Before the speech, a student at the school asked for advice about how to get the president's job.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

He closed his speech with the hope that the nation would come out of the war with greater unity than ever before.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

On Friday,Mr.Gates gave his last policy speech before he retires as defense secretary on June thirtieth.

VOA: special.2011.06.11

Lincoln was to give his inaugural speech before being sworn-in.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

We noted that many conservatives raised objections before the speech.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

That same year, then President John F.Kennedy vowed in a speech before the U.S.Congress to put a man on the moon.

VOA: standard.2009.07.16

Secretary Clinton's Africa trip was meant to follow-up on the policies outlined in President Barack Obama's speech before Ghana's parliament last month.

VOA: standard.2009.08.16

The White House took the unusual step of posting the president's remarks on its website 24 hours before the speech was delivered.

VOA: standard.2009.09.08

In a speech before the German parliament, Chancellor Angela Merkel defended the new regulations on what she called "destructive" behavior by financial markets.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

He said he wanted to meet with the king before the speech in Cairo.

VOA: standard.2009.06.03

In a statement issued just before the president's speech, General McChrystal said the long strategy review provided him with "a clear military mission and the resources to accomplish" it.

VOA: standard.2009.12.03

Nearly all of Mr.Zardari's speech before parliament addressed domestic concerns.

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

In a Labor Day speech before union workers on Monday, Mr.Obama said it is time for lawmakers to end the debate over health care and pass legislation for him to sign.

VOA: standard.2009.09.08

But in a published commentary on the research,Simon Fisher, a speech and language researcher at the Wellcome Trust Center for Human Genetics at Oxford University cautions that before researchers can develop a drug therapy for stuttering,they will need to learn much more about the precise biochemical mechanism of the disorder.

VOA: standard.2010.02.11