Sentence examples for speaking contests from inspiring English sources

This third construct has a broader scope in connection with social evaluation situations such as interviews, oral presentations, or speaking contests (Horwitz et al. 1986).

The issue arises in the context of Hippias' multiple claims to expertise; he can win speaking contests on any topic, and he has excelled in many different arts, from shoemaking to the art of memory (363cd, 368be).

His father, who'd been born in Ireland, was a talker, a newspaper ad salesman who won a national Dale Carnegie public speaking contest in 1935.

In 1958 he won a statewide speaking contest for simulating radio broadcasts.

The men square off in a speaking contest in front of King Agamemnon and a panel of army jurors.

Dr. Grossman and Mr. Sherman were in the boys' finals of Camden High's annual public speaking contest that year.

One person who appreciated the significance of the occasion was the ten-year-old Martin Luther King, Jr. Five years later, King entered a speaking contest on the topic "The Negro and the Constitution," and he mentioned Anderson's performance in his oration: "She sang as never before, with tears in her eyes.

I've tried the whole "I went to Girls Nation, I've been to Nationals for a speaking contest on the Constitution, I know the words to 'God Bless America,' I like "apple pie" thing.

Generally speaking, sporting contests aren't determined by what's often termed as 'luck'luck

When Misal was in eighth grade, the village school held a public-speaking contest.

Often intensely personal, narratives are seen as a medium through which social realities speak, hide, contest, order and disrupt, whether as "big" or "small" stories.