Sentences with phrase «on lecterns»

And leaning on lecterns, piles of law books or otherwise should be eschewed: it looks bad and is bad — for breathing and, hence, for the voice.

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.

Have your hands out and moving or at the very least resting on the lectern lightly.

He read from a teleprompter, sometimes stumbling over words, and he kept a tight hold on the lectern.

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.

Just as Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid finished his prepared remarks at a news conference in the Capitol, a reporter's phone sitting on the lectern began to ring.

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.

There's also a central oratory space with an inscription on the lectern that reads: Take responsible risks.

Printed, bound and poised on a lectern, the work quite literally represents the performance factor of offensive rhetoric, underscoring the humanity behind the online troll and our close proximity to far - right viewpoints.

Only its expressive gestures were set to music and his monologue is punctuated by loud thuds of the hands on the lectern.

Others worry about whether they should address a judge by name or how to work the microphone on the lectern.

Not exact matches

Don't let it sit hidden on the ambo or lectern; make it visible.

But a pastor can't exactly approach the lectern on a Sunday morning, shrug her shoulders, and declare to the congregation, «You know what guys?

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.

On the pulpit or lectern in Protestant churches is a Bible, which, if the symbolism is rightly maintained, ought to be an open Bible.

Isaiah sounds safely charity chained to the lectern, but a real prophet on the loose is a terrible thing to contemplate.

On the opposite wall, at the entrance to the synagogue area, the lectern is draped in African cloth and surrounded by Ethiopian ceremonial standards.

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

I always tried to teach my juniors to «be a knife, but keep your head up», run system 1 so that you can cut through complexity, but stay aware so that when you're confronted with something that «doesn't fit» you fire up system 2 and carefully re-examine all your assumptions lest you find yourself at the lectern for a painful M&M or worse, on the stand.

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.

Pataki went further, pushing the lectern aside and placing two stools on stage as he was joined by a New Hampshire radio host who asked questions.

When Charles's parents died and Charles said a few words in the church, he wouldn't come up here to the lectern but insisted on speaking outside the sanctuary, from the floor.

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.

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.

Cuomo's a strong speaker who has given many powerful speeches standing on stage at a lectern.

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.

«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.

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.

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.

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?)

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.

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.

• Overhead and slide projectors • Giant TV / video facilities • Flip charts • Microphones • Lectern A separate terrace is available for tea and coffee breaks, with lunches and dinners available on request.

There are eight spaces to choose from, each benefitting from data projectors, screens, IP charts, video / TV sound systems, microphones, lecterns and high speed WiFi access and on - site coordination teams ensuring a smooth and seamless event.

The detail put into the trailer is awesome; check out the motivational posters around the room — a particular highlight is the «SID IS VICIOUS» poster on the speaker's lectern.

Inside this tomb, he finds a strange small pyramidal rock on a excavated lectern in the rock with a lot of puzzling hieroglyphs.

And, in fact, Schapiro's improvisatory, almost performative work at the lectern shaped a generation of art historians, as well as the artists who would sit in on his lectures at the New School.

In their first show with the gallery since 2009, artist duo Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla present a show focused on three works that represent the breadth of their collaborative multimedia practice and explore existential themes — a sculptural installation made from acrylic lecterns, dinosaur bones, and the remains of extinct species; a performance in which three vocalists whistle at a four - billion - year - old rock; and a sound work based on recordings of breath.

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.»

Here is a video of Mike Bird (Ridley College) and Walter Strickland (SEBTS VP of Kingdom Diversity) on the From the Lectern program talking about gender, immigration, refugees, and vegemite...

On the day of the competition, I did it — I stepped out from behind the lectern.