Sentence examples for off the speech from inspiring English sources

After rejecting at least three different drafts, Mrs. Clinton called off the speech virtually on the eve of her arrival.

Though shares in both companies fell Tuesday morning, after Mr. Greenspan's comments, by day's end both stock and bond investors had shrugged off the speech.

The president of the California Chamber of Commerce, Allan Zaremberg, shrugged off the speech, calling Mr. Hollingsworth's tinfoil hat a gimmick and insisting that his organization was fighting to avert higher business taxes specifically to avoid losing employers.

One radio broadcaster is said to have cut off the speech with the words "We've heard enough", while others have complained that Netanyahu's trip was a waste of taxpayers' money.

Arab ambassadors accustomed to tongue-lashings from the "brother leader" laughed off the speech as vintage Qaddafi, and at least one United Nations official expressed relief that he did not talk longer.

It was Jarrett who strongly encouraged Barack Obama to give his race speech — convinced when other senior advisers were not, says Dr. Eric Whitaker, a close friend of Obama, "that he could actually pull off the speech," and that in the wake of the incendiary Jeremiah Wright tapes, now was the time to do it.

The C.I.A. subsequently signed off on the speech.

The source said the aide had signed off on the speech and edited it.

The source said Gates signed off on the speech and edited it.

The other video, Speech Act Video, is based off of the Speech Act texts, another set of works in Vida's exhibition.

You hear all the klaxons going off, the speeches, the champagne bottle being broken against the ship.