Sentences with phrase «addresseda packed room»

«Tech companies are helping redo central Market Street — it used to be our Skid Row,» San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee told a packed room at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in September, drawing applause from the crowd.

But acting confident enough to get on stage and give a speech to a packed room, even when your hands are violently shaking, is necessary to learning the art of public speaking.

The official vote tally was announced before a packed room of 300 in a Tampa, Florida, office park, after an often - contentious two hour meeting that was no frills this year with no food or drink was provided for shareholders.

-- Sister Jean in front of a packed room at her NCAA Tournament press conference.

He appeared somber as he walked in to testify, and spoke before a packed room, with 44 senators in attendance.

We had a packed room for the event, which featured opening remarks by Jamie Galbraith, and a historical retrospective of their works by Jim Stanford.

A packed room of start - up workers at his San Francisco office opening last month suggested he may be having some success.

Almost one year ago, we announced the launch of Canada Learning Code to a packed room of friends, partners, and community.

Most Revd Benjamin Kwashi and Bishop Angaelos spoke to a packed room at St Paul's Hammersmith church in London for the advocacy charity Christian Solidarity Worldwide's Pursue Justice 2016 event.

«We've all been taught to laugh at the idea that some people were «born criminal,»» said Stark to a packed room at the Religious Research Association meeting last month in Houston.

I didn't think I knew many people in California — but instead, it was a packed room, shoulder to shoulder.

«It's quite a large system with walk - in refrigerators, precise ingredient delivery to our dough mixers and climate - controlled packing rooms.

Stokeswood kicked off the night and was followed by the chart topping alternative rock band, X Ambassadors who played an electric acoustic set to a packed room of enthusiastic music aficionados and Viper Room fans.

I gestured to the packed room and the eyes turned angrily on us.

Werhane told a packed room at a Park District special meeting that he had originally planned to stay to help guide the district back on track.

Brendan's space also doubles up as the packing room for orders and the computer room for emails.

For two hours, residents stepped to the podium in front of a packed room to speak out to the board, mainly addressing a proposed $ 13.4 million overhaul of the high school athletic fields that the board had approved this summer.

To a packed room, they laid out a vision for a whole environment change approach to food in London, with examples of possible activities within the Flagships ranging from extending universal free school meals across all year groups and providing breakfast clubs during weekends, to using school facilities to run holiday cooking clubs for families, and creating «healthy high streets».

Then they pack the room with their buddies — many of the voters who were yelling to table the resolutions weren't even State Committee Members — and just try to outyell their opposition by a so - called «voice vote.»

It the political equivalent of walking into a packed room, knotting a rope and then hanging yourself.

Speaking to a packed room of about 125 people at the Upper East Side's Metropolitan Republican Club Monday evening, Massey demonstrated strong speaking skills and a steady, friendly temperament that easily engaged his audience.

«Our governor will need to work with the legislature, with the federal delegation and constitutional officers, and I've had the opportunity to do that as secretary of the state,» Bysiewicz told the packed room at the Riverfront Community Center.

«We've asked the people of this district to send a message to Washington, and I hope they hear it loud and clear,» Turner said at his election party in Queens with a packed room, many of them Orthodox Jews.

What: City Council Hearing where educators, parents, and students will PACK THE ROOM to demand funding for Philly Schools!

Speaking to a packed room, the senator saluted Edwards's embrace of progressive policies like Medicare - for - All, debt - free college, universal Pre-K, and a $ 15 minimum wage.

It looks like Party Boss Carl Heastie and his planning circle finally got it down right this year, packing the room at the July 19 Marina del Rey affair.

«This was a campaign of activists and boy did we show what activists could do,» Schneiderman told the packed room of supporters.

«The judge looked like Charlene de Blasio,» Mr. Dietl told a packed room of Republican Party members and leaders on the Upper East Side during the candidate screening.

Several people in the packed room called for more cleanup.

The advantage of doing this is that it stops MPs «packing the room» at a caucus meeting and offers little special favours to the MP.

On Saturday, March 7, in a packed room at Tony's Pizzeria on Broadway, it appeared that his fulminations had come to fruition as a steady stream of well - wishers arrived to support Steve Noble, a city employee and nephew of Common Council President James Noble, who had just announced that he would challenge Gallo for the Democratic Party nomination and the mayor's office.

A fired - up Michael Mulgrew, president of the United Federation of Teachers, addressed a packed room of union members in Manhattan.

It's not really an election, it's a defining moment for our nation,» Cuomo said to a packed room of elected officials, political activists and union members at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 1049 in Holtsville.

Twenty minutes north of Buchanan, folks are packing the room at the Desmon - Fish Library in Garrison, anxious to learn more about the right choice to decommission the Indian Point nuclear power plant.

«I believe this will literally save lives,» Cuomo said to a packed room.

Medical marijuana supporters packed the room on Tuesday, with some carrying signs in support of their cause.

«This program is moving forward,» the de Blasio administration official answered, to gasps and boos from the packed room of residents.

Robert Cook - Deegan addressed a packed room for Science Policy in Transition: What to Expect in 2017 and Beyond to discuss opportunities and challenges under a new presidential administration.

On the Map In April 2016, Patel was one of about a dozen mental health luminaries seated at a long table in front of a packed room in Washington, D.C..

she asked a packed room of researchers, patients, survivors and patient advocates at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center on Monday.

These exercises were definitely hitting some tender spots for people throughout the packed room!

If you pack a room full of people who are moving, sweating, and breathing, you'll create heat.

Fewer bigger pieces are better than a jam packed room of miniature chairs.

Anna said she prefers to keep the events somewhat small and intimate so attendees have time to talk and get to know one another, but she also hosts large blow - out parties and packs the room with Catholics interested in getting in a relationship.

A packed room listening to Black Panther team and watching scenes from the record - breaking film, Apr 9, 2018.

When the credits rolled, she was the first to stand and cheer, bringing the packed room to an uproarious standing ovation — the first of many this film will receive once Black Panther hits theaters on Feb. 16.

Though we had a packed room of educators, we had a worldwide audience waiting to not only receive, but to give back — to share their knowledge on the topic.

In a packed room of nearly 2,000 participants at IEL's Community Schools National Forum in Baltimore, IEL's president Johan E. Uvin, asked participants to hold hands and close their eyes and reflect on those who had come before us and gave selflessly to the cause of creating a more perfect union.

Lucy Gettman, NSBA's Director of Federal Programs, spoke to a packed room at a congressional briefing on the business of school nutrition in Washington, on Oct. 15.

With Wake County and Charlotte - Mecklenburg school board members packing the room, Rep. Bill Brawley, the committee co-chairman, said the group isn't targeting any specific school systems but is trying to inform the debate about whether some districts are too large.