"The decisions I took today were not meant ever to target certain persons, nor did I intend to embarrass institutions, nor was my aim to narrow freedoms, " Mr Mursi said late on Sunday during a speech to mark the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
Angolan president Jose Eduardo dos Santos issued a rallying call in his speech to mark the official opening of the competition, which was attended by several heads of state, including South Africa's Jakob Zuma whose country hosts the World Cup finals later this year.
Perhaps Facebook reasoned that the masses would rather see a pretty face, rather a speech by founder Mark Zuckerberg, not traditionally known for his public-speaking abilities.
In Lebanon, the head of the Hezbollah movement which fought Israel to a standstill in the south, causing its withdrawal, made a speech in Beirut to mark the anniversary.
In the most famous fictional speech of all time, Mark Antony had shown sensitivity to his different audiences in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar by asking his "Friends, Romans, countrymen" to lend him their ears.
As Mark mentioned in his speech at the press conference after the first public demo of the vehicle early this year, blind drivers have other sources of information beyond the DriveGrip and SpeedStrip controls.
So, as Mark Carney said in his speech, "bygones are not bygones": past failures affect future policy.
President Nicolas Sarkozy was due in London that day to mark the anniversary of the speech, which de Gaulle gave just four days after the Nazis rolled into Paris.
And we believe that the election of President Obama was a great mark in history, especially his speech in Cairo, which gave hope to find peaceful solutions to controversial issues.
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His speech did garner the frequent standing ovations that usually mark a State of the Union address, not only from Republicans, but also from Democrats.
Prof Carl Devos of Ghent University said that the passage of the speech should have been dropped, while monarchy expert Prof Mark Van den Wijngaert said a comparison with the 30s was "a bridge too far".
Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney zeroed in on this point in a speech last week in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
The speech was actually arranged two years ago as part of events to mark the school's hundredth anniversary.
Mark and I had more to talk about than just his speech.
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Two younger hopefuls, Bobby Jindal (governor of Louisiana) and Mark Sanford (governor of South Carolina) have self-destructed, one with a dismal speech, the other with a sexual scandal.
"Facebook's mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected, " Mark Zuckerberg, the company's 24-year-old chief executive, said in a keynote speech at the conference Wednesday.
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