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  • n  a portable loudspeaker with built-in microphone and amplifier

  • Unplug this loud-hailer, and be still, my wagging finger!" The true subject of The Moor's Last Sigh is language in all its uninhibited and unpredictable power to go reality one .
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  • Eamon Gilmore in Irish Times
    One of the group shouted abuse at him through a loud-hailer,Mr Gilmore said in a statement released this afternoon. "When he objected to being filmed by one of the group with a camcorder he was knocked to the ground and some of those...
  • Ieuan Wyn Jones in ic Wales
    Plaid leader Ieuan Wyn Jones said: "A statement is not the way to set out a legislative programme for any Assembly." "The minority Labour Assembly Government is conducting negotiations by loud-hailer rather than working in partnership."

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