But when we speak of a person as evidencing copiousness, we speak of someone who is abounding in matter, thoughts or words: Someone who is a veritable fountain of fluidity, spontaneity, repertoire of expression and observation.
That was a diplomatic way to speak of a target that Britain, which gets 2% of its energy from renewables now, has little chance of meeting.
The growth of good news and an explosion of books by ubiquitous Africa experts also speak of a new age of confidence taking advantage of the fastest-growing economies on the planet, huge discoveries of energy and mineral resources and more billionaires and millionaires than at any other African age.
Behind the myth of Hollywood lies a swirling melting pot of a place where nearly half of people speak Spanish and where, for every rising star, there's at least a hundred wannabes waiting tables or entertaining tourists on Venice Beach.
Guatemala is a country with a diverse population, where isolated rural communities speak a total of 23 different languages.
"Just a good hardworking guy who didn't speak a lot of English, " said manager Jerry Siegal, who doesn't recall the sons.
"The new administration must be broad-based with a mandate to speak for a majority of the people of Afghanistan, " said Patten, who is expected to travel later this month to Islamabad for a conference on Afghan reconstruction.
But Benedict suggested that its future, "at a time when many speak of its decline, " lies in seeing it as a community of many people united in a love of Christ, rather than as an organization.
Written by a series of successful professionals in the NSA family, Paid To Speak covers a number of issues that speakers starting out always have questions about.
And it's not used only as a form of address, but also when we speak of a mother in the third person.
On Monday night, PA reported that about 15 students -- members of the School of Oriental and African Studies' branch of Stop the War Coalition -- occupied the reception area of a BBC building in central London and demanded to speak to a senior member of the corporation.
After the head of Lorillard got up to speak only a handful of research people remained.
This follows an earlier ruling in a federal court that only the father could speak for a boy of such tender years.
Among the bevy of states that saw all sorts of turmoil when voters turned to electronic machines to cast their support was Florida, and while a recent motion doesn't speak of that specific incident, it does highlight a good bit of potential negligence.
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He doesn't speak a word of Spanish and prefers country music, but I couldn't love him more.
At the beginning he didn't speak a word of English, and he didn't know why all this was happening around him.
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Also unsettling was the fact that he had no ADT logo on his shirt and did not speak a word of English.
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So we'd like to see - I think many of us would like to see a definition that would speak more to the properties of a body than how it affects others bodies around it.
As a novelist and screenwriter, I'm sometimes asked to speak to a class of film or literature students at a university.
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The crowd of displays is headlined by a pair of 73-inch DLP sets, which both feature a host of marketing speak from Mitsubishi like Tru1080p (don't worry, it's 1080p for reals), TurboLight 180 (which claims to boost brightness by 10%), and the fairly meaningless NetCommand and ClearThought which manage connectivity.
Partridge is in the process of creating a charity consultancy arm of the business, which will serve to teach non-profits how to speak to a younger generation of donors.
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Yet it doesn't go far enough for us to feel much of anything as Algren goes through all sorts of hell on a mission most improbable, first as Katsumoto's captive (he learns to speak Japanese in a matter of months), and later as his acolyte, ad hoc strategist and joyous -- except not joyous enough -- companion in arms, if need be to the death.
Instead, the assimilation of elements of French into English produced Middle English and, with it, the basic profile of the language we still speak: a large vocabulary of Germanic and French-derived words organized with a simplified Germanic grammar.
The latter is a wonderful pick, visible through the trees as you make the short hike over a pine-needle-carpeted trail, edged by a tiny sandy beach (many of the ponds have no beach to speak of), and home to a bevy of quick-footed green frogs and one remarkably tame snapping turtle.
So to deliver a talk that will speak to all of them is just a really great challenge.
At that hearing, radical opponents of the oil and gas industry repeatedly harassed, shouted down and physically threatened a young lady who was attempting to speak on behalf of a company that is interested in doing business in the area.
But rather than being allowed to present their newest data and their plan, they were given a mere three minutes to speak at the end of a session about something else entirely.
Tommy Helsby, chairman of Kroll's European division, recalls that a few years ago the company sent an employee to speak to the board of a large bank.
On Thursday, the President will give an address to the Australian Parliament, meet with parliamentary leaders, tour a primary school with Prime Minister Gillard, and visit a military base in Darwin -- where he'll speak to a combined audience of U.S. marines and Australian troops.
These pieces speak of a man who boldly unleashes himself onto and into the medium.
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