Sentences with phrase «packed the auditorium of»

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.»

Suffice it then to share what a former University of Alabama running back named Ed Morgan said: If an auditorium was packed and Bryant walked in undetected through a back door, before anyone in the crowd knew why, the place's air would tighten, voices would soften and backs would straighten.

Martinic was among the 1,600 to 2,000 people who packed Buffalo Grove High School's auditorium last week to sample pizzas donated by 12 local restaurants during the 2nd annual «Pizza Challenge» sponsored by the Buffalo Grove Chamber of Commerce.

In the auditorium of a posh high school in the north suburbs of Chicago, a packed house of well - heeled moms and dads recently braved blizzard conditions to hear the lanky, affable Tough describe some of the scientific experiments leading to his belief that it is not innate ability, IQ or affluence that determines a child's ability to succeed in school and beyond.

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.

That may not sound terribly appealing, but the hall was packed with all those that could find their way to the auditorium through the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre's maze of corridors.

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.

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.

In a packed Maxwell Auditorium at Syracuse University, James Walsh, a former congressman, and William Byrne, chairman of the board of Byrne Dairy, engaged in debate with Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner and Onondaga County Comptroller Robert Antonacci.

McCaffrey, of Lindenhurst, noted that the legislative auditorium «is always jam packed and may not be the best of venues,» adding, «I'll probably have more problems with what he has to say.»

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.

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

Speaking from a packed high school auditorium in the South Bronx, Mark - Viverito proposed a far - reaching overhaul of Rikers Island to bring it to the point of closing down and a plan to scrap old warrants from New Yorker's records — policies that could put her ahead of Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration on justice reform and in direct conflict with the city's powerful correction officers» union, the court system and the police department.

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.

Much of the packed middle - school auditorium in Lake Katrine had a clear favorite in the race between Republican Congressman Chris Gibson and Democrat Sean Eldridge, as evidenced by the shouts and jeers amid candidate responses to questions posed during the debate.

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.

Uptown residents and supporters packed the cavernous Lamport Auditorium at YeshivaUniversity this past Sun., Apr. 21st, to hear New York City Councilmember Ydanis Rodríguez, who represents WashingtonHeights and Inwood, deliver his «State of Northern Manhattan» address.

In Bewerbung Live Dabei, a live interview was conducted on stage in front of an auditorium packed with over 400 people.

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.»

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.

«What we see is that there a region between 120 and 160 GeV (giga - electron volts) where there is an excess,» CDF physicist Viviana Cavaliere of the University of Illinois at Urbana — Champaign explained to a packed Fermilab auditorium April 6.

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.

Jin Kim Montclare, an associate professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at New York University, gives the keynote speech to a packed house at PPPL's Young Women's Conference at Princeton University's Richardson Auditorium.

The 2011 Lasker Lecture, «Induction of Pluripotency by Defined Factors,» was delivered by Shinya Yamanaka to a packed auditorium at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine on October 24, 2011.

The most dastardly of which is Swan's (Kevin J. O'Connor) macerating death on stage in front of a packed auditorium from falling swords on a rotating chandelier.

Tim Robinson: Connemara, a Reel Art documentary directed by Pat Collins, was eagerly anticipated and played to a packed auditorium as part of the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival.

It was at his intro to Sion Sono's Tokyo Tribe at last year's Fantastic Fest that HitFix's Drew McWeeny put it best: «You are all my tribe,» he said to the packed auditorium, and the sentiment was apparent even before the crowd erupted in of approval and applause.

by Walter Chaw I watched Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water in a packed auditorium in Telluride, CO as a torrential rainstorm pounded the roof of what is, outside of the festival, an ice - skating rink, perched there with a park in front of it, the headwaters of the San Miguel to one side and the mountains to the other and all around.

I was very nervous the first time I spoke in front of an auditorium packed with kids.

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.

In a packed auditorium in northeast Washington this week, Michelle A. Rhee, the chancellor of the District of Columbia schools, faced one of her toughest audiences yet in the six months since Mayor Adrian M. Fenty tapped her to fix the broken school system he now controls.

Figueroa can still recall sitting in a packed auditorium on the first day of high school and hearing the dean of students say, «Look to your left, look to your right, one of you will graduate, one of you will not.»

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.

In New York, thousands of parents and teachers, from the lower Hudson Valley all the way upstate to Buffalo, have packed school auditoriums and demanded changes to current education policies that enforce the new standards.

«The president - elect's role in this drama is small compared to the forces that put him where he is,» said Pritchard, an organizer of the event, to a packed auditorium in the Boston Public Library.

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.

Duncan asked Detroiters packed into the auditorium of the Charles H. Wright Academy of Arts and Sciences.

There are no gasps in the packed auditorium, no expressions of surprise or skepticism.

At the Surface launch yesterday, the auditorium was packed with the tech press, and lots of MacBook Airs, but there was nary an iPad to be seen.

Her somber moment at this festive video game promotional event drew a loud round of applause from a packed auditorium.