My favorite is to get someone, a friend, to count the tics over some specified period of time, like a speech, and then charge the offender an agreed-upon sum for each offense.
"Obama sounds like a commander delivering a speech to soldiers and Romney sounds like some office drone giving a PowerPoint presentation, " said one user.
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Craig stood before a microphone and made what sounded very much like a resignation speech.
To the suspicious, it all sounded distinctly like a campaign speech, and it got the pundits twittering.
That sounded like a retirement speech, but Boeheim said in the locker room later that he was referring to the fact that the season is nearly over and not to read anything more into it.
So you've been anticipating a speech like this, wow, for quite some time.
Ed Balls has said responding to the Autumn Statement was like "doing a wedding speech when you don't know either the bride or the groom".
And the State Department is an appropriate place to give a speech like this because of the role that agency will play in achieving the kind of goals the President will talk about on Thursday.
And to give immigration the attention it deserves, the need for immigration reform, the President gets out there and gives a speech like he gives tomorrow, and meets with stakeholders, and he'll take other steps as this process moves forward.
After a declaration like this, one could hope for a speech offering more than just policy.
Mr Berlusconi's lacklustre, almost blithe speech looked like a missed opportunity to influence the course of events.
It worked: On television, his speech looked like a campaign rally, with people jumping up and down, cheering.
How would you like to have to deliver a speech in those circumstances?
Sometimes I would overhear myself in the act of speech, like a man who suddenly sees himself in a mirror.
"It does, " agreed Waxman, thereby opening the door to a line of argument in which he found himself suggesting--apparently in all seriousness--that U.S. citizens might have to purchase a government-issued, Maxwell Smart-like "cone of silence" before making a speech in a public park.
He gave a very serious speech with a demeanor that made him seem like the only one in the crowd who wasn't all that happy.
"At school, if a kid is a little clumsy or not talking like the others, all of a sudden they are referred to speech therapy or early intervention, " says Michel Cohen, a pediatrician who runs Tribeca Pediatrics in New York.
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The ability of a device to read both gestures and speech seemed like something out of science fiction, and the possibilities one could imagine with such a device were limitless.
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If the speech came across more like a wish list than an action plan with a good chance of making it past the House, that's because it was.
's "I Have a Dream" speech, like the Declaration, resonates.
Sometimes when I go through old mail, I find really important messages I had ignored, like someone offering to pay me to give a speech.
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So this choice for venue for the speech, does this mean like a hint, a subtle shift in an emphasis from the arms control issues to the economy?
But speech, like water through cracks in a dam, will always find a way.
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Mr. BLOOMINGDALE: Well, like a lot of workers, you know, I didn't have a chance to see the speech in its entirety.
Sue Rothwell, from north west Durham, an NHS speech and language therapist with a voice like a fingernail scraping across a blackboard, said foundation hospitals "would really make a difference to the healthcare of this country".
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Available in gray and green, the Pentium-powered computers are contoured like a TV and VCR, and feature easy-to-use speech-recognition software.
Eventually, though, they're all reduced to a snoozeful thrum by a process that works like noise-canceling headphones -- every speech, stance or position has its nullifying opposite.
"I'm like a bride on her wedding day, " he said in his closing speech.
In fact, touch computing has eliminated the mouse on mobile devices and speech recognition like Siri and Evi could eliminate the need for a keyboard.
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Like Whitmore in Independence Day, Shepherd has a chance to give a rousing speech defending his relationship and fighting back against attacks from a rival senator.
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