Sentence examples for measured speaking from inspiring English sources

With his silvery white hair, slim physique and measured speaking style, he has the manner of a seasoned movie actor.

One result was that patients were given pills without clear (that is, audible) instructions on why, how or when to use them, and some, getting as far as the hospital ward, said doctors as well as nurses shouted at them when slow and measured speaking would have been acceptable.

Over the years, he calmed down, became more measured, spoke as often but not for so long.

(Korean participant) There are some test items intended to measure speaking ability or writing ability, but I think they cannot sufficiently measure abilities for speaking and writing.

Using the SMQ subscale scores, measuring speaking behaviour at school, at home and in public, respectively, they all showed significant increases over time (p < 0.001, statistics not shown).

Mr. Vajpayee, who usually speaks in measured phrases, spoke harshly on Feb. 6 at a memorial for Indian soldiers killed last summer in Kashmir, saying that India would strike back if Pakistan hit first.

None of the Republicans voting against the measure spoke up.

But behind the scenes, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who led the public charge against the measure, spoke out in a heated meeting of bishops in 2010 and advocated a highly unorthodox solution: that the church in Argentina support the idea of civil unions for gay couples.

Farrington et al. (1993) and Hayes and Blackwood (2006) received favourable ratings because their outcome measures spoke more directly to theft.

These employers pointed out that they, too, are the business community -- and refused to let corporate lobbyists opposing the measure speak for them.

Differences in the means of these measures speak to differences in the emotional signal detection between individuals across the groups, while differences in the variance reflect the heterogeneity of the groups themselves.