Instead, the speech presented what sounded like a fairly cost-free, win-win plan.
The speech also presented the case that racial differences were similar to political or religious differences.
Lincoln's three-hour speech presented thorough moral, legal and economic arguments against slavery, and set the stage for Lincoln's political future.
Lord Norwich gave a short speech, praising the mare and Harry's stables, then gallantly presented the statuette to her.
Cameron's speech presented a defence of interventionism and praised the Arab spring.
The speech described the dysfunction of the European economy and presented a rationale for U.S. aid.
But Holmes's dissent, saying that to be considered criminal, speech must present "a clear and present danger," became the implicit law of the land.
Reagan's speech at the 1980 Republican convention presented a very different image.
(Inaugurative speech presented at the Great Tlomacka Synagogue on 2.12.1923).
This speech presented a new side of him.