Sentences with phrase «packed the auditorium for»

Hundreds packed the auditorium for the event that lasted hours.

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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.

Throngs of worshippers packed into the church auditorium early Sunday, with lines of vehicles backed up for half a mile along the streets.

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

Hundreds of attendees packed the Art Institute's Rubloff Auditorium for the Good Food Forum, which featured a keynote address by Rick Bayless and a powerful and engaging panel discussion on the future of food moderated by Peter Sagal of NPR's popular show «Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.»

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.

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?»

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.

ROMULUS, N.Y. — A packed Romulus High School auditorium was the scene for the Seneca County town's planning board meeting Monday Evening where dozens of concerned residents, and environmentalists from Seneca Lake Guardian attended, attended with hopes for answers on long - lingering question.

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.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

I've seen a packed auditorium erupt into a wild cheer for a text - to - speech voice that said: «Hello Seattle.»

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.

There's nothing worse for a rogue member of the school board than sitting on a stage with graduating high school seniors, looking into an auditorium packed with adoring friends and relatives.

For teachers, more professionalization, not less,» she told the 350 people who packed the school auditorium.

The battlegrounds are the classrooms, the kitchen table, and auditoriums packed with parents and teachers who are demanding a three - year moratorium on high - stakes testing, but will settle for the resignation of New York State (NYS) Commissioner of Education John B. King, Jr. and the head of Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Rubinfien, who is known as a protégé of Winogrand, provided context for the prolific artist's work as a slideshow of black - and - white photographs was projected overhead to a packed auditorium.

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.»

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.