In a speech devoted to the centrality of human dignity, Francis, 77, declared that the EU had lost its bearings.
Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former mayor, is welcoming the delegates to New York on Aug. 30 with a speech devoted almost entirely to the events of that day, an aide said.
In a 40-minute speech devoted mainly to trade and health care, Mr. Kerry repeatedly denounced the Bush administration, saying it lacked a job-creation plan.
Obama hasn't made a single speech devoted to poverty as president, and if you visit barackobama.com these days, you would be hard-pressed to find any reference to the subject whatsoever.
But in a speech devoted largely to job creation and economic development, Mr. Cuomo offered few details on how he planned to fight what he called the state's growing "public education bureaucracy".
Many Democrats said the subtext of the large part of Mr. Bush's speech devoted to traditional values, if not the entire speech, had been aimed squarely at Dr. Dean.
Strip away the novelty of a prime ministerial speech devoted to, um, tarmac and what the Tory leader proposes is pretty much what we have heard over and over, from Thatcher onwards.
Mr. Bush said Iraq "continues to flaunt its hostility toward America and to support terror," but the section of his speech devoted to Iraq focused primarily on Baghdad's efforts to develop weapons of mass destruction.
In a speech devoted almost exclusively to domestic issues, he said that his government had modestly improved Russians' lot in the last year but that more than a quarter of the nation remained mired in poverty.
The summer job market turned out to be far worse than the president had expected in the spring, but better than he may have feared on Thursday night.The second half of Mr Bush's speech, devoted to foreign policy, was rhetorically stronger and drew bigger cheers.
