It also overshadowed the opening speech by Premier Li Peng, which was considered tedious by some.
Russia whose president, Dmitry Medvedev, is scheduled to make the opening speech tomorrow night, has 9 of its wealthiest.
Hopes for action that is, a commitment by Europe's strongest economy to help out the weak had run high before German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivered the opening speech on Wednesday.
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.
The changes will require separate legislation which will go through parliament before the next general election and could be included in the Queen's speech at the state opening of Parliament in May.
After a lofty opening, the speech devolved, as political speeches often do, into a list of proposals.
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"I think you can judge the nature of a man by the company his keeps, and I think pretty good company with Laura Bush, " said the Texas governor, previewing his wife's planned speech Monday, the opening day of the convention.
Thabo Mbeki, South Africa's president, delighted the anti-growth lobby with his opening speech, but did a huge disservice to the facts.
He said the "glitz and glamour" of the Queen's Speech - which also involves the state opening of Parliament - would be "based on a complete fiction" because there were only 70 sitting days left and he said laws took, on average, 240 days to pass from the first to last stage.
Mr Mbeki's speech at the opening of Parliament on February 4th was typically artful.
In his speech opening the new parliament he strongly backed the new loan and the conditions attached to it.
Mr Annan's opening speech to the assembly was his last as secretary general.
In a speech at the opening of parliament, Mr Bashir also said the government was committed to a "national dialogue" with all groups.
Santos also tried to hide the fact that President Kirchner upbraided him over his failure to mention the Falkland Islands in his opening speech.
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In her opening speech to the summit, the Queen did not directly mention the royal succession laws, but said women should have a greater role in society.
Prince Charles will also give a speech at the opening ceremony.
After the mayor had given his opening speech, they declined to question him - expected to last at least an hour - and moved straight to a debate and vote on the budget.
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.
Every two years, television's leaders gather in Cambridge at the Royal Television Society convention, to discuss the big issues of broadcasting, and hear the secretary of state lay out the government's latest thinking in a keynote opening speech.
In his opening speech on 9 December 2011, the Archbishop of Canterbury said that the church was not seeking a "privileged position" for Christians in the Middle East but a "long-term hope that the communities will have a guaranteed place in their homelands".
That made it the most valuable charity auction to support conservation projects, which is important, because as DiCaprio mentioned in his opening speech, less than 2% of philanthropic dollars globally support conservation projects, despite the fact that 140, 000 animal and plant species are becoming extinct every year, which is 10, 000 times the historic extinction rate.
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His speech was less a policy statement than the opening move in a campaign to reshape a debate where public opinion is both sceptical and divided.
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Mr Bush's speech was less a policy statement than the opening move in a campaign to reshape a debate where public opinion is both sceptical and divided.
Mr Lilley was moving the Loyal Address to the Queen on behalf of MPs following the state opening of Parliament on 25 May 2010, a speech which is traditionally non-party political and humorous.
When he first heard about the congresswoman opening her eyes, he heard in the car, did he decide right then to put it in the speech?
Mr Wen's opening speech and final work report on policies over the last five years was broadcast live on China Central Television and on major news portals.
Croydon Central MP Gavin Barwell, who proposed the debate at the backbench committee meeting last month, said after the debate that he had planned to mention benefits in his opening speech but ran out of time.
Advocates of free speech believe that opening up their arguments to scrutiny is the best way to debunk them, without any other viable option.
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