Sentences with phrase «of lecterns»

A lot of lecterns are fitted with plenty of drawers and cupboards, but a quick check of the one in our main science theatre last week revealed a jumble of forgotten handouts from a conference, an expensive but chalky calculator, several well chewed pens, some overhead projection transparencies with print so minute that I took one and frightened my students with it, a pair of prescription spectacles (abandoned, perhaps, because their owner couldn't read the words on the screen?)

You may feel safer standing behind a big furniture piece, but gripping the top of the lectern and making low hidden gestures won't do you any good.

For a distinctive option to promote your brand, try incorporating your restaurant's name or logo on the front panel of the lectern.

The fabrication of the lectern contributes the most to its appearance and durability.

Comprised of a lectern bearing a McMaster - Carr, the most comprehensive hardware catalogue in circulation, this work literalizes Sachs's devotion to process and protocol, which goes beyond mere mental discipline and seemingly enters the realm of arousal.

Joanne said: «It is a real pleasure to be working with aspiring lawyers at this stage of their training — being on the other side of the lectern is a challenge, but one that I am thoroughly enjoying.»

Four of us entered the competition and I managed to win the third - place ribbon without venturing an inch beyond the safety of the lectern.

Not exact matches

Because the frail Graham no longer has the strength to speak behind a lectern, his enduring message of salvation through Jesus Christ came in the form of «The Cross,» a 30 - minute DVD that made its debut at the celebration.

Electric lights are dimmed, and the primary light in the building comes from hundreds of candles on the high altar and the chancel rail, around the lectern and pulpit.

Nor is it that television has replaced religion «s information - giving role, though it is true, as Tawney says, that in the Geneva of Calvin «s day, the pulpit was both lectern and press, while today the church «s monopoly on information has been effectively usurped by the mass media.

Efforts to build dialogue into the actual delivery have taken the forms of forums, dialogue between pulpit and lectern, press conference sermons, planned interruptions from the congregation, and other variations doubtless already familiar to the reader.

A procession takes place, with the priest bearing the Gospel Book to a lectern at the center of the church.

Father Luther's careful handwriting, small and precise, gives both his own personal thoughts and the notes he made to remind him what he wanted to say in his lectures when he had the great tome in front of him on a lectern, and the young men, not so very much younger than he, looking up expectantly from the benches.

Whether from behind the stove or behind the lectern, Monte has dedicated himself to the creation of fine foods for over two decades.

Beyond the Host Stand — Special Use Lecterns Lecterns can also be essential tools in other areas of your restaurant for both your staff and your customers: Valet Stands — An attractive, weatherproof lectern provides a secure point of contact for arriving customers.

For outdoor patio or other dining areas, polyurethane lecterns offer the practicality of a weatherproof material available in a virtually limitless range of colors.

They sit at long picnic tables to listen to the players who made me famous grip a lectern and confront their memories of 2003.

So here stood Belichick last weekend at the same lectern where two days earlier he had denied any prior knowledge of deflated footballs.

Standing at a lectern at the University of Colorado's Folsom Field last Friday under skies best described as UCLA - blue, first - year Pac - 10 commissioner Larry Scott welcomed the Buffs to his conference by reading from Walt Whitman's Song of the Redwood Tree.

Carvalho does not share that trait, and may fit closer to the Bill Bratton mold of top City Hall officials — courting the press, exceedingly comfortable at a lectern, and saying what he wants to say when he wants to say it.

Earlier today, that telling lectern had appeared outside the door of Downing Street again.

When Kinnock chose to take on his critics, he stood at the lectern at Labour conference, in the full glare of the television lights, and faced them down.

In this view from the camera riser, looking away from the lectern on the boardwalk where Mayor de Blasio spoke, the «free speech zone» is faintly visible deep in the center of the picture and close to the white trucks on Shore Front Parkway.

«Let me tell you about some deals I did with Lenny,» Zucker, 86, told the hundreds of people in attendance from the lectern.

10:03 - Despite all the new confidence and everything, Mr Brown still appears kind of short behind his lectern.

Prof. Umaru A. Pate, Kaigamma Adamawa, and professor of Mass Communication at Bayero University, Kano, was at the lectern.

Snappers have to take endless pictures of be-suited politicians leaning on a lectern, so shooting 22 journalists and MPs kicking lumps out of each other draws photographers like moths to a flame.

Mr. Massey and Mr. Faulkner delivered speeches from a lectern and took questions from the audience of several dozen Republicans.

«First of all I just want to say, Scott, that was the worst Chris Christie impersonation I have ever seen,» said Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer, during his turn at the lectern, a minute later.

At the lectern, Mr. de Blasio told the church's black congregation about the launch of his universal pre-kindergarten plan and signing of a new executive order mandating higher wages at city - subsidized companies — peppering his speech with religious references, criticisms of the stop - and - frisk policing policy and expressions of sympathy for President Barack Obama and his struggles with the Republican - dominated Congress.

Ed Balls» other half is becoming an imposing figure on the landscape of the left - even if she did use a lectern for her conference speech in Manchester this morning.

Despite tough criticism and insults from the president and his allies — a top African - American Trump surrogate, former Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke, characterized Wilson as «a buffoon» while White House chief of staff John Kelly teed off on her from a White House lectern — the 74 - year - old Democrat hasn't flinched, firing back with caustic responses honed by years of full - contact Miami politics.

Standing at a lectern before reporters Thursday, Carlos Acevedo, the head of Puerto Rico's emergency management agency, made an admission.

«Our work has resulted in a plan that addresses the magnitude of our city's affordability crisis by encouraging smart, sustainable affordable housing production,» said Melissa Mark - Viverito, the Council speaker, standing at a lectern in the rotunda of City Hall on Monday to announce the details of the deal.

As fans of Borgen will know, Denmark's election TV debates feature as many as eight candidates standing at a lectern, and it works.

Another Democrat, Representative Joseph Crowley of New York, began shouting from the lectern about the drawbacks of the bill.

Warren took to the lectern Monday evening in front of a room of supporters at Brue Coffee House on Genesee Street.

When Tucker Reed finally stepped up to the lectern inside the new BAM Fisher Building on a Thursday morning at the end of July, the crowd could barely handle any more news about just how stupendous Downtown Brooklyn was, is and will be.

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — Josh Fox walked up to Sen. Bernie Sanders's lectern and plunked it down — a glass jug of brown water.

There's lecturing, of course: standing in front of the class talking and writing on the board with chalk or dry - erase markers, or at a lectern watching your PowerPoint slides flicker by.

The village church where Strickland is buried has images of turkeys depicted in stained - glass windows, a carved lectern and even stone sculptures on the walls.

Speaker of the House of Representatives Paul Ryan (R — WI, at lectern) and Senator Patty Murray (D — WA, second from right) thanked members of the commission on 7 September for their report.

But best of all, there is no fixed lectern or bench, so the speaker is very visible and can interact easily with the audience if she wants to.

OXFORD, U.K. — Behind locked doors in one of the oldest libraries in Europe, two dozen scholars mill around a conference table where rare medieval manuscripts perch on lecterns, illuminated by natural light streaming in from floor - to - ceiling windows.

A few of the graduates of Santa Monica College turn their backs in protest as Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, at lectern, delivers a commencement address on June 14.

Two months before his death, Mayor Joe Serna stood behind a thin wooden lectern at Thomas Jefferson Elementary School here, and told the crowd gathered that the transformation of Sacramento's schools was something rare and precious.

Standing at the lectern of Arizona State University's SkySong conference center in April, investment banker Michael Moe exuded confidence as he kicked off his second annual confab of education startup companies and venture capitalists.

However, the comparative difficulty of producing video lectures gives online teachers an opportunity that onsite teachers haven't fully realized: To step away from the lectern and bring active learning into their teaching in a richer and more meaningful way.

Question 2 supporters including Dawn Foye (at lectern) state Rep. Alice Peisch, state Sen. Michael Rodrigues, and Gov. Charlie Baker, rallied behind the Boys and Girl's Club building on Warren Street on the eve of last Tuesday's election.

But to avoid preaching a half - truth by pounding the lectern for self - publishing, you must add the following: no amount of talent, mastery of craft or anything else is going make much difference for self - publishers who are not skillful at self - marketing.