Sentence examples for point of the speech from inspiring English sources

This was the essential, if unsurprising, point of the speech: freedom needs government oversight and regulation.

But the central point of the speech went beyond the well-remarked civility and compassion.

But the point of the speech, its overall direction, and how it would deal with Americans' energy realities remained in deep, often bitter dispute.

Senator Bob Corker, a Tennessee Republican who has indicated he would like to work with Democrats on health care, said: "The point of the speech was to unify the president's Democratic base, not to advance policy.

One of the most ironic aspects was that while Labour member and disabled activist Sue Marsh was the focal point of the speech by the main mover of the motion at Liberal Democrat conference, the "voice of the disabled" was nowhere to be heard at Labour's get-together.

From the White House's perspective, the primary point of the speech wasn't to persuade Republicans in Congress to embrace voting reform, or to force fast-food restaurants to raise their wages by almost twenty-five per cent, although it would surely welcome either unlikely development.

One of the high points of the speech was Ferguson's discussion of his own newly acquired U.S. citizenship.

"I talked with his speechwriters and they said that he himself dictated the main points of the speech; it's his own deeply held position," says Yevgeny Minchenko, a political analyst close to the Kremlin.

At one of the high points of the speech before this mostly Latino crowd, he talked of working with Obama on the immigration reform bill and marching with him in the pro-immigrant demonstrations of 2006 - the only two senators, he said, who were willing to "stand up" in those "difficult times": "Barack Obama understood something which is very basic and fundamental about immigration reform.

The major points of the speech, delivered before the Israel Policy Forum at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, were an elaboration of the proposals -- or the "parameters" as Mr. Clinton called them -- that the president described to Israeli and Palestinian negotiators on Dec. 23 at the White House.

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