The aim of a refutation speech is to answer the doubts and questions raised by the opposition in the cross-examination speech and from there to re-state one's own case in persuasive terms.
Balls left the Leeds Arena as soon as he had delivered his concession speech, refusing to answer questions from reporters.
Obama's speech aimed to answer how the US would defend itself from such cyber-exploits and attacks.
In a much-heralded speech meant to answer Barack Obama's ringing re-endorsement of a Palestinian state in Cairo ten days earlier, Binyamin Netanyahu spat out the required pair of words.
Not only does this 13 line speech fail to answer Cornwall's question, there is also (at least in the eyes of everyone else on stage) no apparent reason for it, and its string of metaphors builds into one involving dogs which both know "naught" and follow nothing, syntactically as well as metaphorically.
While the arguments he offered tonight were largely familiar, he gathered those arguments into one speech, seeking to answer those who argue that the threat is not that urgent and that a war now will destabilize the Middle East and distract from the war on terrorism.
These include an in-house, text-based virtual assistant (called TESS), capable of interpreting either text or speech inputs to answer business support questions, and an AI system called the MyBucks Artificial Intelligence Collections Algorithm MAICAA),capable of predicting re-payment behavior of clients several weeks in advance.
In his 50 minutes on stage, for his speech and to answer questions, Schmidt didn't use the word, "paper," alone (as opposed to newspaper) once.
The prime minister's speech is designed to answer critics who accuse him of talking tough but failing to take action.
Mr. Clinton arrived at the restaurant shortly before 9 p.m., just as President Bush was starting his speech but declined to answer questions.
In his speech, Brennan sought to answer critics who for years have demanded information on how U.S. officials decide whom they can kill in drone attacks and how often civilians have been accidentally killed.
