She was offered a speaking role at the Democratic National Convention.
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Last year, Mr. Cuomo pushed for more control over his part, while Mr. Christie requested a speaking role for the Port Authority chairman and criticized the exclusion of Donald DiFrancesco, New Jersey's governor at the time of the attacks.
Though he doesn't have a keynote speaking role, he is part of a panel session at the conference.
For years, Rickley would have a key speaking role at the conferences, in the Boston Copley Hotel ballroom, delivering over 100 technical papers in the course of his Doble career.
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In addition, he came to Washington after serving in his state legislature, as did Obama, and he benefited greatly from a high-profile speaking role at his party's convention in 2012 -- as Obama did in 2004.
The secretary of state was speaking after a number of MPs had raised the role of Irish men and women in the British Armed forces.
But if you buy into the notion of the university as a place where private investments bear fruit for private returns that kind of speaking truth to power role is less and less possible.
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Speaking exclusively to BBC Scotland's Chris McLaughlin, Whyte said he had played a key role in the sale.
Shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander, speaking on BBC One's Andrew Marr Show, said the Church also had a role to play in calling for change.
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Lord Turner, in what will be his last speech to the City at the Mansion House in his current role, also broke something of a taboo among prominent British ministers and officials by speaking openly about how if the eurozone cannot save itself through making bold reforms, it should attempt to dissolve itself in what he called a "controlled rather than chaotic fashion".
The next Archbishop of Canterbury will also have to answer a more basic question: is the institution he heads part of the establishment, with an accepted role as its moral guide, or is it called on to be a provocateur, speaking its own version of truth to power?
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