Sentences with phrase «amid applause»
The following spring, she attended a ceremony where seniors at YES Prep Southeast, the oldest of seven YES Prep campuses in Houston, signed their matriculation letters to college on a stage in front of hundreds of family members amid applause and tears.
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The Democratic National Convention made history Tuesday evening: Amid applause, shouts, cheers and in some cases tears, the delegates on the floor of the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia nominated Hillary Clinton for president of the United States.
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Amid a cacaphony of applause, cheers, booming drums and blatting bugles, the procession made its way through the narrow alleys of the Christian Quarter.
Apart from the game itself the two additional highlights of the evening for me were the roll call of our players and managers who are no longer with us displayed on the screens as a backdrop to the band playing Abide With Me amid rapturous applause from the fans, and the ending with the lights being turned off on the big screen by the player in the number 6 West Ham shirt.
«We will be putting together an army not just to win an election in November but to turn this state around in January,» he continued amid rising applause.
Amid all the applause for 12 Years a Slave there's been only one seriously dissenting voice, that of the Black American critic Armond White.
Although most of the criticism of the new law — amid the rapturous applause — was related to the exclusion of copyrighted content, the European Association of Craft, Small and Medium - sized Enterprises, UEAPME, said the new rule will «discourage SMEs» online trade.»
On March 29, 1982, amid thunderous applause, Katherine Hepburn stepped onto the stage at the Academy Awards to receive the Best Actress Oscar for her performance in On Golden Pond.