Sentence examples for speech to that effect from inspiring English sources

The novelist Lionel Shriver thinks that fear of it threatens to extinguish literature, and, last Thursday, at the Brisbane Writers Festival, she gave an instantly controversial keynote speech to that effect.

Comedian Eddie Izzard and historian Dan Snow were there on Tuesday giving speeches to that effect to a hugely enthusiastic reception.

When England were dominating the last series down under, former England captain Alec Stewart - amazed that any Englishman might not be relishing every second - gave us lily-livered romantics a speech to the effect that you should never take your foot off a snake's neck.

"Is there any reason to expect we'd get a solemnizing speech to the effect that religion is bunk?" Justice David H. Souter asked the attorney general, adding, "The point of my question is that I don't think there's any reason to expect that".

Some Republicans saw a speech he made to that effect on November 19th as a partisan act.

Hemingway uses clipped speech to great effect; his characters rarely talk for long enough to start sounding unnatural.

A couple of months ago, Larry Summers gave a speech to the IMF to that effect, and it attracted a lot of comment.

Friday's newspapers were also heavily briefed to that effect ahead of the speech.

Yet no President in modern memory has given fewer speeches to lesser effect.

"Four days after the legislation was signed by the president," he observes acidly, "Greenspan made a speech to the American Council of Life Insurers, saying in effect that he was now their umbrella regulator, and, in the immortal words of Washington mayor Marion Barry to the white middle class that had voted overwhelmingly against him, they had better get over it".

His first speech to the troops had little effect, and some troops were close to mutiny.