Since May, when Mr. Jiang gave what was billed as a landmark speech to party leaders, government offices have held mandatory sessions to study the "three represents."

In November 1969, Spiro Agnew, then Vice President under Richard Nixon, made a landmark speech denouncing what he saw as media bias against the Vietnam War.

In contrast, Miliband's landmark speech last week was delivered so hesitantly that even his most ardent backers were alarmed.

It was to be a landmark speech and was to have an important effect on the listening public as they were plunged into the uncertainty of war:

The wording was based on a landmark 1995 speech by Tomiichi Murayama, who was then Prime Minister, about Japanese conduct during World War II.

This began to change with a landmark speech by Danny Morrison in 1981, advocating what became known as the armalite and ballot box strategy.

He gave a landmark speech to the U.N. in September, and Colin Powell is moving the issue forward in a commendably bipartisan way.

In a landmark speech last October, Mr. Adams said Sinn Fin had a "total and absolute commitment to exclusively democratic and peaceful means of resolving differences."

This happened recently in a landmark speech by the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, who, as we all know, called for the repatriation of regional aid.

When Dr. Atkinson made his landmark speech last year calling for achievement rather than aptitude tests, many at ACT were gleeful.