Over the last few years I have given numerous speeches, held a wide-array of roundtables and sent many letters to business leaders to encourage this.
Susan E. Rice, the American ambassador to the United Nations, delivered one of the most barbed speeches, holding Mr. Bashir responsible for the fate of all the people in Darfur.
O'Ree travels throughout North America, making speeches, holding clinics and handing hockey sticks to many boys and girls for the first time.
Also in the evening, at the Fashion Institute of Technology, a State University of New York campus at 27th Street and Seventh Avenue, about 200 mostly college-aged people arrived to attend a series of speeches held in the Haft Auditorium.
In the run-up to a crucial parliamentary election tomorrow, he is doing what he does best: making speeches, holding children, talking to the elderly and, inevitably these days, grinning for selfies.
Mr. Bloomberg, who delivered speeches, held fund-raisers and lobbied lawmakers to legalize same-sex marriage in New York, is now punctuating his official advocacy with a personal gesture: hosting and presiding at a gay wedding on the first possible day, in one of the grandest possible settings.
One of his last speeches, held in front of the Academy and witnessed by both Carol, who had since become King of Romania, and his wife Elisabeth of Wied, was a summary of his entire career as a politician, intellectual, and civil servant.
Dubcek began making changes to increase freedom of speech, hold elections at state and national levels and legalise non-communist parties.
We are a country of freedoms, a country where religious freedom and freedom of speech hold equal standing, a country in which the construction of a building and the destruction of a book are rights extended to all, even if opposed by most.
