The original term, which has its roots in the Greek verb for speaking, described a heroic story of oral origin.
5.38pm BST Lavrov, who has just finished speaking, described the shape of a potential plan for an agreement on Ukraine.
Dworkin's uncompromising positions and forceful style of writing and speaking, described by Robert Campbell as "apocalyptic", earned her frequent comparisons to other speakers such as Malcolm X (by Robin Morgan, Susie Bright, and others).
Berger stood to speak, describing the 2008 sediba discovery as the period when "all my dreams came true".
Some who spoke described the economy as already being in a recession, while others argued that it had cooled but still appeared to be growing, those people said.
In 1995, however, in a profile of Polanski in the New Yorker, she did speak, describing him as a boy who 'could never submit to family life.
By 2001, the baseball historian and statistics guru Bill James had created an unofficial award in his honor, so to speak, describing the most overhyped rookie of each decade of baseball history the winner of the Clint Hartung Award.
Many of the communications he receives from inmates who have read his work or heard him speak describe how meaningful and motivating it is to see someone who was once in their predicament go forward in such a way.
Those who spoke described a day of tears and interminable walks down the long hallway to Mr. Martins's office in February to hear the news, frantic phone calls comparing notes and a slow acceptance of the reality.
Broadly speaking, nanotechnology describes work on materials whose critical dimensions are measured in nanometers, or one-billionth of a meter.
When eventually they speak, Phillipson describes the scene inside the executive flat.
