Sentence examples for speeches were held from inspiring English sources

And as concession and acceptance speeches were held, the first of the congratulatory telegrams went out to the winner.

Despite his explicit wish and opposition from his widow, speeches were held at his funeral ceremony, including ones by Alexandru Rosetti and Adrian Maniu.

After a week of retail politics in the lunchroom and hallways, candidate speeches are held.

In those cases, as in Citizens United, political speech was held protected regardless of who was speaking or what its corporate status was.

His speech was held up because of a new M.P., a Dr. Robert McIntyre, who represented himself to be seated without the customary Parliament sponsors.

Muslim leaders spoke against his scheduled appearance in Old Delhi on Friday, but there were no protestors outside the Taj Palace hotel, where Saturday's speech was held.

Sure, the country as a whole doesn't really care when the speech is held, but for people who are invested in the GOP debate they not only care more, they also have louder megaphones.

There's a practice of saying 'om' over and over again, like 'omomomom.' One saying is, 'Just as all leaves are held together by a stem, so all speech is held together by om.' " The Om Lab was dismantled and placed in storage shortly after a jazz vocalist visiting from Atlanta chanted its final note.

Thus, the teacher's speech was held constant across the four video lessons.

The record for the longest acceptance speech is held by Greer Garson, who droned on for over five minutes in 1943.

When commemorations of the 1863 speech are held in the Pennsylvania town, it will be a local resident who reads out the famous words.