Debates can take place as school competitions, speech tournaments, or classroom assignments.
The couple filed a complaint with the civil rights division of the Arizona attorney general's office, arguing that although the club is private and not inherently subject to the state's antidiscrimination laws, it is the equivalent of a public accommodation because it receives much of its revenue from nonmembers, in speeches, tournaments, Rotary Club meetings and the like.
But first there's the pre-requisite speeches from tournament suits.
But before that some lengthy speeches from tournament suits and sponsors.
In 2008, his debaters became the first top-tier team to switch entirely to electronic documents; they file research, construct arguments and read speeches in tournaments off of laptops.
Fluent in Russian, German and English, Nikitin's standing sees him regularly deliver speeches at tournaments and other events on the far-right calendar.
He had polished off an 8 a.m. breakfast speech to some tournament partners and a 10 a.m. photo-op with about 50 South American collaborators in a golf course venture.
This story relates to an issue I encountered once at a local speech and debate tournament.
Clarke is likely to focus on the same small details, even if as a lifelong Liverpool fan he is less likely to invite Sir Alex Ferguson into the team room for an eve-of-tournament speech.
(In 2011, she made a speech at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, using crossword words like Alda, Erle, and Eero. "If you try to bring them together in a story, you have to be wearing a boa and an obi," she told me).
