Sentences with phrase «packed auditorium»

Several hundred people packed an auditorium at Port Chester Middle School last night in a continuation of the wave of criticism and concern about the state's new Common Core learning standards and the pace at which they've been implemented.

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

Most of the 1,300 people who packed the auditorium of the Mekeel Christian Academy on Thursday morning fit one of two categories: supporters (including many evangelical Christians) who have been with him through most of the primary, or people (including some Democrats) who appreciated the novelty of meeting a presidential candidate and were simply curious to hear him out.

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..

Close to 100 people packed the auditorium to hear City Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley (D - Middle Village), state Assembly members Rory Lancman (D - Fresh Meadows) and Grace Meng (D - Flushing) and Bayside allergist Dr. Robert Mittman.

Hundreds packed the auditorium for the event that lasted hours.

He counts on a carryover of the remarkable enthusiasm the area has demonstrated for major league baseball and a continuation of the basketball interest shown by packed auditoriums at recent Big Seven and NCAA college tournaments.

Nearly 100 Capital District voters packed the auditorium at the Guilderland Public Library last Tuesday night for a panel discussion titled «Would New York State Benefit from a Constitutional Convention?»

There were no seats available as a few hundred citizens packed the auditorium to witness the new faces being sworn in to office.

Attendees packed the auditorium at the Crandall Public Library to hear from a panel of experts on the increasing prevalence of Lyme disease in New York.

Residents packed the auditorium of P.S. 69 on Sunday to vent frustration over the morning takeoffs and landings waking them up weekend mornings — sometimes as early as 5 a.m., according to State Sen. Jose Peralta.

On Thursday, April 21, students, educators, administrators, parents and local dignitaries will pack the auditorium at Mater Academy Charter School for an assembly as the school is presented with a 2011 Inspiration Award from the College Board and a check for $ 25,000 for being one of the three most inspiring secondary schools in America.

Close to 100 people packed the auditorium to hear City Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley (D - Middle Village), state Assembly members Rory Lancman (D - Fresh Meadows) and Grace Meng -LSB-...]

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.

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.

I would love to have 8 hours with you and a packed auditorium of interested honest atheist people who actually care for truth.

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

Many of the things she said to a packed auditorium that evening were off the theological charts for most of us, including me.

And so here, now, I'll stand up and say it, the way I wish someone had said it to me fifteen years ago when I was sitting in that packed auditorium with my heart racing, wrists aching, eyes stinging, drowning and silenced by the imposition of shame masquerading as ashes of repentance:

Those of you who can come home, please do but more importantly, let your money do the work for you and I promise I will not let you down,» he added to a standing ovation from the packed auditorium at the Boleyn Banqueting Suite.

In a sweeping presentation to a packed auditorium, Congressman Adriano Espaillat reiterated support for «truly affordable housing» in Inwood...

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.

The debate, sponsored by WAMC Northeast Public radio, was held before a packed auditorium at The Linda in Albany and broadcast live on WNYT and C - Span.

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.

Before a packed auditorium at George Washington High School this past Sun., Mar. 22nd, Councilmember Ydanis Rodríguez outlined his vision for Northern Manhattan, focusing specifically on economic development, housing and education.

Sini made an explicit break with the past, telling the many Suffolk prosecutors in the packed auditorium at Suffolk County Community College in Brentwood that they are «owed an apology» for the stain left on the office's reputation by his predecessor, Thomas Spota, who resigned after being indicted in October on federal charges of obstructing justice and witness tampering.

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.

Free SHS is coming from September 2017,» he added, to a rapturous response from the packed auditorium.

Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks to a packed auditorium inside the Eggertsville Youth and Community Center on Tuesday.

We got every religion, every ethnic group, every political stripe,» the Archbishop of New York told the packed auditorium at El Museo del Barrio.

«I refuse to sign off on this budget until we get all our funding for students back,» said Councilmember Rodriguez to the packed auditorium.

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.»

Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh on Wednesday gave an address to a packed auditorium at Fowler High School's PSLA, providing several updates on ongoing economic development initiatives as part of a «state of the city» speech.

Addressing the packed auditorium at Cardinal Hayes High School on the Grand Concourse, Mr. Diaz tore into the mayor's handling of last summer's Legionnaire's disease outbreak, as well as education, housing and homelessness.

«It's not Albany dictated; it's dictated by the locality,» Cuomo said before a packed auditorium at the annual award ceremony, which has brought attention to the awards, and to the governor's role in facilitating them.

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.

Incumbent Helen Rosenthal sat down with Democratic challengers Mel Wymore and Cary Goodman, alongside independent candidate William Raudenbush, in front of a packed auditorium at JCC Manhattan at 334 Amsterdam Ave.

Mayor Brown says city residents are truly concerned about the new zoning code and that's why they packed the auditorium at ECC City last night.

«We will be looking for your input to shape this plan,» he told the packed auditorium at the announcement.

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.

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.»

Appearing in front of a packed auditorium at CERN the spokespersons of the experiments ATLAS and CMS announced the observation of a new fundamental particles in proton - proton collisions at the large hadron collider which had properties consistent with the long sought - after Higgs particle, and you can imagine that the whole auditorium exploded in applause.

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.

«Creating an AIDS - free generation has never been a policy priority for the United States government until today because this goal would have been unimaginable just a few years ago,» Clinton told a packed auditorium at the U.S. National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

He revealed his new theory to a packed auditorium at a conference in Dublin, Ireland on Wednesday.

But before a packed auditorium, Astro Teller, the Google scientist known as the «Captain of Moonshots,» talked about some of the biggest flops from Google X, the part of the company that chases highly experimental and futuristic products and services.

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.