Sentences with phrase «of vuvuzelas»

I'm going to ask the Minister of Food and Agriculture to donate an agricultural tractor to your school,» the president announced, as loud cheers and applause from the crowd, punctuated with the blowing of vuvuzelas, trailed the assurance.

To balance the development gap, that is why we are opening universities in the north; that is why we are building more secondary schools in the north; that is why we are extending electricity to all places in the north, so that wherever you stay you can enjoy the same facilities as a Ghanaian,» he stated amid cheers from party supporters and deafening honking of vuvuzelas from all angles as he unleashed venom on the country's biggest opposition party.

The inclusion of vuvuzela comes after months of exclusion for the annoying noisemaker; since the July Cup final, the horns have been banned by many baseball, football and soccer teams, and recently FIBA announced that they would not be permitted at the upcoming world basketball championships in Turkey.

Not exact matches

Feel free to toot your own vuvuzela by linking to your favorite post of the week (or month) from YOUR blog!

To the Oxford Dictionary of English, the word vuvuzela.

There's not much I agree with Sepp Blatter on, but the vuvuzela is a distinctly local feature, and I'm pleased of it.

Other words that were being considered for Word of the Year included «gleek,» «crowdsourcing,» «vuvuzela,» and «retweet.»

Using computer analyses, researchers suggest that airflow through the bony tube would have generated sound with a frequency somewhere between 248 and 746 cycles per second — a range that encompasses the droning tone of the South African vuvuzela, which became notorious during soccer matches held during the 2010 World Cup.

The first two chapters of this macho mood piece intrigued me, but after the third or fourth variation on the same theme, it started feeling ponderous: too slow, too one - note, and leaden where it wanted to be weighty, the electric guitars on the soundtrack too loud and monotone too, like vuvuzelas at the World Cup.

Blowing a vuvuzela heralding the victory of imagination and ingenuity.

It faced tough competition from concepts for Christmas trees, toilet - paper holders, and lamps, but Megan Bernstein's design for big, colorful earrings beat them all out, becoming the winner of WoZela's vuvuzela recycling competition.The contest, sponsored by two South African advertising firms, drew more than 100 entries suggesting ways to reuse or recycle the plastic horns that blared throughout this year's World Cup matches.