as a way to encourage my friends to do spoken word with me.

Such rhetoric is not new to American presidents.

The same goes for earlier hard line rhetoric about rooting out the militants and destroying their organization.

The ancient Greeks had schools of rhetoric to hone their skills for the assembly.

So the opportunity to learn and practice speaking and negotiating skills is hardly inconsequential for women s advancement.

In fact what we're going to talk about, I think, is in fact a subject that is probably better served by a conversation than an address.

Cicero made his mark in the Roman Senate after studying oratory.

In some cases, that close communication is more important than public rhetoric.

China s leaders need to make several concrete moves in order to move beyond rhetoric.

Even Putin's predictable presidential rhetoric reveals a desire to initiate a real fight against terrorism.

In Venezuela, land reform and socialist rhetoric did not prevent chronic shortages of milk, sugar, and beef.

His promotion could be a major step up from Wen, who emphasized rhetoric and strategy more than implementation.

But Phil and I decided to reinvent Project V.O.I.C.E. this time changing the mission to using spoken word poetry as a way to entertain, educate and inspire.

After much old style Nasserite rhetoric, they decided to create the Close Neighbors Economic and Trade Association Council.

Woodrow Wilson was not a gifted student as a child, but he taught himself oratory because he regarded it as essential for leadership.

At the age of 16, some students went on to rhetoric school (where the teacher, usually Greek, was called a rhetor ).

Finally, we call upon all the parties to reduce the level of violence and the level of unconstructive rhetoric, as well as to renew their commitment to the rule of law.

But words are not without consequences, and there is little question that human rights has occupied a higher place in international deliberations during Annan s tenure than ever before.

For that reason, we should greet the poll results positively, and resolve to close the gaps that still exist between rhetoric and reality.

Government parties were also hurt by the nationalistic rhetoric of center right parties, which repeatedly warned against a betrayal of national interests.

But confrontation over globalization has clearly moved well beyond the streets to the columns of the financial press and the rostrums of mainstream think tanks.

Protecting human rights and empowering people will be the main objectives of OHCHR as it takes the lead in moving the human rights agenda from rhetoric to reality.

His family was long associated with the teaching of elocution his grandfather, Alexander Bell, in London, his uncle in Dublin, and his father, in Edinburgh, were all elocutionists.

Toastmaster is a general term, prevalent in the United States in the middle 20th century, referring to a person in charge of the proceedings of a public speaking event.

He attended Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle before graduating from the University of Washington in 1934, with a degree in speech and drama.

The other thing that religions are really aware of is speak well I'm not doing a very good job of this here but oratory, oratory is absolutely key to religions.

While recognizing the challenges in designing policies to address such problems, there is an urgent need to move beyond rhetoric.

After the September 11, 2001 attacks, there was continued world pressure for the Saudi government to crack down on the radical imams preaching anti American rhetoric in Saudi mosques.

3.9 The authors contend that the Supreme Court underestimated the danger of what it termed Nazi rhetoric , and that the object of article 4 is to combat racism at its roots.

This has been accompanied by cascades of populist rhetoric loud voices and defiant words, and promises to fight to the death against ill defined but malignant economic special interests.

Polish Interior Minister Mieczyslaw Moczar, the leader of the nationalist faction, combined communist rhetoric with a language proper to fascist movements in order to mobilize the masses against the cosmopolitan liberal intelligentsia.

Oratory and inspirational rhetoric, however, are not the only forms of communication with which leaders frame issues and create meaning for their followers.

But, beyond eloquent rhetoric, these changes have been incremental, and have been superimposed on the Bank s operations, rather than becoming part of its organizational DNA.

Hovland drew upon ideas dating back to Aristotle s Rhetoric, which argued that persuasiveness is built on the communicator s ethical character, the audience s emotional state, and the logic of the argument, the latter being the most powerful.

Organizational skills the ability to attract and inspire an effective inner circle of followers can compensate for rhetorical deficiencies, just as effective public rhetoric can partly compensate for low organizational skills.

One would have thought this rhetoric belonged to a different era, yet I fear it represents something graver than simply rhetoric it sheds light on the Government of Iran's policies and intentions vis à vis the State of Israel.

Whatever the rhetoric in France, for example, the policies and attitudes in countries such as Britain or Poland demonstrate that good trans Atlantic relations can be maintained.

She wants her Lean In circles all women spaces to be supported by corporate workplaces to teach women negotiation, public speaking, and other skills, all merged with upbeat collective support.

We stayed full time students, but in between we traveled, performing and teaching nine year olds to MFA candidates, from California to Indiana to India to a public high school just up the street from campus.

As it stands, there is no shortage of resistance to freedom oriented reform and pressure to pursue statist policies. If believers in traditional European values fail to ensure that their voices, too, are heard, hazy rhetoric will continue to overshadow constructive debate of the EU s problems and misguided policies will continue to undermine Europe s prospects.

State feminism is generally more a demonstration of rhetoric or political symbolism, concerned primarily with projecting a progressive image internationally, than it is a real motor for change.

It did not amount to approval of the persecution and mass extermination of the Jews during the Second World War.

In addition to communicating with distant audiences, leaders need the ability to communicate one on one or in small groups. In some cases, that close communication is more important than public rhetoric.

I use spoken word to help my students rediscover wonder, to fight their instincts to be cool and unfazed and, instead, actively pursue being engaged with what goes on around them, so that they can reinterpret and create something from it.

All that tough anti Western rhetoric on behalf of the nation the bare chested horsemanship, the kissing of tigers, and the flying with cranes has paid off the aloof French have at long last recognized Russian superiority and are sending one of their greatest representatives to partake of it.