Sentence examples for penultimate speech from inspiring English sources

This is delusional and wrong, as ill-judged as the claim by Nicolae Ceaușescu, in his penultimate speech as Romanian dictator in 1989, that there would be no reform of his country until "apple trees grew pears".

All Hal's former companions "are banished till their conversations / Appear more wise and modest to the world," Prince John says, in the play's penultimate speech, which was cut from this production.

Dernbach slashes and misses the penultimate delivery.

Vengeance of Marylou's sort requires a Big Reveal: a penultimate, ante-murder speech concisely explaining who's doing the avenging and what's being avenged.

They point to the penultimate line in the speech, "other measures will be laid before you".

Ten years later, having wrested control of the sprawling system and transformed it into a national laboratory for reform, Mr. Bloomberg devoted most of his penultimate State of the City speech on Thursday to education, which he hopes will form the cornerstone of his legacy.

At times, Obama's penultimate State of the Union address sounded like a valedictory speech aimed at defending his record rather than proposing legislation that the White House knows it has little chance of passing through the Republican-controlled Congress.

The speech always takes place on the penultimate day of the annual conference in September, but a proposal has been put to the ruling National Executive Committee NECcallinging for the address to close the event instead.

Mr. Wolfe saw his point: He decided to make the brotherly hug the penultimate moment, then end the play with Mr. Mantello in the spotlight delivering a short speech about progress and love.

PR: The penultimate question.

But Apprentice penultimate show?