Sentence examples for used commencement from inspiring English sources

Presidents have used commencement speeches before the service academies to provide their visions of the future, and Mr. Clinton, in his final such address, offered a view that, while promising, sees menace on many fronts.

Her friend Dan Kessler, an English and physics major from Peekskill, said he believed that the senator was "a transparent politician" using commencement speeches to further his own interests.

Sure, George W. Bush used his commencement address at the University of Notre Dame this month to reiterate his faith in religious institutions as conveyors of social services.

The grassy college quad was filled with folding chairs occupied by a full complement of students, faculty, and guests, facing a temporary stage normally used for commencement ceremonies.

But there was barely a reaction when Mr. Lehrer, the news anchor of "The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer" on PBS, used his commencement address at the University of Pennsylvania last week to offer his belated opinion on the "Nightline" kerfuffle.

President Bush used a commencement address at the University of Notre Dame today to cast the involvement of religious institutions in federally financed social work as the next, crucial wave in a war on poverty that President Lyndon B. Johnson declared more than three decades ago.

Her convention speech comes 47 years after the young Hillary Rodham wound up in Life magazine when she used her commencement address at Wellesley College to reckon with that era's civic unrest and clashes between protesters and police officers.

Mr. Kennard, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, said he was simultaneously rejoicing and disappointed about the way things had changed for blacks since 1965, when President Lyndon B. Johnson used the commencement at Howard, a historically black school here, to deliver a landmark address on civil rights.

In 2002, Mr. Bush used his commencement speech at the United States Military Academy at West Point to announce, with no advance billing, the most important doctrine of his administration, the policy of pre-emption that led the way to war in Iraq.

C6 NATIONAL A12-15 ReliGroupsGRecruitedruited For Bush 'War on Poverty' President Bush used a commencement address at Notre Dame University to cast the involvement of religious institutions in federally financed social work as the next, crucial wave in a "war on poverty" that President Lyndon B. Johnson declared more than three decades ago.

The chapel is occasionally used for commencement ceremonies, lectures, and concerts at the school.