I'm sorry but a single speech by this quite remarkable man is not going to herald a new era of social cohesion any time soon.

Why not put the issue to rest once and for all with a single, dramatic, lay-it-all-out speech?

But until then, during nearly four years in office, he did not deliver a single speech on foster care.

"But more than a single speech is required to restore the public's trust in our government."

This was hardly a surprise, given that he hated public speaking and did not make a single formal speech in his entire campaign.

In a single speech in Chicago she sold an estimated five million dollars' worth of bonds.

Briggs was a popular lecturer, earning $100 for a single speech.

The whole future of these lives might be determined by one single speech.

Lawmakers could not remember a single major speech or article in his two and a half years in Parliament.

And at Cathy's deathbed, he manages to move from one extreme to the other in a single speech.