Sentence examples for main speaker of from inspiring English sources

The main speaker of the Symposium was Malcolm Baldridge, president of Scovill Manufacturing Company, and this year's International Boss of the Year, agreed.

Socrates (as main speaker of the dialogue) ascribes relativism to Protagoras, who is famous for saying that "man is the measure".

First, Plutarch respects both the skeptical/aporetic element in Plato (as marked by the tentativeness with which Socrates and the other main speakers in his dialogues regularly advance their views) and the views apparently endorsed by the main speakers of the dialogues, which were widely regarded as Plato's own doctrines (e.g. Diogenes Laertius 3.51 2).

The intention in a system with a subwoofer is often to use small main speakers (of which there are two for stereo and five or more for surround sound or movie tracks) and to hide the subwoofer elsewhere (e.g. behind furniture or under a table), or to augment an existing speaker to save it from having to handle woofer-destroying low frequencies at high levels.

J-J is shorthand for the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, the party's biggest annual event, which was even bigger this year with 9,000 tickets sold compared with 5,000 or so in previous years, largely because of the number of candidates and the eagerness to hear the main speaker, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York.

At a seminar it sponsored in Cancún, Mexico, last summer, the Joy Foundation's main speaker was Representative Ron Paul, Republican of Texas, who has introduced legislation to repeal the 16th Amendment and to end withholding of income taxes from paychecks.

Instead, every main speaker, including Gov. George E. Pataki of New York, former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and Representative Vito J. Fossella, hit the same two points, again and again, in their brief addresses.

In August, he suffered what some saw as a serious public humiliation when an outdoor event at which he was to be the main speaker, planned months ahead of time, was abruptly canceled the night before by the Interior Ministry for reasons that remain unclear.

The main speaker was Gu Wei Hao, of the Aviation Industry Corporation of China.

Over four days, 39 main speakers, most of whom are world leaders in their field, compress their ideas into 18-minute-long whiz-bang talks before a slightly stunned-looking 300-strong audience.

Each of these states, Socrates' or the other main speaker's interlocutors agree, is always "of something" rather than nothing — it is impossible to have a state of this sort which is not of anything at all.