, Pelosi says she felt the presence of, among others, Susan B. Anthony and Sojourner Truth as she sat in the White House for the first time as Speaker.
This year, for the first time, the speaker is promoting wholesale reform of the state's drug laws, a change pushed by so many Democrats that the Assembly would have taken it up eventually.
Twenty years later, in the tumultuous 1932 Democratic convention that nominated Franklin D. Roosevelt for the first time, the Speaker of the House, John Nance Garner of Texas (nicknamed "Cactus Jack"), threw his delegates to F.D.R. at a key moment to break a multiballot deadlock and received the vice presidency in return.
And he talks, too — Watts said this is the first time a speaker has been built into a Sphero toy, and there's even an animatronic mouth that moves as he speaks.
It was the first time a Speaker was disciplined for an ethics violation.
For the first time, English speakers untutored in the Irish tongue can experience the exquisite vulgarity of Ó Cadhain's book, and perhaps begin to understand the exalted standing it has had among Irish readers for decades.
It is thought to be the first time that a Speaker has ever launched such an assault on a legal party.
