Sentence examples for historical speeches from inspiring English sources

She read voraciously about Queen Victoria's life in order to be able to deliver historical speeches and answer questions from memory.

Note that neither Reagan nor Kennedy provided wonkish policy lectures in Berlin during their historical speeches.

There was even the tailored pop song by Akon promoting the cause, with his own lyrics interjected with famous lines from historical speeches.

In reading, it means more nonfiction texts -- recommendations range from historical speeches from Martin Luther King, Jr., and Winston Churchill to more instructional reads such as the Environmental Protection Agency's "Recommended Levels of Insulation" and FedViews, by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.

A list of major historical speeches is available at historyplace.com.[4] Many of these speeches (like, for instance, George Graham Vest's "Tribute to the Dog") aren't well-known by the general public, making them great for this test.

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But Lincoln, Breyer said, criticized the decision in a historical speech at Cooper Union, eloquently, and that, he said, eventually led to the Civil War.

You can wish and hope all you want and travel around the country giving your $60,000 historical revisionist speeches trying to change the legacy of Mr. Bush, but the two of you are doomed.

In the UK, a Spectator blog by Nick Cohen "said everything I would wish to say better than I could say it", wrote Rushdie in retweeting a link; and Jo Glanville, director of English PEN, argued that the works at issue in historical "free speech battles" had often been offensive or of "no merit".

And without some kind of relationship between this Pygmalion and his Galatea, what you have is less a play than a historical tableau with speeches.

The alliance will create a new imprint, called Random House Audible, that will try to convince consumers to download from the Web audio material, ranging from existing Random House books to historical material, like speeches, to new, specialized content like business books.