21.   Ghosn, who was appointed to his new position during a board meeting Friday, gave a brief speech in Japanese that was an effort to assuage some fears.

22.   Graves and Bush are expected to make brief speeches.

23.   He did not discuss the new emergency powers in his brief speech.

24.   Here in Ashland, hundreds of people lined the track waiting for his arrival and cheered loudly throughout his brief speech.

25.   His brief speech drew little applause, and afterwards, many workers said they were either Democrats or would not be voting.

26.   His brief speech Tuesday evening came after a day of trauma that seems destined to define his presidency.

27.   His vehicle, he decided, would be a brief televised speech.

28.   In a brief speech, Taylor told the Giants what many were saying in the newspapers.

29.   In a brief speech, she acknowledged the back-room negotiations with former rivals that brought her to power this time.

30.   In a brief speech, he called on Baptists to respect the integrity of Judaism as a faith.