Last week, an 81-year-old man was dragged out of the meeting and arrested for speaking off topic.
The reporter knew that I was in a hurry and was only there to comment on the State of the Union, but insisted on taking a disrespectful and cheap shot at the end of the interview, because I did not have time to speak off-topic," he said.
The reporter knew that I was in a hurry and was only there to comment on the State of the Union, but insisted on taking a disrespectful and cheap shot at the end of the interview, because I did not have time to speak off-topic.
In Decatur, Georgia, a silver bell gets rung if anyone in the group of mainly suburban moms starts speaking off-topic during their monthly get-togethers.
I am speaking off-topic to Less Cancer, but I speak from my heart.
Republicans shut down Davis' filibuster about an hour and half before the midnight end to the legislature's special session on Tuesday, alleging that she broke the rules by speaking off-topic about a mandatory ultrasound bill.
Obama, in his final year in office, has spoken off the cuff about a range of topics, especially his views on the media and this year's campaign.
As with the old politics, so with the rules of oratory – Corbyn is not an electrifying speaker; he ranged confidently if at times erratically from topic to topic, dipping into his notes when he remembered to, but otherwise speaking off the cuff.
As it became clear that Davis might talk long enough to end the session, Republicans in the chamber began raising objections, contending that she had forfeited the right to continue speaking by going off topic when she mentioned a Planned Parenthood budget and a Texas sonogram law; they even protested that a colleague had helped her into a back brace.
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