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Meaning speaking meaning
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speaking
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Don't be afraid of making mistakes when speaking English.
Speaking English is useful.
Generally speaking, women live longer than men by almost ten years.
Speaking medically, I advise you to lose weight.
Would you mind speaking more slowly?
Speaking of Switzerland, have you ever been there in spring?
The lady that is speaking to that boy is his teacher.
Speaking of hobbies, I'm fond of baseball.
Don't be afraid of speaking in public.
When he finished speaking, there was a silence.
He's used to speaking in public.
Strictly speaking, his view differs a little from mine.
Speaking of foreign languages, do you speak French?
With whom am I speaking?
Who am I speaking to?
Whom are you speaking of?
A blonde is speaking to her psychiatrist.
Please refrain from speaking without permission.
Didn't you hear her speaking French?
Generally speaking, the climate of Japan is mild.
Generally speaking, women are better linguists than men.
Generally speaking, what she says is right.
Generally speaking, women live longer than men.
Generally speaking, Americans are very fond of coffee.
Generally speaking, the climate here is mild.
Generally speaking, boys can run faster than girls.
Speaking foreign languages is not easy.
Speaking of foreign languages, can you speak French?
In music or speaking, a pause is frequently used for dramatic effect.
Speaking English is very difficult for me.
Speaking English is not easy.
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I told you I'm not speaking with you anymore!
Why aren't you speaking in Korean? Is there something wrong?
The West taught the rest its way of doing business. its scientific method. its law and its politics, its way of dressing. of speaking and of praying.
Frankly speaking, how pitiful I am!
Frankly speaking, who would step forward? They can be harrassed by Lord Choi!
Speaking of professional hazards.
Speaking of: back up your phone, because some of the things on here are. irreplaceable.
Yeah, Mike. Unofficially speaking, the fox has broken cover.
I've been speaking with Hayley Whitestone, Evan's daughter, and only next of kin.
It's a chance to practise our public speaking and learn new things.
But he's three and he isn't speaking.
We understand from speaking to Dr Turner that Wilma went to the Family Contraceptive Clinic recently and was prescribed the contraceptive pill?
Are you speaking with him? - Of course not.
But I will be speaking with your uncle after school.
Are you speaking with him?
Don't forget that you are speaking to a lady.
Minister of War is speaking.
You are speaking of my future wife.
Flaherty speaking.
Yeah, this is Rico speaking!
Radio Leningrad speaking.
Who's speaking, please?
He insists on speaking to you, sir.
Inspector Kane speaking.
Dubois speaking.
Hello, this is General Shubin speaking I must speak to His Excellency at once.
General Shubin, Dubois speaking.
Here, at the place of his humiliation, the old man would waste away miserably for the rest of his life and here the story would, strictly speaking, be over.
Mind you, I'm not speaking to you, you traitors.
But speaking of advice, just between us.
Housekeeper speaking.
You mean, of course, alcoholically speaking.
Speaking of that, perhaps now you'll tell us. a little bit about who you are.
Mme Lepic is speaking to M Lepic.
This is the Paris police reporter speaking.
News and current affairs
On the contrary, expansion takes away the worries - be they real or imagined - that surround the situation of the large Russian-speaking populations that now live outside of Russia but within the borders of the former Soviet Union.
The more worrisome source of anti-Semitism is different and justifies speaking of a new anti-Semitism.
Midway through her remarks, she began speaking not to the Syrian ambassador, who was in the room, or even the Syrian government, but directly to the Syrian people.
Speaking directly to citizens - seeing a country's people, as well as its government - is not just a rhetorical device.
Indeed, experience gives little reason to presume that a modern way of speaking, willingness to liberalize the economy, and an urge for technological development automatically translates into a democratic opening.
That requires listening as well as speaking.
In a speech marking the state gas monopoly Gazprom's tenth anniversary in 2003, Putin stated his position explicitly, speaking of the company as one of the few strong geopolitical levers left to Russia after the Soviet collapse.
In 2004, both the EU and US were tardy in speaking in defense of Ukraine's democrats.
But Bush rejected this, and persists in speaking of victory in Iraq - though it is unclear what that now means.
But honestly speaking, nothing has been done that could not be explained by pure self interest.
Although this example may suggest that Africans are united against homosexuality, they are not; gay advocates are simply terrified of speaking out, frightened that their support will be interpreted as an admission that they are gay.
I have to admire the third Baltic president - Vaira Vike-Freiberga from Latvia - who decided to go to Moscow, honouring what should be honoured, and speaking aloud about what should not be hidden.
Speaking from personal experience, I have to say that they can, because even I, a professional economist, have occasionally had to stop myself from making exactly the same error.
Since then, George W. Bush and Obama have echoed similar sentiments when speaking about their educational-policy goals.
For example, among the Luhya in Western Kenya, it is not uncommon for Muslims to slaughter animals during funerals, even though, strictly speaking, there is no such provision in Islam.
I was moved: The man who symbolized glasnost and perestroika, who had allowed the peaceful emancipation of most of Eastern and Central Europe, was speaking.
A quotation by President John F. Kennedy states that high tax rates can strangle the economy, but Kennedy's was speaking a half-century ago, when the top marginal tax rates were twice what they are today.
Economically speaking, where Asia goes in the future, the world will follow.
That is why, in many US cities, it is common to see people with serious mental illnesses speaking to themselves and otherwise acting out, sometimes violently, on the street.
In the spring of 2009, speaking in Prague, Obama advanced a bold ambition: a world without nuclear weapons.
The purpose of the review was to determine whether the division of competences between the EU and UK was, broadly speaking, appropriate.
Nonetheless, the child-liberation movement that Satyarthi, Yousafzai, and others have helped to mobilize is growing by the day, and new, courageous voices are speaking out against injustices that cannot be allowed to persist for another generation.
Speaking with the speech of men.