Sentence examples for often spoken for from inspiring English sources

Jesmyn Ward comes from a community that's more often spoken for than listened to.

You can turn such things to your advantage, of course: Italian is often spoken for the sound rather than the meaning, for the cadences and colours and flourishes… so a foreigner's bluntness is often, Italian friends generously say, a relief.

The majority of space isn't fully marketed to the public and is often spoken for months before the previous lease expires".

But with limited production runs that are often spoken for long before the first model is built, they might as well be fabricated from pure "unobtainium". You'll likely never so much as see one in person, unless perhaps you're a doorman at some ultra-swank hotel in Doha, Shanghai, Abu Dhabi, or maybe Beverly Hills.

And if your calling is anything, you will always prefer him to the collective because the collective is humanity's lowest and the collective is most often spoken for by people who are nothing without it.

His characters speak in overly crafted, hip "movie" dialogue that is often spoken for its own sake rather than to "say" anything, his scenarios are crafted more for their relationship to other movies than for their resemblance to reality, and what politics he has are more focused on Madonna lyrics and failed TV pilots than they are on foreign or domestic policies.

NGOs tend to be focused on their priorities and often "speaking for" fourth world peoples generally.

Cone often speaks for the team en masse, something the others appreciate.

He also goes after Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, claiming that he was often speaking "for himself and not reflecting U.S. policy".

On policy matters like high school admissions and graduation rates, deputy chancellors — particularly Shael Polakow-Suransky, the chief academic officer — often speak for the Education Department.

House members most often speak for only a minute, though they get to revise and extend their remarks and make them look longer in the Congressional Record.