Sentence examples for influential speech from inspiring English sources

P. Guilford kickstarted that transition with an influential speech to the American Psychological Association.

Now, though widespread literacy has made written English ever more influential, speech sets the standards.

In February, 2003, former Secretary of State Colin Powell gave an influential speech in which he made the case for going to war against Iraq and prominently cited this evidence.

In January, 1875, he made an influential speech on the floor of the Senate calling for the withdrawal of troops and the restoration of "self-government" in the South.

He was skeptical, as he wrote in The Hofstra Law Review in 1979, that the First Amendment's press clause ("Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press") gave the institutional press special protection, as Justice Potter Stewart had contended in an influential speech at Yale Law School in 1974.

That director was Newton Minow, Nell's father, a distinguished Chicago lawyer, who served as the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission during the Kennedy Administration, and, in 1961, gave an influential speech, still quoted today, in which he described much of television programming as "a vast wasteland".

Four months ago, Mitt Romney delivered one of the most influential speeches of the 2012 campaign.

She gave powerful and influential speeches on lymphedema to such institutions as the National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society.

By Kelefa Sanneh September 20 , 2012Four months ago, Mitt Romney delivered one of the most influential speeches of the 2012 campaign.

At the opening of both the Short Parliament in April 1640 and the Long Parliament in November 1640, Pym made impassioned and influential speeches outlining the various ills of the kingdom.

In 1919, historian and sociologist Max Weber delivered two influential speeches to German university students who were trying to make sense of the German defeat in World War I.