Sentence examples for opened with a speech from inspiring English sources

Mr. Obama opened with a speech saying voters wanted bipartisan cooperation.

The event opened with a speech from Paw Oo Tun, leader of the student movement.

Lanny Fisher, unassuming and amiable, opened with a speech that laid bare his own confusion.

True to form, Kaczynski opened with a speech at the Westerplatte commemorations this morning, declaring that Poland has no reason to apologise.

Each session of Parliament is opened with a speech by the monarch from the throne in the House of Lords in the presence of members of the House of Commons.

"A Beautiful Mind" opens with a speech by the fictitious Professor Helinger Judd Hirschh), declaring that American mathematicians, having played an important part in the defeat of Nazi Germany, must now turn their attention to defeating Soviet Communism.

The third week opened with a major speech in Quebec City, followed by intensive campaigning in Ontario.

Junior level speech class, SP 324 -- Persuasion, has always opened with a warm-up speech.

Sporting the traditional robes and cap of the south-west Yoruba people – who have appeared largely in favour of the opposition – Jonathan opened with an unusually fiery speech that addressed a growing Islamist uprising in the north-east and, more pressingly for the south, a slump in oil prices and the value of the national currency.

The article, published a couple of days after the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech, opened with a reference to that famous oration, then went to criticise modern-day campaigners who take direct action on issues such as fracking and badger culls, saying: "King's heirs are not the pygmy protesters who move from one fashionable campsite and cause to another.

As is customary, the convention will open with a keynote speech by the culture secretary, Tessa Jowell.