Sentence examples for outgoing speaker from inspiring English sources

"We have presented our candidate for speaker," said the outgoing speaker, Osama al-Nujaifi.

The outgoing speaker dismissed the political impact of his decision on Wednesday.

"He is known to cry," the outgoing speaker, Nancy Pelosi, told Deborah Solomon in The Times Magazine.

"It's going to pass with a bipartisan majority," the outgoing speaker said at a Tuesday press conference.

Boehner officially became House speaker on Jan . 5 2011, when he was handed a gavel by outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Votes are no longer always unanimous: the outgoing speaker squeaked into the post with a humiliating 60% of the vote, despite being endorsed by the party leadership.

Ali Larijani, the outgoing Majlis speaker, is a principlist from Qom but is on the president's side – and serves as a useful conduit to the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Now, Mr. Miller's friends have made him the all-but-anointed successor to Peter F. Vallone, the outgoing City Council speaker, and the second most powerful person in city government.

The outgoing House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, is reported to have expressed deep unhappiness at the deal, saying the White House gave in too easily to Republican pressure.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority's sensible capital program clings to life, thanks to an ingenious suggestion from Stanley Fink, the outgoing Assembly Speaker, and the willingness of Warren Anderson, the Senate Republican leader.

By Wednesday, the number of injunctions against APC parliamentarians had risen to 16, including outgoing deputy speaker and former APC vice-presidential candidate Chernor Bah.