How pertinent its words now seem.
Ashton, who has been an actor since childhood, said that the speech felt particularly pertinent to her. "I'm attempting to write a book exploring female identity through the microcosm of acting, so the notion of the whole world being a stage – and perceptions of performance and reality becoming tangled – is very close to home for me".
On the basis of this definition, they define two notions pertinent to entailment relations among speech acts, namely strong illocutionary commitment and weak illocutionary commitment.
It is in this context that Nasrallah's speech is most pertinent.
The child's audio is being recorded, but only so that the doll can perfect its speech recognition, recall pertinent details about its owner, and archive those conversations so that parents can later access them and review them online, giving them full transparency and control over what information the Barbie stores about their child.
The work of Teki, Chait, et al. thus offers the first explanation for our ability to home in on speech and other pertinent sounds, even amidst a sea of background noise.
One easy way to do this is to include brief, memorable personal anecdotes in your speech that are pertinent to the honor you're receiving or the themes you're addressing in your speech.
Because what is happening now is extremely pertinent to academic freedom, freedom of speech more broadly, and how we treat each other as allegedly civilised human beings.
They were not entirely pertinent: Mr Blair chose to give his speech; events forced Mr Miliband to make his.
Today his speech would be just as pertinent and I have posted it on the front page of my personal site fabiencousteau.org for anyone interested in reading it.
