This was a lean speech for lean times, with few personal anecdotes or lofty ambitions.
The ancient Greeks derived a structure for a speech for precisely this occasion.
Inigo spent years perfecting his sword skills, as well as crafting the perfect yet brief speech for his nemesis.
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He is scheduled to appear at a campaign-style rally Saturday in Minnesota and has planned another speech for next Tuesday.
Even George Clooney, nominated for two different "message" films, actually spent most of his acceptance speech for Syriana making self-deprecating Batman jokes.
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The new prime minister also called in his speech for a reform of the Yugoslav Federation, which comprises Serbia and the independence-minded Montenegro.
On his last campaign flight, Romney brandished his iPad to show reporters he had just finished writing his acceptance speech for Election Night.
"I haven't really written a speech, because every time I wrote a speech for the past one of these things, I didn't win, " he began.
This past weekend, I had the great honor of giving the commencement speech for the Communication Studies Department at my alma mater, University of Michigan.
But by the time she'd sobbed her way through a three-minute, 365-word acceptance speech for her Best Actress award, her look had gone from regal to ridiculous.
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.
House Speaker Boehner, whom Mr Obama singled out in his speech for having "walked away" from a "grand bargain" during the debt-ceiling debate in July, said the president's approach was unhelpful.
And it criticised the speech for being weak on transport, and for failing to make clear that much of the new money being spent here would go on new road schemes.
Mr Leslie wound up his speech for the Bill by saying it would give charities and voluntary groups a ready source of income if they were to empty bottles and cans.
Now this columnist is in favor of free speech for all--for political candidates and donors as well as journalists, for all corporations and not just ones whose business is the news.
The 'modern' stuff goes straight for the jugular with opening track Free Speech For The Dumb - a fast and furious re-working of the 1982 song from second generation punks Discharge.
He even suggested that actor Robert Downey Jr would make a better choice next year as his acceptance speech for Sherlock Holmes was the "only real display of comedy chops" at the ceremony.
There was no place in the Queen's Speech for proposals to introduce plain packaging for cigarettes or legislation on minimum alcohol pricing, although Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has insisted both plans are still under consideration.
In his closing speech for Vicky Pryce, Julian Knowles QC told the jury that she had been the victim of a perfect storm of incidents that led to her being forced into taking the points.
Ronald Reagan -- whose speech for Goldwater in 1964 propelled him into the national spotlight -- used the same kind of rhetoric and tactics as Goldwater to win the presidency against President Carter in 1980.
And at a Las Vegas speech for the National Council of La Raza convention, a large Latino civil rights group, Vice President Joe Biden continued the campaign's recent blitz against Romney over reports of his offshore investments.
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In a stump speech for all things digital, Gates told an audience of hundreds of BlackBerry-fiddling advertising industry types Tuesday that within just five years, Internet-based television will do to broadcast what the Internet has already done to print media.
You need to read the speech for the full explanation, but the basic idea is that higher inflation can help push down the real cost of borrowing - the real interest rate - at times when nominal interest rates can't go any lower.
The former president also took a swipe at rapper Kanye West's behavior on Sunday, when he jumped onstage during the MTV Video Music Awards and took the microphone from country singer Taylor Swift during her would-be acceptance speech for the Best Female Video.
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Bankston, a free-speech advocate for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, cites a provision in the Communications Decency Act stating that communication services aren't responsible for the speech that they enable.
With the likes of Google, Nuance and Vlingo now offering mobile speech-recognition services for phones, and the development of speech-driven systems for use in vehicles, Parakeet may be flying into a growing market.
Anyone who watched the frigid reception given Jeb Bush in response to his attempt to present serious issues for review and consideration would have every reason to throw away the speech prepared for the grown-ups and pull out the collection of laugh lines they had tucked into the briefcase on the way to the convention.
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