In his inauguration speech, many were disappointed because they didn't hear those applause lines that they'd become used to.

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Mr Karzai made some of the right noises in his inauguration speech, though the specific are yet to come.

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Obama has spoken out about the challenges confronting public education, most notably in his inauguration speech and most recently in his address before Congress.

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Just laying the exhaustive string of liberal policy priorities seemed to be the point -- a companion to the ideological offensive in his inauguration speech.

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South Korea's new foreign minister, Yun Byung-se, said in his inauguration speech Monday that despite the "very grave" situation on the peninsula he hoped relations would improve with the North.

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In his inauguration speech, President Obama pledged to ensure that facts and evidence were never twisted or obscured by politics or ideology, as some scientists have alleged occurred, during the Bush Administration, on environmental issues.

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Nothing epitomizes more this spirit than the speech delivered by Rafael Correa in his inauguration ceremony.

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However, despite the pseudo-revolutionary fervour of his inauguration, he has come up with little, in his speech then or elsewhere, that smacks of revolutionary solutions.

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