Mr. Obama purposefully chose this hardscrabble town of 4,500 people, about 50 miles south of Kansas City, Kan., where Theodore Roosevelt once laid out the progressive platform he called "the New Nationalism" to put forth his case for a payroll tax cut and his broader arguments against the Republican economic agenda in what his aides hoped would be viewed as a defining speech.
Mr. Ashcroft gave what was viewed as a gracious concession speech, asking supporters not to contest the close election, and several officials said that would help smooth his confirmation in the Senate.
Near the middle of his second Inaugural Address, President Obama, in the midst of what's being viewed as a politically partisan speech, felt the need to tip his hat to sentiments with which he is not often associated.
I wouldn't talk about private stuff at all," Sara told The Huffington Post weeks before Foster won the Lifetime Achievement Award and gave what many viewed as a coming-out speech.
Two years ago, the Oakland, California, School Board decided to require teachers to acknowledge the vernacular of their African-American students, sparking a national debate over whether African-American speech should be viewed as a distinct language.
Instead, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. wrote for eight justices, such monuments are "best viewed as a form of government speech".
In interviews, Polsky has called his documentary a deeply personal project, owing to his experience as a Division I hockey player at Yale, and in a sense the film can be viewed as a veiled Jordan-style speech directed at a coaching eminence, Tim Taylor, who emphasized structure and system at the crushing expense, Polsky felt, of individual creativity.
The model can also be viewed as an approach to speech analysis based on the physiology of hearing, as opposed to more popular approaches based on the physiology of speech.
I think this was originally viewed as a way to get a speech-oriented pulse train that would then be passed through formant filters (see pulse-voice in examp.scm).
Yes We Can features a collection of celebrities and musicians embellishing and singling alongside one of Barack Obama's most memorable speeches, and as been viewed as many as 50 million times across countless online video sites.
"The threats that arise from global inequality and the destruction of the environment are interrelated, and they are the greatest threats we face as a human family today," Turkson said in a March speech widely viewed as a curtain-raiser on the encyclical.
