Meanings of nominating speech in English

Overnight is short notice, at that, for a man to get his nominating speech ready.

Pulcifer of Alameda, who made the nominating speech in the Assembly, was received with icy calmness.

But Stetson's nominating speech was received with no more enthusiasm than was that of the shifty Pulcifer.

Davis campaigned with Obama and even appeared at the 2008 Democratic National Convention to deliver the nominating speech.

There had been a storm of applause, lasting, I think, twenty-five minutes, at the close of Conkling's nominating speech.

General Jones, of Delaware, made the nominating speech, reciting at considerable length, and with high praise, my previous public service.

I listened to Barry Goldwater's nominating speech last night and I had never heard such a boresome speech in my life.

In his nominating speech Mr. Tremaine again emphasized that this Convention was a Union, and not a partisan body, in these words:

Also, there was Mr. Watling's nominating speech to be gone over carefully, and Mr. Crewe's own speech of acceptance to be composed.

They then moved in together, as Jones recalled when he gave the nominating speech for Gore at the Democratic National Convention in 2000.

The great conventions that nominate candidates for the Presidency of the United States furnish examples on the largest scale of the nominating speech.

After a story and a joke, which put the crowd into a receptive mood, I made what was practically a nominating speech for Sherman.

The long nominating speeches of later years had not then come into fashion.

The interminable nominating speeches of recent years had not yet come into fashion.

The nominating speeches were made without enthusiasm; not a cheer greeted Senator or Assemblyman charged with the task of putting the aged Senator in nomination.

The secret was to be kept until it should be time for the nominating speeches to be made on the floor of the convention to-day.