The President's speech commences, and he offers the content of the cassette to the summit; but to the President's surprise and public humiliation, the tape has been switched for Cabbie's cassette of the swing song "Bandstand Boogie".
An exceptional character, however, whether in history or story, demands an exceptional plot; so the speech commences with deliberately archaic language to ask its implicit question: Can we Americans survive today and become the school of modern democracy, much as Athens was the school of Hellas?
In the last speech, commenced in a scene of characteristic comedy, he launches into direct exhortation straight from the screen.
A total of 320 speech pathologists commenced the survey.
Once it's over, you can sit back and wait for the best man's speech to commence.
"My leadership role began with Ed Koch in 1986," he said, with the air of a man commencing on a speech.
Proceedings commenced with a speech from a plainly dressed Boorman, brandishing a newly purchased Adastra 952 megaphone - the last branded good he would buy for a while.
Immediately after the speech, Johnson and his deputy commence a tour of the TV studios, offering immediate takes on the chancellor's offering.
As arranged, the police blocked off the traffic and our vigil commenced with a brief speech followed by a touching musical tribute.
And so, when the gala commenced after Medvedev's speech, the hit parade included the other great brands of Russia: Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Glinka, Shostakovich, and, of course, "Swan Lake".
He knew much of "Hamlet" by heart, and shared with one correspondent his still unorthodox view that the best speech by the villain Claudius, "the soliloquy commencing, 'O, my offense is rank' surpasses that commencing 'To be or not to be.' " It was "Macbeth," though, that seemed to haunt Lincoln.
