Sentences with phrase «olympic opening ceremonies»

An alternative to watching the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Games would be to show students clips of past Olympic Opening Ceremonies.

The Olympic Opening Ceremonies haven't even happened yet, and we're already being bombarded with articles about Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski supposedly being too blunt and too mean.

And as for the Russian version of Facebook, VK, well... it's about as responsive as the fifth ring in the Olympic opening ceremonies.

The Sochi Olympic Opening Ceremonies had an interesting problem or design flaw.

Now imagine all those people connected to and playing against one another at the same time in the same place, like at the Olympic opening ceremonies.

It's an American penned story (Max Brooks, of the award winning novel World War Z) and helmed by China's greatest director, Yimou Zhang (the mind behind the spectacle of the 2008 Olympic Opening Ceremony).

Rowin Atkins, Mr. Bean, had an entertaining appearance at the Olympic Opening Ceremony.

The new health secretary is reported to have demanded that the NHS section of the Olympic opening ceremony was removed from Danny Boyle's production.

David Cameron has appealed for more investment in Britain's creative industries following the Olympic opening ceremony.

When Danny Boyle disclosed his plans for the Olympic opening ceremony to the Government, Hunt thought that the ebullient NHS sequence was unnecessary.

It is a beautiful piece of verse, cunningly placed during an action sequence, which is to the British secret service what the Olympic Opening Ceremony was to British self - identity.

But nine years later it feels as if Aiden Burley's description of the Olympic opening ceremony as «multicultural crap» summarises the Tories» views of modern Britain better than Cameron's upbeat message in opposition.

Theirs is a more upbeat, multicultural, open sense of who they are, of the sort expressed in Danny Boyle's Olympic Opening Ceremony.

In July, with a minimum of fuss during the Olympic Opening Ceremony, the UK cut its aid budget to Rwanda.

The Olympic opening ceremony received rave reviews from almost everywhere and everyone - not just in Britain but around the world, too.

Labour has used Aidan Burley's tweet against the Olympic opening ceremony to promote a fund dedicated the throwing the MP out of parliament.

The prime minister called for more money to be pumped into the UK's creative industries after an audience of over one billion watched the Olympic opening ceremony on Friday night.

She also took part in the London 2012 Olympic opening ceremony.

After students have watched a clip of an Olympic Opening Ceremony, have them use that inspiration to complete the following activities with their corresponding worksheets:

If you want to be escorted around like Queen Elizabeth II during the 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony, then you need either a Corgi, James Bond, or both.

Climate change is now recognized as such a threat to humanity that events as big as the Olympic opening ceremony in Rio de Janeiro called attention to the subject.

Not exact matches

Olympic Athletes from Russia take part in the Parade of Nations at the opening ceremony of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium.

The opening ceremony for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro last Friday only got about 26 million viewers, down about 35 % from the 2012 games in London.

The Olympic rings is seen in Hoenggye town, near the venue for the Opening and Closing ceremony ahead of PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang - gun, South Korea.

The 2016 Summer Olympics kick off Friday night in Rio de Janeiro with an opening ceremony that is likely to be one of the most - watched TV events of the year, if previous Olympic openings are any guide.

«Olympic fans can be transported to iconic venues such as Maracana Stadium for an unprecedented view of the Opening Ceremony, and Copacabana Beach for an immersive beach volleyball experience in the sport's ultimate setting.»

Before the games began, he voiced his concern over the decision of Vice President Mike Pence leading the Team USA Olympic delegation, turning down a meeting with Pence ahead of the opening ceremony.

Chinese entrepreneur and former Olympian Li Ning pulled the most visible ambush of all at the 2008 opening ceremonies, where he lit the Olympic torch decked out head - to - toe in his own athletic clothing brand — while Adidas execs helplessly fumed from the VIP seats.

But the notion that an Olympic city is going to hell in a handbasket in the weeks before the Games — that this time, for sure, all will be chaos — is almost as predictable as the script for the opening ceremony.

Lee said the cold weather has led some people to give up their tickets to the opening ceremony, which will take place at the open - air Olympic stadium on Friday.

Spectators and athletes from all over the world watch the opening ceremony of the XIIIth Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid.STAFF AFP / Getty Images

Read how the high - tech precision screen company partnered with Ralph Lauren and U.S. manufacturers to produce a cutting - edge down parka to be worn by U.S. Olympic athletes during the opening ceremonies of the 2018 Winter Olympics.

NBC has won an unprecedented 95 Emmy Awards for its Olympics coverage, as well as a prestigious Peabody Award for its presentation of the Beijing Opening Ceremony in 2008, which USA Today said was «the best overall Olympic experience ever provided by a U.S. network.»

Today the reopened monastery is renowned for its outstanding choirs (one sang the national anthem at the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi), entrepreneurial spirit, and close relations with President Putin.

It was the beginning of the Olympic Games, so I was still basking in the idealistic glow of the opening ceremonies, impressed by the commitment and talent of the most gifted competitors in the world, and awed by the staggering feats of athleticism that appeared on my TV screen each night.

I'll start: My opinion is that President Bush was wrong to attend the opening ceremonies for the Olympic Games in China because his absence would have shown unity with other world leaders who are fed up with China's continued human rights abuses.

Finish the following sentence: President Bush was right / wrong to attend the opening ceremonies for the Olympic Games in China because

At the opening ceremony, Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee president Peter V. Ueberroth hailed the Olympic athletes, a genial collection of javelin chuckers and pugilists, as «the best hope for the future of mankind.»

In the opening ceremony, when Rafer Johnson took the Olympic flame on the long ascent to the lofty cauldron, where it burned for 16 days, he also uplifted the tens of thousands in the L.A. Memorial Coliseum

Though not quite as much of a cultural institution as their Olympic counterparts, the World Cup's opening ceremonies have been quietly expanding in size, importance and grandiosity over the years.

The U.S. women «sice hockey players didn't cross paths with the Iranians after that first day, but before all the athletes from all the nations marched into Olympic Stadiumfor the opening ceremonies, Shemshaki, emboldened by his meeting with Kauth, made his way over to Bode Miller and said hello.

In 2011 Jon was a member of the relay team which broke the world record and was named as Team GB's Opening Ceremony Flagbearer for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games.

The 2018 Winter Olympic games in PyeongChang, South Korea, kick off Thursday, Feb. 8 — a day before the Opening Ceremony on Friday, Feb. 9 — and run through Sunday, Feb. 25, the day of the Closing Ceremony.

Rep. Steve Israel and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand were quick to seize on the growing indignation over the US Olympic team's made in China uniforms, designed by Ralph Lauren to be worn during the opening ceremony.

A four - time Olympic luger from a suburb of Utica, Erin Hamlin, will carry the American flag during the Olympics Opening Ceremony in PyeongChang.

The couple will then depart Seoul, Republic of Korea on Air Force Two en route to PyeongChang, Republic of Korea, where they will attend the 2018 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony this evening.

He admitted he had a tear in his eye at the opening ceremony and praised the Olympic cyclists, in particular.

Ghanaian winter sports olympic team at the opening ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics.

«The enormous Olympic bell, the biggest harmonically - tuned bell in the world made specially for the opening ceremony, is designed to dictate that frequency right at the start.»

He added: «The Olympic Stadium is strategically placed on the earth - energy grid to tap into the immense London and British power centres and this is why Glastonbury Tor, one of the most significant earth - vortex points in the UK, is a centrepiece of the opening ceremony.