Sentences with phrase «asked by our audience»

The former VP was asked by an audience identified as Ikechi, to explain his rationale for returning to the PDP even after the opposition party had been ruled out of Nigeria's power equation forever, by the minister for Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.

On the BBC Question Time special, Mr Miliband was asked by audience members to accept that the previous Labour government had spent too much.

What were the most interesting questions asked by audience members, and what were the presenter (s)» responses?

Asked by an audience member to expand on plans for academies to peer - review one another, Carter said he was only sharing «early thinking» and that he would not «pretend» the plans were detailed.

However, this interesting point aside, the rest of the talk was a rather depressing affair — many of the questions asked by the audience focused on how the scientists — and the IPCC — were planning on better conveying their ideas to the public.

After his presentation — in which he sought to play down the A2J crisis («it's not really a crisis»), the Treasurer was asked by an audience member why the Society did not permit paralegals (whom the Society regulates) to offer family legal services to the large and growing number of family litigants who could not afford legal representation.

Asked by an audience member about her thoughts on dining tables and their decline, Kirstie said: «I think it's dangerous.

Not exact matches

You can follow her lead by creating forums that allow you to be approachable by team members or audiences: Ask questions of them, or invite their questions, so that your presentations involve people.

Before taking questions from the audience at Inc.'s GrowCo conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday, Chris Sacca, the billionaire angel investor, was asked one last question by Inc. editor James Ledbetter: What does he think of presidential candidate Donald Trump?

At Coachella (aka Beychella), Beyoncé starts one of her songs by asking her audience a few questions.

Hosting a Twitter chat that is focused on a topic important to your industry, such as ProfNet's #ConnectChat, allows you to associate your brand with an industry thought leader while giving your audience access to that thought leader by asking questions.

Fix: Grab the audience by asking an interesting question, making a controversial statement, or telling a short personal anecdote.

When Kasisto is recruited by a bank to build its bot, it begins the process by asking about the bank's brand personality and target audience, to adjust the bot's language and style accordingly.

So, Staples engages that audience by asking questions like, «Who is your favorite Star Wars character?»

HubSpot was part of a live landing page optimization test in which the audience was given a control page and asked to build a treatment page by incorporating changes that could positively affect conversion rates.

And when a fan in the audience — one of a dozen or so selected by the singer's team for a question - andanswer session — asked if he had any advice on how to get through a romantic break up, he demurred, flashing a bit of the humility that every religious leader knows is crucial in establishing a bond with one's flock.»

While applauding teachers for doing everything that they could, LaPierre asked audiences to imagine how things might have gone differently if the school had been policed by armed personnel.

Asked by a woman in the audience about her political prospects and those of other women in her identity group, Sanders urged going beyond identity politics: «Rebecca, I would be delighted to support you, but it is not good enough that you're a woman, not good enough that you're a Latina.

I'll be coming to Manchester to do a talk followed by an audience Q&A so that you can ask me all your questions and then there will be a book signing.

Interestingly, before I was able to ask the culture question, it was posed by the only «daddy blogger» in the audience!

«As opposed to conventional theater where the audience is asked to sympathize with an event that is taking place very far away, we like to call our event a pageant because it's a kind of ritual in the way the audience takes part in it and, we hope, is transformed by it.»

When I was contacted by someone at iseeme.com the first thing I asked was «do you have a personalized book for twins, or will our twinmom.com audience be expected to have to buy one for each kid?»

But the audience was then asked for a show of hands to establish «who shares that confidence» — and not a single hand was raised by any of the farmers present.

A relatively well - behaved but largely angry audience met yesterday with Rep. John Faso to ask questions and air their apprehensions about the Republican health care bill recently approved by the House.

Hence, audience members at the Appalachian speech probably didn't ask AG Spitzer who will fill the revamped downtowns and residential developments created by statewide programs.

At a speech hosted by the New York City Bar Association, a man in the audience asked the NYPD commissioner if he would «apologize for the discrimination and violence» at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village in 1969.

The whole process got its start during recent town supervisor Jeff Moran's first term, when he was asked by officials of the French prefecture to visit their community because it perceived a spiritual tie to Woodstock... and it was the host of a large festival (which this year hosted former Woodstock resident Bob Dylan as a headliner for an audience of 300,000 or so Europeans).

I was reminded that they positively encouraged audience participation, and she asked me to put in two questions, one via email by Tuesday afternoon and the other on the night.

But unlike his Republican colleagues in the region, who are hearing demands from constituents for face time to ask tough questions, Tonko was greeted by a friendly audience with questions about how he plans to navigate a Washington dominated by the GOP.

KINGSTON, N.Y. >> A relatively well - behaved but largely angry audience of about 100 people met Monday with U.S. Rep. John Faso to ask questions and air their apprehensions about the Republican health care bill recently approved by the House.

On the way to her car after the rally, Warren was asked how it felt to be met by such friendly audiences on the campaign trail.

On another issue that sparked the audience's vocal response, Menin was asked by Lappin why she «chose to become a Republican during George W. Bush's term.»

The audience were asked to applaud at the start and end of the programmes, but are not allowed to respond to leaders» answers, with questions being put to the leaders by the presenter.

The event included a performance by Alain Nu, an illusionist, about whom the Washington Post wrote, will leave «audiences asking, «How'd he do that?»

Turn your presentation into an opportunity for engagement by leaving lots of time for questions and discussion, and by asking questions of your audience.

Demonstrating an example of visual thinking during her presentation at AAAS, she asked audience members to close their eyes and count the number of windows in their homes, a task most indicated they accomplished by mentally «walking through» the rooms of their houses.

«I used to absolutely hate [public speaking]» she says, but having found herself volunteered to give a careers talk at Surrey University, she was «really chuffed» to be asked by a couple of sixth - form teachers in the audience to give her talk again.

At an international conservation biology conference, male scientists asked on average 1.8 questions for every one question posed by a female scientist, the first study reports, even though the audiences of the 2015 meeting sessions that the researchers analyzed ranged from 40 % to 75 % female.

At a meeting in Western Canada between the directors of the NSERC and some 170 researchers and graduate students, a young physicist asked members of the audience to give their opinion about collaborative grants by a show of hands.

Following my presentation, I was approached by ESPN executives who had been in the audience during my sales pitch, and I was asked to fly to New York for an intense round of interviews — and the rest is history!

Now you can grow your audience with ease by asking readers or users to follow you on social media.

Throughout the event, there will be breaks for food, drinks and networking, and after all the finalists have pitched to the room, and been asked questions by attendees & experts, the audience will decide who wins by public vote.

The film was a questionable piece to begin with (audiences were asked to sympathize with a German spy who cheerfully sent young British pilots to their deaths), but was made incomprehensible by Paramount's ruthless editing.

But we got to a point when audience members started asking, «Why is Django [played by Jamie Foxx] being so mean to all the other slaves?»

Part social realist, part fabulist, Sebastián Lelio makes films that often ask audiences to rethink their biases and do better by the victimized and ostracized.

In one scene, Pope Francis observes a river, and Wenders» ask that the audience likewise observe the pope sounds like something pulled out of a truly weird nature documentary by Werner Herzog.

But for genre fans, it ticks every box and gives the target audience everything they ask for by the bucket load.

When your last series of films was as critically acclaimed and beloved by audiences as Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy from the start of the last decade, there is very litle room for misstep in returning to the tale — just ask George Lucas.

After the screening, which was attended by environmentally minded filmmakers Louie Psihoyos («The Cove») and Jeff Orlowski («Chasing Ice»), Gore was asked during an audience Q&A about his recent meeting with Trump and daughter Ivanka.

The film breaks faith with its audience by asking us to care about two profoundly antipathetic characters spouting pseudo-poetic banalities.