(n.) A public speaker; one who delivers an oration; especially, one distinguished for his skill and power as a public speaker; one who is eloquent.
(n.) In equity proceedings, one who prays for relief; a petitioner.
(n.) A plaintiff, or complainant, in a bill in chancery.
(n.) An officer who is the voice of the university upon all public occasions, who writes, reads, and records all letters of a public nature, presents, with an appropriate address, those persons on whom honorary degrees are to be conferred, and performs other like duties; -- called also public orator.
Example Sentences:
(1) Remarkably, few of the avid conference organizers, and few of their fiery orators, ever stop to think just what resource flow has actually been constricting.
(2) So it is little surprise that a campaign, led by orators as persuasive as Boris Johnson and Michael Gove, promising to address all these anxieties in one fell geostrategic swoop, should be gaining in popularity.
(3) In an active life he was doctor, dentist, orator, editor, publisher, Harvard medical student, explorer, dabbler in Central American politics, army officer, and Reconstruction office seeker.
(4) He may not be the greatest orator, sometimes stressing the wrong word in a sentence or stumbling over his Autocue, and he may not deliver media-managed soundbites with the ease that the PM does, but he is good with the public.
(5) He read Virgil , Ovid , Horace and Juvenal in the original, as well as Roman senatorial orations.
(6) There is a kind of assassination, a funeral oration and someone with blood on his hands.
(7) But he'd been doing a bit of holiday cover for daytime DJs, and he has a tendency to, as he puts it, "ramble on": he recently treated the nation to a nine-minute oration on the shortcomings of Madonna's gig at Hyde Park.
(8) The 1976 Cushing orator takes a critical look at federal medical programs today, and at the health desires and needs of the public.
(9) The 1978 Cushing Orator shows the role of rhetoric in the process by which various specialties change in response to sociological and legislative demands.
(10) CV Sir Michael Marmot Age 65 Lives London Education University of Sydney; University of Berkeley PhD Career 1971-85: epidemiologist, University of Berkeley; research professor of epidemiology and public health, University College London 1986-present: chair of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health set up by the World Health Organisation in 2005; led the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (Elsa) 2004: won the Balzan Prize for Epidemiology 2006: gave the Harveian Oration 2008: won the William B Graham Prize for Health Services Research 2010 (February): published the report, Fair Society, Healthy Lives, based on a review of health inequalities he conducted at the request of the British government 2010-2011: president of the British Medical Association Family married, three children Interests tennis, playing viola The Marmot Review NHS Confederation Conference The Black Report
(11) Read more The MEPs responded to his oration with a mixture of boos, groans, shouts and ironic applause.
(12) Le Pen makes headlines and is a good orator – smooth and tough at the same time.
(13) The 1977 Cushing Orator looks at the question of neurosurgical manpower and its relation to national health policies, proposed or abandoned.
(14) These results suggest that by forming heterodimers, more elab-orate control of transcription can be achieved by creating receptor combinations with differing activities.
(15) Scholes, meanwhile, has spent most of the past two decades captivating football fans with incisive passing, but rarely with his public utterances, which have almost always seemed to bore the orator as much as his listeners.
(16) "He's a good orator all right," said Des Pokrzywnicki, a Warburtons stalwart of 11 years.
(17) When Rubio’s campaign launched last April, he drew immediate comparisons to another young orator: Barack Obama.
(18) Among them were her husband Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, two of the most skilled orators American politics has ever known and, as the men Clinton seeks to succeed, predecessors with whom her own rhetorical gifts are often compared.
(19) A gifted orator, he uses hyperbole and alarmism to great effect, pandering to popular prejudices.
(20) King was winding up what would have been a well-received but, by his standards, fairly unremarkable oration.
Public
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the people; belonging to the people; relating to, or affecting, a nation, state, or community; -- opposed to private; as, the public treasury.
(a.) Open to the knowledge or view of all; general; common; notorious; as, public report; public scandal.
(a.) Open to common or general use; as, a public road; a public house.
(n.) The general body of mankind, or of a nation, state, or community; the people, indefinitely; as, the American public; also, a particular body or aggregation of people; as, an author's public.
(n.) A public house; an inn.
Example Sentences:
(1) A former Labour minister, Nicholas Brown, said the public were frightened they "were going to be spied on" and that "illegally obtained" information would find its way to the public domain.
(2) For some time now, public opinion polls have revealed Americans' strong preference to live in comparatively small cities, towns, and rural areas rather than in large cities.
(3) Biden will meet with representatives from six gun groups on Thursday, including the NRA and the Independent Firearms Owners Association, which are both publicly opposed to stricter gun-control laws.
(4) Consensual but rationally weak criteria devised to extract inferences of causality from such results confirm the generic inadequacy of epidemiology in this area, and are unable to provide definitive scientific support to the perceived mandate for public health action.
(5) I said: ‘Apologies for doing this publicly, but I did try to get a meeting with you, and I couldn’t even get a reply.’ And then I had a massive go at him – about everything really, from poverty to uni fees to NHS waiting times.” She giggles again.
(6) The prospectus revealed he has an agreement with Dorsey to vote his shares, which expires when the company goes public in November.
(7) Whittingdale also defended the right of MPs to use privilege to speak out on public interest matters.
(8) 8.47pm: Cameron says he believes Britain's best days lie ahead and that he believes in public service.
(9) It is entirely proper for serving judges to set out the arguments in high-profile cases to help public understanding of the legal issues, as long as it is done in an even-handed way.
(10) A key way of regaining public trust will be reforming the system of remuneration as agreed by the G20.
(11) The last 10 years have seen increasing use of telephone surveys in public health research.
(12) They have actively intervened with governments, and particularly so in Africa.” José Luis Castro, president and chief executive officer of Vital Strategies, an organisation that promotes public health in developing countries, said: “The danger of tobacco is not an old story; it is the present.
(13) Neal’s evidence to the committee said Future Fund staff were not subject to the public service bargaining framework, which links any pay rise to productivity increases and caps rises at 1.5%.
(14) Fringe 2009 also welcomes back Aussie standup Jim Jeffries , whose jokes include: "Women to me are like public toilets.
(15) The fall of a tyrant is usually the cause of popular rejoicing followed by public vengeance.
(16) True, Syria subsequently disarmed itself of chemical weapons, but this was after the climbdown on bombing had shown western public opinion had no appetite for another war of choice.
(17) This is not an argument for the status quo: teaching must be given greater priority within HE, but the flipside has to be an understanding on the part of students, ministers, officials, the public and the media that academics (just like politicians) cannot make everyone happy all of the time.
(18) Eighty people, including the outspoken journalist Pravit Rojanaphruk from the Nation newspaper and the former education minister Chaturon Chaisaeng, who was publicly arrested on Tuesday, remain in detention.
(19) Chris Jefferies, who has been arrested in connection with the murder of landscape architect Joanna Yeates , was known as a flamboyant English teacher at Clifton College, a co-ed public school.
(20) They derive from publications of the National Insurance Institute for Occupational Accidents (INAIL) and refer to the Italian and Umbrian situation.