Speakers today need to forget the rules they learned in public speaking classes of the last century, or in debate classes, and focus instead on having a conversation with their audiences.

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The chair can only stop an MP from speaking if they break the rules of the House by straying into comment on live court proceedings.

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Now that conflict of interest rules at universities often prevent many real top experts from taking drug company speaking fees, and because many of those experts have given up the money because they are afraid it will hurt their reputation, the people giving these speeches are not always really the best and the brightest.

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He spoke on condition of anonymity in line with government rules that bar civil servants from speaking to reporters without authorization.

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In addition, even if an English-only policy is adopted for nondiscriminatory reasons and applied uniformly, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and some courts take the position that such rules burden national origin minorities because they prevent many members of these groups from speaking the language in which they are best able to communicate.

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"The club has written to UEFA due to a series of incidents on the pitch in the understanding that objectively speaking it was evident that the referee did not apply the rules of the game, " Barca spokesman Toni Freixa told a news conference Thursday.

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Speaking of Singularity, it and other new entrants in higher education are already disrupting the rules.

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