The duvet shaker was giving someone inside her state-of-the-nation address.

Communist Party leaders have worked together for several months on the speech, which is equivalent to a state-of-the-nation address.

But the protests soon collapsed and party leaders expressed satisfaction -after Medvedev promised election law reforms in his state-of-the-nation address, which critics called window dressing.

Now we have "The Man in My Basement," a book that clearly aspires to be both literary fiction and a state-of-the-nation address.

President Miguel de la Madrid was delivering his final state-of-the-nation address.

Don't cavil at his words...he didn't say that, it was a state-of-the-nation address to the State Duma.

Medvedev, who called for more privatisations in his state-of-the-nation address earlier this month, is likely to approve of the measure.

The movie is a cool but compassionate state-of-the-nation address.

Such a vision was presented only slightly covertly in the Russian President's recent state-of-the-nation address.

His remarks came in a state-of-the-nation address on the first day of a Parliamentary session that is set to hand him a seventh Presidential term next week.