Sentences with phrase «in packed auditoriums»

Perhaps our architects and planners need to sit in on some long lectures in packed auditoriums, to see what it's really like.

The town hall, held in a packed auditorium at the University of Toronto, featured International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland (in listening mode) along with three panelists (myself, C. D. Howe's Daniel Schwanen, and Unifor's Jerry Dias) and moderator Dan Breznitz of the Munk School.

The young doctor stood in the packed auditorium, microphone in hand, glancing from downcast face to downcast face.

Speaking in a packed auditorium in the Boys and Girls and Club on Bailey Avenue near Genesee Street, Cuomo said thousands of people will benefit if the minimum wage is increased from the current $ 8.75 an hour to $ 10.50 an hour.

In a packed auditorium, an angry crowd pushed back on the city's plan to open a homeless shelter for 132 families at 267 Rogers Ave. in Crown Heights, demanding to know how much the project will cost and whether it will help solve, as Assemblywoman Diana Richardson put it, the area's «housing crisis.»

Those who heard the talk in a packed auditorium at the University of Basel were impressed by the genomic data's high resolution — it is the largest data set of ancient DNA ever presented in a single study — even though some aren't convinced about the exact details.

by Walter Chaw I watched Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water in a packed auditorium in Telluride, CO as a torrential rainstorm pounded the roof of what is, outside of the festival, an ice - skating rink, perched there with a park in front of it, the headwaters of the San Miguel to one side and the mountains to the other and all around.

Billed as a free day of professional development for all learners, the virtual event is the largest online education conference in the world and the only one where guests don't have to fork out monies for airline tickets, expensive hotels and taxis, or fight for a front row seat in a packed auditorium to watch a sage on a stage — they simply log on.

In a packed auditorium in northeast Washington this week, Michelle A. Rhee, the chancellor of the District of Columbia schools, faced one of her toughest audiences yet in the six months since Mayor Adrian M. Fenty tapped her to fix the broken school system he now controls.

Figueroa can still recall sitting in a packed auditorium on the first day of high school and hearing the dean of students say, «Look to your left, look to your right, one of you will graduate, one of you will not.»

There are no gasps in the packed auditorium, no expressions of surprise or skepticism.

In a packed auditorium at UCLA, this past weekend at the annual Festival of Books, a panel of authors and journalists gushed about water issues.

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But one slice that is hard not to like is a guy who, even though pressed for time and seconds away from going onstage in front of a packed auditorium, stops to do something nice for someone he doesn't know — just because he can.

Suffice it then to share what a former University of Alabama running back named Ed Morgan said: If an auditorium was packed and Bryant walked in undetected through a back door, before anyone in the crowd knew why, the place's air would tighten, voices would soften and backs would straighten.

In the auditorium of a posh high school in the north suburbs of Chicago, a packed house of well - heeled moms and dads recently braved blizzard conditions to hear the lanky, affable Tough describe some of the scientific experiments leading to his belief that it is not innate ability, IQ or affluence that determines a child's ability to succeed in school and beyonIn the auditorium of a posh high school in the north suburbs of Chicago, a packed house of well - heeled moms and dads recently braved blizzard conditions to hear the lanky, affable Tough describe some of the scientific experiments leading to his belief that it is not innate ability, IQ or affluence that determines a child's ability to succeed in school and beyonin the north suburbs of Chicago, a packed house of well - heeled moms and dads recently braved blizzard conditions to hear the lanky, affable Tough describe some of the scientific experiments leading to his belief that it is not innate ability, IQ or affluence that determines a child's ability to succeed in school and beyonin school and beyond.

Hundreds of attendees, including both County Committee members and newcomers looking to get more involved in local politics, packed the auditorium and were even turned away due to space capacity at the Coney Island Hospital location.

In a packed Maxwell Auditorium at Syracuse University, James Walsh, a former congressman, and William Byrne, chairman of the board of Byrne Dairy, engaged in debate with Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner and Onondaga County Comptroller Robert AntonaccIn a packed Maxwell Auditorium at Syracuse University, James Walsh, a former congressman, and William Byrne, chairman of the board of Byrne Dairy, engaged in debate with Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner and Onondaga County Comptroller Robert Antonaccin debate with Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner and Onondaga County Comptroller Robert Antonacci.

Mr. Sarpong told the packed auditorium government will pay more attention to the revival of state owned enterprises, siting the STC [State Transport Corporation] as an example and also support young entrepreneurs in start - up businesses.

The twelve (12) track album, titled Songs in the night, was launched at a fully packed Dansoman PIWC auditorium on Sunday 6th April.

Speaking from a packed high school auditorium in the South Bronx, Mark - Viverito proposed a far - reaching overhaul of Rikers Island to bring it to the point of closing down and a plan to scrap old warrants from New Yorker's records — policies that could put her ahead of Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration on justice reform and in direct conflict with the city's powerful correction officers» union, the court system and the police department.

Much of the packed middle - school auditorium in Lake Katrine had a clear favorite in the race between Republican Congressman Chris Gibson and Democrat Sean Eldridge, as evidenced by the shouts and jeers amid candidate responses to questions posed during the debate.

Addressing a packed auditorium, the Greater Accra Youth Organizer of the governing National Democratic Congress (NCD), Godwin Tamakloe, said the incumbent government had created some jobs for the people of Ghana, and will create more given another term in office.

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As the Huygens probe prepared to plunge into the atmosphere of Titan, the scientists at the European Space Operations Center in Darmstadt, Germany, kept warning the packed auditorium full of colleagues and journalists to «expect the unexpected.»

Gunnar Ingelman: So this brings me to the 4th of July, 2012, which is a day that marks a new era in particle physics and this is not only because Francois Englert and Peter Higgs met for the first time ever in front of the packed auditorium at CERN but mainly because their ideas on mass of the fundamental particles had just been confirmed but let us start by going 50 years back in time.

On April 14 four finalists faced off at Stony Brook in front of the judges for this year's Discovery Prize, regaling the expert panel and a packed auditorium with rapid - fire speeches about breakthrough work on drug - resistant bacteria, the dynamics of subatomic particles, the origins of the universe and more.

Jin Kim Montclare, an associate professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at New York University, gives the keynote speech to a packed house at PPPL's Young Women's Conference at Princeton University's Richardson Auditorium.

Shaw, who is also a senior research fellow at the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at Columbia University, spoke to a packed auditorium of Columbia Engineering students last spring about how the development of high - speed simulations is making possible insights into human biology that could lead to better understanding of protein behavior and to improvements in drug discovery.

The most dastardly of which is Swan's (Kevin J. O'Connor) macerating death on stage in front of a packed auditorium from falling swords on a rotating chandelier.

Also noteworthy, in the category of cinema ruled by cultural concerns and actual political events, was Carlos (d. Olivier Assayas), which kept a packed auditorium of critics in their seats for over five hours with a glossy, but intelligent action film version of the 1970s exploits of a terrorist born Illich Ramirez Sanchez, but known internationally as the Jackal, also by the code name Carlos; and Des Hommes et des dieux (Of Gods and Men, Xavier Beauvois), a film, elegantly minimalist in design, based on a real - life encounter between Algerian fundamentalist Islamic terrorists and a community of ascetic Christian monks.

It was at his intro to Sion Sono's Tokyo Tribe at last year's Fantastic Fest that HitFix's Drew McWeeny put it best: «You are all my tribe,» he said to the packed auditorium, and the sentiment was apparent even before the crowd erupted in of approval and applause.

They packed a meeting last month in Senn's auditorium, booing and turning their backs as district leaders tried to present information about the academy.

I was very nervous the first time I spoke in front of an auditorium packed with kids.

In New York, thousands of parents and teachers, from the lower Hudson Valley all the way upstate to Buffalo, have packed school auditoriums and demanded changes to current education policies that enforce the new standards.

«The president - elect's role in this drama is small compared to the forces that put him where he is,» said Pritchard, an organizer of the event, to a packed auditorium in the Boston Public Library.

I thought I was doing pretty good to get there at 6 o'clock when the reading started at 6:45... but by the time I showed up, the library's auditorium was packed and there weren't any seats left in the overflow room.

In the intellectual equivalent of a pro-wrestling «smackdown,» two teams of combatants enter a plush, packed auditorium on the Upper East Side for a debate titled «Global Warming Is Not a Crisis,» staged by a group called Intelligence Squared U.S..

«We hear you,» Matt Brittin, Google's EMEA head, told a packed auditorium at Advertising Week Europe, in a presentation entitled, «Advertising that works for everyone.»

Panelists urged the packed auditorium to take a serious look at the quickly evolving cryptocurrency technology space, and honed in on the need to lower settlement costs and times.

LIVINGSTON, NJ — Pyschotherapist Lauren Muriello of the Well Being Therapy Center presented the lecture «Helping Your Teen Develop Healthy Coping Skills for Life» to a packed auditorium of parents of local students in grades 7 - 12 at Heritage Middle School on Monday as part of the «Parent Series» sponsored by the Livingston Municipal Alliance Committee.