This was less a conference speech and more a national pep talk - a call to reject pessimism and to embrace the British spirit.
Bush's short speech came less than an hour after Gore conceded.
His speech was less a policy statement than the opening move in a campaign to reshape a debate where public opinion is both sceptical and divided.
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Mr Bush's speech was less a policy statement than the opening move in a campaign to reshape a debate where public opinion is both sceptical and divided.
That made it the most valuable charity auction to support conservation projects, which is important, because as DiCaprio mentioned in his opening speech, less than 2% of philanthropic dollars globally support conservation projects, despite the fact that 140, 000 animal and plant species are becoming extinct every year, which is 10, 000 times the historic extinction rate.
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Traditional ways of regulating the media need updating, Mr Hunt told his audience, in a speech that seemed to say less about television than any previous Royal Television Society ministerial speech I can remember.
One study has already shown that speech supported by special interest spending is less effective at persuasion than other forms of speech.
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As we've reported before, the operating principle in America has generally been that undesirable speech should be countered with more speech, not less.
Besides, cartoons no less than articles are protected speech.
They arrived at electric speech by more or less the same pathway.
Of course, you can be trained to bridge to certain answers no matter the question, but doing that will probably be even less satisfactory than simply giving a speech.
It is less common to dictate an entire speech for another elected official or speaker who doesn't work for their administration, said former aides to public officials and political observers.
Mr Monti also said he shared Mr Cameron's opinion that prosperity and growth had to be Europe's priority, even if there were other aspects of the UK's prime minister's speech he agreed with less.
There was a little less enthusiasm for the more esoteric section of the speech that dealt with his core theme: aspiration.
Typically, people with Asperger's have higher-than-average intelligence and struggle less than people with other types of autism with their speech.
Two opposed, more or less, any such limits, which they say infringe free speech.
Most importantly, it could mean less-valuable informational inputs are available to them if online speech and expression is excessively chilled.
He told the BBC that he could support nearly everything in the speech, and that the divisions over Europe were now less significant in the Tory party.
The chancellor could have taken the title of Jeffrey Archer's most famous novel as the theme of his conference speech today - Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less.
The liberal-biased speech codes that swept American universities in the 1980s arrived, more or less intact, ten years later at our largest corporations.
It's been less than a year since she started playing and already, they say, her speech has improved and she's more focused in school, which has led to better grades.
In a speech earlier this week, Mr Miliband said a future Labour government would have less to spend than those in the past, but could still "deliver fairness".
Members of other faiths will, perhaps, always think of him in contradictory terms - immensely charming and gentle in his personal dealings with Muslim and Jewish leaders and yet capable of huge PR gaffes, such as the now infamous Regensburg speech of 2006 in which he was accused of describing the prophet Muhammed in less than flattering terms.
In a speech this morning at the National Press Club, AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka issued a less than veiled threat to Democrats, suggesting that those politicians who have stood by while the GOP has taken a two by four to the American union movement better not expect their phone calls to be answered come campaign season.
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In his Budget speech, Gordon Brown tried to hide the fact that he was giving with one hand much, much less than he had already taken with the other.
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