Sentence examples for house a speech from inspiring English sources

It has been 20 years and four days since I last delivered my first speech in this house, a speech that shook a nation, woke up many Australians and gave hope to those who thought no one was listening.

He is a personal attendant of the sovereign in the upper house and there functions as a sergeant at arms; his most prominent duty is the summoning of the members of the House of Commons (the lower house) to the upper house to hear a speech from the throne or the royal assent given to bills.

"Italy still has a diffuse macho and homophobic culture," Laura Boldrini, the speaker of the lower house, said during a speech on May 17.

In contrast, Washington has championed Mr. Chen as a human rights activist, and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton publicized his house arrest in a speech last November.

Mr. Jackson, former president of the Dallas housing authority, drew attention to the potential for political abuses in federal housing contracts with a speech in April 2006 in which he said he had canceled a federal contract for a company after its president had told him that he did not like President Bush.

Comptroller Alan G. Hevesi released his housing platform in a speech at Cooper Union.

Finally, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke weighed in on the housing crisis during a speech in Orlando, Fla., Tuesday.

So what changed between the governor's doveish comments when he presented the Bank's May inflation report and his Mansion House speech a month later?

Edit Bacskai, Mr. Mika's great granddaughter who was born in the house in 1950, made a speech at the opening ceremonies for the development last year.

"We will neither be Fortress Britain, nor will we be an open house," he said in a speech to business leaders.

Mr. McCain's most expansive comments on the housing crisis date to a speech last March, and echo Mr. Obama's own bottom line.