Sentence examples for speaking requests from inspiring English sources

Churches and synagogues deluged imams with speaking requests.

Clinton receives thousands of speaking requests a year and accepts a few hundred.

Though there has been less press coverage since the spring, Mrs. Paterson receives as many as a hundred speaking requests a month, accepting a few each week.

He said that Mr. Pataki had no paid speeches scheduled for the rest of the year and he noted that Mr. Pataki turned down paid speaking requests in recent weeks.

The firm that handles speaking engagements for Mr. Clinton said today that he continued to be flooded with speaking requests, as he criticized Morgan Stanley, the investment company, for its decision to apologize to clients for a speech made by Mr. Clinton last week.

A national campaign could lead to lucrative positions on corporate boards or a spike in speaking requests for a woman who, since her return from abroad, has been without a job save for teaching a class at the DePaul University Law School.

Then she learned that the speaking request was accompanied by an invitation to join.

In addition to doing research and starting companies, she still teaches undergraduates, and rarely turns down a speaking request, whether to potential donors or school girls.

Indeed, during an hourlong test drive, the Impala seemed comfortable with my spoken requests.

In 2007, for example, it began offering 800-GOOG-411, a free directory assistance service that interprets spoken requests.

The aim of this study is to evaluate the impact of explicit interventional treatment on developing pragmatic awareness and production of spoken requests in an EAP context (taken here to mean those studying/using English for academic purposes in the UK) with Chinese learners of English at a British higher education institution.