allocution
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Durst declined to give an allocution for the crime.
From Fox News ● Oct. 14, 2021
But at his Friday sentencing hearing for Floyd’s murder, Chauvin’s allocution lasted just 36 seconds.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 26, 2021
He offered a law professor’s allocution on the subject of foreign-born citizens’ eligibility for the American presidency.
From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2016
Heinrich Himmler himself, the Reichsfuehrer of the SS, expressed this notion in an allocution set out in detail.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2015
Pius IX protested in an allocution, reproving those acts of rebellion accomplished against the power and sovereignty of the Holy See.
From The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe by Francis A. (Francis Aloysius) Cunningham
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