Sentence examples for speech opens from inspiring English sources

The King's Speech opens, dramatically enough, at Wembley Stadium, a sequence that was shot at Leeds United's Elland Road ground and the Grattan Stadium in Bradford.

(Incidentally when I saw this clip in the cinema I initially found it hard to place the strangely familiar, gravitas-laden voice of the actor whose speech opens the trailer. It's Barack Obama).

And when, in Richard II, Shakespeare has the pan-European power-broker John of Gaunt (ie Ghent in Flanders) glorify "This fortress built by Nature for herself/ Against infection and the hand of war", and celebrate "This precious stone set in the silver sea,/ Which serves it in the office of a wall", his talismanic speech opens a play that closes with another welcome French-backed invasion.

The King's Speech opens in the West End's Wyndham's Theatre to strong reviews (see also May).

Every great NDP speech opens like the Gospel of Matthew, with a long genealogy tracing the party's anointed Messiah back to Abraham by way of King David.

The speech opened yet another front in the mounting Presidential Offensive.

She made the threat in her speech opening the debate.

Updated at 11.01am GMT 10.47am GMT Here's an extract from Julian Huppert's speech opening the debate.

"Your terrible pain is unnecessary," Mr. Sharon said, addressing Palestinians during a speech opening the winter session of the Israeli Parliament.

Mr. Jeremic's speech, opening the meeting, did not single out the Yugoslav tribunal, but to critics his intent seemed clear.

His brother, the former president, added his voice again during a speech opening a conference on immigration and economic growth in Dallas sponsored by his public policy institute.