Topic Vocabulary Bank Unit 1 — Rising to the Top

SPEECH/ ADDRESS

In her last major speech as PM, Theresa May said that the growth of an «uncompromising absolutism» in the UK and global politics was leading to a political culture based on «winners and losers».
In a wide-ranging speech at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Theresa May warned about the threat to the international order from populism and authoritarianism, and defended multilateral agreements such as the Paris Climate Accord and Iran Nuclear Deal, shunned by the US.
He gave a brief speech and led a procession of handshakes.
Days after bombing with a long-winded speech at the 1988 Democratic convention, Clinton joked about it on the Johnny Carson show.
Donald Trump unveils his foreign policy agenda in a major speech.
It was an excellent speech as he covered a lot of areas, had to be conceptual because of the time constraints.
Tillman signed autographs, gave an inspirational speech and interacted with the kids.
King gave the people of The Kingdom a rousing speech about how their bravery would lead to victory.
Then someone handed a microphone to Marjorie and she started a really powerful speech about how the Olympics could be the end of the line, a climax for a career, the endpoint, the highest point for a career, but it could also be a beginning point.
The Air Force prefers that drones be called Remotely Piloted Aircraft; but this linguistic battle has already been lost: New Oxford American Dictionary now defines drone as — in addition to a male bee and monotonous speech — ‘a remote-controlled pilotless aircraft or missile’.
The politician is living abroad and communicates with his followers through the occasional televised speech, press statements and Twitter.
Tom Wheeler, used his final public speech to make a closing argument for maintaining net neutrality.
He’s going to make his resignation speech. He’s basically going to say, I quit.’ But it’s not that easy.
The progress on controlling the stammer allowed Prince Albert to deliver the 1927 opening speech to the Australian Parliament in Canberra.
In his welcoming address from the IRS TRC national event in Montreal, Mohawk elder John Cree drew upon the metaphor of the journey to express the need for emotional and physical integration.

RHETORIC

The country does not deserve mere rhetoric; she must have decisive action.
Lula led strikes against foreign firms and denounced their actions with fiery, radical rhetoric.
Government rhetoric included land reform and promotion of an old comparative advantage of the Northeast.
Understanding nationhood involves looking beyond official rhetoric to see what these visions mean to local communities.
The ideal image of the social order in nationalist rhetoric is one that recognizes the responsibility of government to ensure the welfare of the common people, particularly the peasantry, and this too is compatible with villagers’ understandings of justice and authority.
He explicitly has rejected the doctrine of American exceptionalism — and this is not mere rhetoric.
The tensions found expression in an increasingly nationalist and militant rhetoric on the part of some activists.
The lack of ideological coherence and Garcia’s penchant for radical rhetoric and grandiose gestures made democratic reform impossible.
Government actions have created expectations encouraged by government rhetoric regarding worker input in managerial decisions that have in large part failed to materialize.
There was a significant gap between official rhetoric and how these rules were applied.
People look at the rhetoric during the campaign, the nationalist rhetoric, tough language about immigrants, about Muslims.

AUDIENCE/ SPEAKER

Shon Hopwood was invited to be a guest speaker before students for a lecture series at Arkansas State University.
A conservative talk radio proliferated and the influence of Fox News on intra-GOP politics crystallized, Republican candidates increasingly turned their attention, and their rhetoric, toward that narrower audience.
The newspaper reports that one of the group’s members explained the project to a sometimes hostile audience.
Those young people are tomorrow’s audiences – and their parents would be there too.
It’s a two-way street — journalism needs to be tougher and the audience needs to demand it and want it.
Many in the audience laughed mockingly when she told them that her group wants what is best for the area.
Our culture is changing, but what Fox News audiences don’t understand — or deliberately refuse to admit — is that culture is never static and is always changing.
Without a receptive audience, any speech act is rendered meaningless.
“The governor’s moral authority and credibility to lead are completely gone,” Fortuño said.
Her remarks were met with applause from Indonesia’s parliament.
“Both parties are using this as a wedge issue, because if they solve it, they’ve got nothing to talk about to rile you up,” he said, to thunderous applause.
After getting some mild applause from the audience, the politician was then asked if he would ever support his rival if the latter ran for office in the future.

TOPIC/ MESSAGE

For many on the left, however, his highly conservative views on principal topics including welfare, climate change and abortion are beyond a joke.
Themes include integrity, perseverance and teamwork, and there are clear messages about following your dreams, getting by with a little help from your friends and facing bullies.
The message was otherwise fairly clear: anything other than a rate cut at the September ECB meeting would be a shock.
Mr. Menendez told The Washington Times following the vote that even if the bill fails to become law, the anti-Saudi moves on Capitol Hill are sending “an incredibly important message”.
The recent general message from the Fed seems to be that it’s more about downside risks to growth rather than the economy being already weak.
Naval War College, said the new white paper did not outline qualitatively different strategies but sent a political message.

LANGUAGE/WORDS

Joe Biden’s references tend to skew older, with quotations from Adlai Stevenson and decades-old war stories about the Senate.
Clear words were a matter of practical rather than juridical significance.
The court will not read an ambiguity into clear words by giving them a strained or tortured meaning. Clear and plain words will be given their clear meaning.
Incidentally, the waffles served at breakfast have nothing to do with the verb, to waffle, which comes from an obsolete word » waff, » meaning to yelp.
A political theorist traces the shift from “responsibility-as-duty” to “responsibility-as-accountability” — in other words, when responsibility was no longer about looking after those in need and instead about rewarding the good and punishing the bad.
True to his word, the former special counsel resisted saying anything that might be used as a political weapon, refusing to even read sections of his report aloud.
Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg began his new role as the leader of the House of Commons by issuing a style guide to all staff members in his new office. His rules, according to ITV News, include banning his staff from using words such as «very», «lot» and «got» when writing to other MPs and members of the public.
If the language someone uses is perceived as being a potential hate crime, it is right to investigate the case.
Social anthropologists employ comparatively few technical terms which do not form part of the ordinary colloquial language to which they have been accustomed since childhood.
The spoken word has vast opportunities for variety by the use of tone, stress, inflexion and in the way that our words are delivered. Accent, dialect and the register of our voice, whether we use formal or informal language, all add to the variety, as does our use of idioms and colloquialisms.
Theresa May said that «words have consequences»: «Ill words that go unchallenged are the first step on a continuum towards ill deeds — towards a much darker place where hatred and prejudice drive not only what people say but also what they do.» She conceded she had been clumsy in her use of language on sensitive issues, such as when she claimed freedom of movement had allowed EU citizens to «jump the queue» to enter the UK despite being legally entitled to do so. Ex-Conservative chair Baroness Warsi said the outgoing PM had «systematically failed to challenge xenophobic and racist language» used by party members about British Muslims.
The resulting book, “As We Forgive Our Debtors,” made a splash in part because it was written in accessible prose instead of academic jargon.
“The current Step-Down Program is a system of vague standards, contradictory goals, and malleable jargon used to conceal what is nothing more than an indefinite or permanent solitary confinement regime,” the lawsuit reads.
He mocked the scientific establishment’s jargon by giving his inventions jokey names.
Such “easy” monetary policy, to use the jargon of the markets, provides a helping hand to the economy and caps returns on bonds, the main investment alternative to stocks.
The phrase «absolute unit» is internet jargon, meaning a large, muscular person or thing.
Procedures are described in medical jargon and abbreviations.
The politician was joking to attack his political opponent for destroying evidence or, in legal jargon, obstructing justice.
Inside the U.S., «America» and «American» typically refer to the United States. But outside the U.S., both terms are also used in reference to other countries in North America, Central America, South America and the Caribbean.
A decade ago, you didn’t hear any Democrat talking about systemic racism. You didn’t hear any Democrat using terms like ‘institutional racism’.