Sentence examples for presentation speeches from inspiring English sources
Tony Wright, a backbencher, has fewer quarrels with Mr Blair's policy than his over-cautious presentation: "Speeches don't feel like speeches any more," he said, "words don't feel like words; they come sanitised in Orwellian blocks".
An enduring image was that of the finalists, seated and exhausted, stone-faced side by side sucking on bottles of water, as the presentation speeches droned on – protocol again intruding on the core beauty of sport.
A company founded by consultant Nick Varley, who worked on earlier successful bids for London and Rio, co-ordinated the presentation, speeches and bid literature that were a key component in Tokyo's success after two previous bid failures.
Simply in order to generate some suspense about which shows will make the shortlist of four for the year's top show, the organisers have now co-opted the BBC1 afternoon soap Doctors in order to create what are frequently referred to in presentation speeches as "the big five".
"In our view, there was no time to lose," she said in her presentation speech.
Work online · Bellow's 1952 review of Ralph Ellison's The Invisible Man Background · Nobel Prize presentation speech and other resources on Nobel site · The Saul Bellow Society.
Williams, the Nobel presentation speech noted, was a "housewife" who was just passing by; Corrigan was "the aunt of those children".
Write a short presentation speech answering the following questions: Do you think NASA should or should not continue to be funded at current levels?
There were only three judges: our chairman Walter Allen, an admirable novelist and critic, then confined to a wheelchair, so that I had to read out his presentation speech for him; Mary Wilson, the wife of the prime minister; and me.
This is the Oscar presentation speech, a task which is often assigned to a weirdly matched pair of stars, often in the newsreader coupling of older man and younger woman.
"The genes that Edward Lewis discovered have in fact the same order in our DNA as in that of the fruit fly, and they work in the same way," the Nobel Committee's presentation speech noted.
