"aide" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Mr. Schumer's crime speech, which his aides billed as a major address, wove together two of his principal campaign pitches: that he has a proven record of legislation and a wealth of new ideas.
- He came to Riverside with what his aides billed in advance as a "major policy address" - a fierce attack, customized for California's voters, on illegal immigration and affirmative action programs.
- The senator's aides billed his remarks, in a speech and question-and-answer session here, as the start of a bid to portray his ticket's platform as a coherent vision rather than merely a string of disconnected proposals.
- "I'm going to ask you something hard, and I hope it's not going to upset you," Miss Gordimer said, turning what mayoral aides had billed as strictly a "photo opportunity" into an exchange of ideas.
- Mayoral aides have billed the trip as an effort to foster cultural and economic ties between New York and whatever post-apartheid regime emerges in South Africa, and to lend support to the black majority there.
- Indeed, Mr. Kerry's aides had billed his appearance as a step just shy of entering the lion's den: he had been heckled before the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and his aides described the Legion as a more conservative group.
- His aides had billed the speech as a significant policy address, but he raised many questions without providing firm answers to them.
- One senior aide billed the address, which Mr. Clinton worked on in the last two weeks of his vacation, as a "back to work, back to school, America's back" speech.
- Mr. Bush's aides billed the event as a policy discussion on breast cancer, an issue that has been of particular concern on Long Island, where activists have suggested that environmental contaminants have caused high rates of the disease.
- And so on Tuesday Mr. Bush went to Kalamazoo to give what his aides billed as a "major address" in which he stopped saying that the country was on the skids and instead took a sunny view.
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