In a telling speech on Wednesday, she emphasized the Council's role "as a balance to executive authority" and said that under her leadership, the body had "never shied away from a fight".
A hint of de Blasio's pro-business stance can be found in a telling speech on economic development that he gave in late July at New York University's Wagner School of Public Service.
In a significant and telling speech at the summit, the US attorney himself said he felt "greater transparency" over evidence of wrongdoing was needed if Fifa's rules were to have the desired effect and provide a proper deterrent.
We were told his speech would tell us 'everything' we needed to know about how the Tories would get the deficit down.
They were largely heard in silence and, according to mainstream MPs, only Ms McDonagh made a telling speech which won murmurs of approval.
"It's definitely pretty embarrassing," Noyes told VICE News, referring to the twice-told speech.
At the end, many came and congratulated me and I could tell the speech had made a real impact.
But, also slightly telling, the speech didn't even get under way until 17 or 18 minutes past the hour.
In Gee's analysis the way of telling divides speech into stanzas, defined as "a group of lines about a single topic; each stanzas captures a single "vignette" /---/ they are often four lines long" [ 22].
They were instructed to give a speech in their defense and told that their speech would be video taped and subsequently assessed for efficacy and fluency.
