Sentence examples for knew the speech from inspiring English sources

Yet while he knew the speech would send Labour and Ukip into a spin, he did not expect his words to set alarm bells literally ringing.

All sides knew the speech was a gamble on the grounds that the SNP would claim, as it did, that London was bullying the people of Scotland.

He knew the speech was wearing thin, even as the Rams improved to 3-8 the next season and 7-4 in 2001.

I had the poster and the T-shirt, I knew the speeches and the places he'd marched.

"If students are having inappropriate conversations, we need to know," the speech continued.

He holds a stiff sheet of paper, on which, we now know, the speech is printed in two columns.

Destiny has not given much thought to a career, though she has gotten to know the speech therapist at her high school and thinks that line of work might appeal to her.

Conservative commentator Peggy Noonan, showing her background as a long-time Republican speechwriter, couldn't help but admire Obama's craftsmanship, writing in the Wall Street Journal (Murdoch again, don't you know): "The speech itself lacked lift but had heft.

Although the prince's passion for environmental causes is well known, the speech delivered on Thursday evening in St James's Palace, London was particularly pointed in its criticism of companies that protected vested interests and came with a report that proposed raising taxes on them.

You know the speech, surely you do.

Lincoln replied that he was glad to know the speech was not a "total failure".