Jeb Bush, a former governor of Florida, says Mr Rubio's oratory can make grown men cry.

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Dirksen's oratory became, in the end, something of a mountebank performance.

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Those opposed to Mr Obama will say that Tuesday's oratory proves only what they already knew: that Mr Obama gives a fine speech, but that questions remain over the young candidate's rush to the White House.

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Curiously, there was little in Obama's campaign oratory about opposing abuses of human rights in Latin America.

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But once in government, Labour abolished the grant-maintained status that the Oratory's fans say was crucial to its success.

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Though he openly modelled himself on America's Barack Obama, his oratory never reached the same inspiring heights.

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Williamson was a novice at the London Oratory, studied at Lefebvre's seminary, and was ordained a priest in 1976.

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The nature and consequence of our resistance is captured in a poem written before the Great War by Sam Walker Foss and recited in the Nebraska statewide oratory contest by the late Ted Sorensen's father.

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