Example sentences of "speaks for " in BNC.

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1 Telephone Management Systems customer care director Anne Nunn also speaks for many suppliers when she talks about the imbalance between the knowledge required of hotel staff and the time devoted to training them .
2 The words come easier from Porfiry who speaks for public justice than from Sonya on whom falls the main and mystic burden of creative , regenerative suffering .
3 Pound speaks for one , Eliot for another .
4 The two issues at the heart of the disagreement are those which have killed at birth any attempt in the past dozen years to address the Palestinian question : Who speaks for the Palestinians and what are the limits of the Palestinian problem ?
5 In the nineteenth century , the Goose and Burial Clubs were the forerunner of the social security system and the welfare state — the goose was for Christmas , the burial speaks for itself .
6 Sir : Timothy Garton Ash ( 'The sickly child of the cold war' , 29 September ) speaks for himself when he talks of ‘ our ideal — a larger European Community ’ .
7 Labour present is Neil Kinnock , who speaks for 63 minutes and quotes Robert Frost about miles to go and promises to keep , and about a brighter dawn when poverty , privilege , fear , disease , woe , and war shall live only in the memory of time .
8 NEIL KINNOCK yesterday declared himself fit to be Prime Minister , by claiming in an end-of-conference message that he now speaks for the British people .
9 And her behaviour could prove dangerous to the causes she speaks for . ’
10 Conran , whose own highly successful application of design to a flourishing business speaks for itself , explodes the myth that it is a mystical process , largely to do with aesthetic qualities dreamed up by artistic types with a special vision denied to most of us .
11 Her success speaks for itself .
12 That the Bentley Turbo R has withstood the challengers here speaks for its ability .
13 ‘ His record speaks for itself .
14 But while the BHRCA speaks for many companies and individuals , it does not represent everyone , or even every sector , and is sometimes at odds with the views of other bodies .
15 The smaller Oromo Liberation Front , which also favours devolution rather than secession , speaks for the people outsiders call the Galla , the second-largest of Ethiopia 's many peoples .
16 The Commercial Farmers Union , which speaks for the 4,300 white farmers , says that too much resettlement could endanger Zimbabwe 's special status as an African country that can feed itself .
17 But it is a mistake to think that Mr Saddiqi speaks for the majority of Muslims .
18 Mr Hicks , who speaks for the bereaved and injured as chairman of the Hillsborough Families ' Association , was also unhappy to see the stadium host a semi-final again while the business from 1989 remained uncompleted .
19 Money-Go-Round : One European parliament that speaks for the elderly
20 His record at Adams Park speaks for itself .
21 I think the above account speaks for itself .
22 But there is nothing here which speaks for neutrality .
23 The title of Cater 's article ( 1977 ) , ‘ Soil erosion : the problem persists despite the billions spent on it ’ , speaks for itself .
24 Like finds at an archaeological site , each book listed there is an object that speaks for itself .
25 The account mainly speaks for itself .
26 It ‘ speaks for the new concepts required to create a better world structure ’ , and works ‘ towards a spiritually-based civilisation ’ .
27 But Hans Heuer , head of the Berlin department of the German Institute of Economic Research , speaks for many when he says that would be an advantage .
28 Within the context of our discussion , this incident speaks for itself .
29 I am sure she speaks for many people in the village who are alarmed and distressed at the school conflict , of which they have probably been aware only since the parents ' petition .
30 For every letter they receive , they guess that that speaks for about 100 others who have not written .
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