Business group the CBI, which will host a speech from May on Monday, has been urging the Treasury to boost research spending, including by doubling funding for the taxpayer-backed research agency, Innovate UK.
The next year, I received a call from a leader of the Italian parliament asking to host a speech in our Porta di Roma store for International Day against Homophobia.
Most of the surveillance was carried out by 78 Fusion Centers, fancily named, expensive DHS operations that recorded, among other things, when Occupiers went to yoga class and when they hosted a speech by famous lefty Noam Chomsky.
At sundown on 20 October, Selahattin Demirtaş was sitting at one end of a crowded meeting hall belonging to one of Istanbul's associations of Alevis, while his host made a speech in welcome.
The trip to London was both an opportunity to raise money and a chance for Mr. Giuliani's campaign organization to present him as a statesman while also scoring points with the Republican faithful by associating him with Margaret Thatcher, the former Conservative prime minister, who was the host of a speech he gave here Wednesday evening.
This morning the world is not talking about a dubious song by the host, a lachrymose speech or even an appalling outfit.
If her husband, President Nicolas Sarkozy, had come to woo his hosts with a speech to Parliament, then his wife's slender frame and twinkling eyes upstaged his effort.
Long before he signed the draconian anti-LGBTQ "religious liberty" law in Indiana last year, he supported "conversion therapy" as a member of Congress, and later, as a columnist and radio host, he gave a speech in which he said that marriage equality would lead to "societal collapse," and called homosexuality "a choice".
They said an automatic weapon which may have been used in an attack on a cultural centre hosting a free speech event yesterday had been found.
The cafe was hosting a free-speech debate involving the Swedish artist Lars Vilks, whose cartoons of the prophet Muhammad have sparked controversy.
Mr Erdoğan's German hosts were outraged by a speech he delivered in Dusseldorf on Sunday before a huge crowd of Turkish immigrants.
