Sentence examples for speech upon from inspiring English sources

(Her acceptance speech, upon winning, displayed extraordinary grace; some folk would have counselled fury).

(To understand Barragán, one has only to read his acceptance speech upon receiving the Pritzker Architecture Prize).

FROM THE DISSENT By Justice Kennedy The court's decision has lasting consequences for political speech in the course of elections, the speech upon which democracy depends.

Moreover, we do not believe that threats are protected speech nor do we believe that the right to impose speech upon another is without limit.

The program showed Rowling's distress at learning that he had not been awarded a Légion d'Honneur, as family lore had it; she had repeated the claim in a 2009 speech, upon receiving her own Légion d'Honneur.

We seem to be in for a season of such debilities, with the arrival on the West End next month of the play of "The King's Speech," upon which last year's Oscar-winning film was based.

Today's affairs mix speeches upon speeches on the convention floor with a week of lavish parties around town.

The publication of a speech delivered upon his resignation as president of the House Corporation.

When it comes to harm, and specifically to one's right to free speech infringing upon another citizen's well-being or rights, we must establish boundaries.

My schoolboy Latin was not quite up to the task, and the Oscar Wilde suite at L'Hõtel on the rue des Beaux-Arts provided no Gideon Bible, so it wasn't until I got home that I was able to look it up: "After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them".

He told me that he was indeed right wing, but that he hasn't had his free speech infringed upon.