Sentences with phrase «applause of audience members»

During the public comment portion of Wednesday's Common Council meeting, speakers — to the applause of audience members — cited numerous studies in support of the positive impacts of a living wage.

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Frank Nocerino, chairman of the Republic Airport Commission, an advisory body, read Brooks» letter aloud at a commission meeting Tuesday to applause from the around 20 audience members in attendance.

Members of the audience appeared to be split between the two supervisors» camps, with applause and standing ovations for both.

«If you work in a district like that, no matter how effective you are you come out with a scarlet A on your head,» he said, to applause from the audience, which included state legislators, Board of Regents members, school board leaders and teachers union officials.

But the protest brought a round of applause from legislators and audience members alike.

One member of the audience cheered, prompting applause from delegates.

Henderson likened the resulting improved resolution of neural sensing, compared with that of older - generation BCIs, to that of handing out applause meters to individual members of a studio audience rather than just stationing them on the ceiling, «so you can tell just how hard and how fast each person in the audience is clapping.»

Gregg Gonsalves, an audience member who had been part of the ACT UP movement in the 1980s and 1990s and is now co-director of Yale's Global Health Justice Partnership, earned a round of applause when he argued that the safety of medical products was a public policy issue that should not be dominated by lobbying from the pharmaceutical industry.

The movie also got tons of positive cheers and applause from my fellow audience members.

As the public spoke during the comment period, there was loud cheering and applause, booing, continuous snapping of fingers, and derisive remarks made by the audience toward members of the Board; those remarks were primarily dismissive of Board member Brad Noel, who several audience members referred to as «the white woman.»

The silence in the room was broken by a member of the audience exclaiming: «Let's give a big round of applause for Julia!»

to a loud applause by a number of audience members.