But these conservative-pleasing bits of the speech represented a victory for the forces of the status quo rather than radicalism.

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And Mr Prentis said he hoped Tony Blair's speech represented a fresh start in terms of the relationship between unions and New Labour.

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President Obama, your speech represented a paean to corporatism.

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Four of the 11 parties represented in parliament rejected the speech outright, while the others all voiced reservations.

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It also represented a broader goal of Nuance as a speech recognition company: creating personal dictionaries that better understand what we say and type to a machine, be it a smartphone, car or laptop.

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And that is what happened to Lars Hedegaard when the Muslim assassins shot at him represented the next level of the war against the freedom of speech.

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Since the draft speech drew on available intelligence, his office - represented by a staffer, Fred Fleitz , who is himself a career CIA analyst - sought Intelligence Community clearance.

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That opponents of free speech today occupy the top echelons of power in Washington and are represented at all levels of American society constitutes a critical challenge to the continued vibrancy of American democracy.

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Kennedy saying that the torch is being passed to a new generation is that he himself represented a new generation. (He was) 22 years younger than Dwight Eisenhower, and what the speech promised was action, movement, (and) a new energy coming into the government and into the country.

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