Sentences with word «rostrum»

Writing for the Blairite Progress magazine in 2013, Johnson described trade union officials as «fat, white, finger - jabbing blokes on rostrums shouting and screaming» [38] and said in 2014 that «A perception that Labour is in the pocket of the unions is damaging to the party... The precious link between Labour and the unions becomes a liability rather than an advantage when it is allowed to look like a transaction.»

««A five - year campaign to promote Christian theology in China, launched in 2013, will provide theological guidance for church rostrums in China and will promote the positive and correct theological thinking.»

Former heptathlete Katy Marchant was another to climb the medal rostrum at Rio 2016 after sealing bronze in the individual sprint.

Their readings play out over a mix of archive footage, clips from his work, rostrum camera stills and, most interestingly, home movies shot by Fuller himself, including some of his wartime experiences.

His first rostrum appearance came at home, though he never reached the top three again in Belgium after that.

You'll want to watch closely as Ginsu, the 14 - foot green sawfish, sticks her 4 - foot rostrum partway out of the water to eat.

«If you can't even win your own class, your butt has no business being up there [in the president's rostrum],» said one member aligned with Passidomo, who asked to speak without attribution so as to provide clearer insight into the workings of the Senate.

Just minutes after Cuomo stepped to an elaborate wooden rostrum to begin his speech, Barron stood up in the audience and began denouncing him for failing to properly fund public education.

She took to the chamber rostrum, holding Sophia's hand as they navigated the three marble steps along the hallway.

An invisible particle's discovery was honored in 2013, but this year the ubiquitous LED takes its place on the Nobel rostrum

«We believe that they use sponges as a kind of glove to protect their sensitive rostrums when they probe for prey in the substrate,» says Michael Krützen, formerly of the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and now at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

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The most noticeable absentees from the Belize diving rostrum are big schools of fish, either big or small.

This dragon has a dorsoventrally flattened rostrum, which means it has a long, flat snout and its mouth is filled with long, curved and serrated teeth.

After the second speaker, the leader from the visiting group turns the rostrum over to the secretary of the local group who makes announcements concerning future meetings and says: «There are no dues or fees in AA, but we do have expenses, so we'll now pass the hat.»

Should people on the rostrum move about or do things while the speaker is holding forth, we find this distracting.

And on the rostrum is a man, looking strangely like the governor of Alabama, shouting to the crowd: «It can not happen here!»

Among the dignitaries on the rostrum was William Shea.

Sunday's final may also provide a Varsity preview, one of his main rivals for the rostrum being from Cambridge!

A lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Mustapha Hameed, said the president was standing on a rostrum decorated with a red cloth on top and the Ghana flag by the sides.

The eighth link features a photo of Heastie himself, standing on the rostrum at the front of the Assembly chamber on Feb. 3, 2015 — the day he was elected to replace Assemblyman Sheldon Silver as speaker, becoming the first African - American in New York history to hold that leadership post.

And with grim, plodding regularity, the Lower East Side Democrat has weathered each of them, outlasting four governors, five State Senate leaders and countless other lawmakers who have shuffled along the marble hallway, under the vaulted ceiling and through the glass doors to his office just behind the chamber's rostrum.

He's had to develop a relationship with a new state Assembly speaker, Carl Heastie, after corruption charges toppled longtime speaker Sheldon Silver from the rostrum and from his seat in closed - door budget discussions with the other leaders.

In 2007, his only full year in the position, David Paterson presided 42 times; the prior year, Lieutenant Governor Mary Donohue was behind the rostrum 62 times.

Indeed, the mechanics of knocking Silver off the speaker's rostrum are complicated.

Aregbesola before mounting the rostrum in front of the palace, had earlier paid courtesy call on the Ogiyan of Ejigbo, Oba Omowonuola Oyeyode Oyesosin.

By the time he took the rostrum in the House chamber last night for the functional equivalent of a State of the Union address, President Trump had generated considerable suspense around what he would actually say and how it would be received.

A more recent — and more dubious — claim to fame: He was on the rostrum with Sen. Neil Breslin when two then - Democratic senators — Pedro Espada Jr. and Hiram Monserrate — defected to the GOP in the now - infamous Senate coup.

Also at noon, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie will preside over Opening Day deliberations and present remarks from the rostrum, Assembly chamber, 3rd Floor, state Capitol, Albany.

Back in the Assembly Chamber, while Silver was in a courtroom awaiting the judge's sentencing, his replacement was at the rostrum welcoming three new Assembly members who won seats in special elections April 19, including Silver's replacement, Alice Cancel, a Democrat.

«Wow,» Mr. Heastie said after he had ambled to the rostrum at the front of the chamber.

His only constitutional role is as president of the State Senate, but he rarely takes the rostrum.

After the wind of mistake of majority brew Akuffo - Addo as President elect, he, (Akuffo - Addo) took the rostrum in a house he allegedly inherited from his father and delivered his acceptance speech.

Already today in Albany, the state government has plunged even deeper into farcical chaos: Senate Democrats, who'd been boycotting the legislative proceedings for two weeks, suddenly sneaked into the ornate chamber two hours ahead of schedule and locked the doors behind them in order to seize the rostrum before the Republicans arrived — a sort of suit - and - tie version of capture the flag.

He appealed unsuccessfully from the rostrum of the Labour Party Conference for the National Executive Committee to overturn their endorsement of his deselection.

John Mann, MP for Bassetlaw, received loud applause from Labour conference delegates when he called from the rostrum for the party to levy a «tax» on Labour MPs with second jobs and outside earnings, and on former Labour ministers who go on to earn fortunes from consultancies and directorships.

Beneath a statue of Confucius in Chatham Square in Chinatown before a crowd of nearly 1,000 waving blue campaign banners for the comptroller candidate, Jamy Liu took the rostrum and said she, Liu and her other children all had worked in a sweatshop in the 1970s.

On Sunday, CLP delegate Maggie Dunn went to the rostrum to complain that debates on rule changes proposed last year by Bridgend and Islington North might not be allowed because of an NEC rule change only finalised that day.

In the Knesset, the Assembly Speaker and the delegation were acknowledged from the rostrum by the Deputy Speaker Bar at a session attended by the Prime Minister, and received a warm applause.

It's unclear whether the speaker will climb the rostrum during Monday's session one last time or address the chamber.

The 37 - year - old's political star began rising sharply when he took to the rostrum at the Democratic National Convention and spoke passionately about his humble upbringing in South Florida.

Democrats sneaked into the Senate chamber shortly after noon, seizing control of the rostrum and locking Republicans out of the room.

It was just bad luck that he chose to speak at exactly the same time that Barack Obama came to the rostrum at the United Nations in New York.

Hatton, whose actions in fighting the Thatcher Government were condemned from the rostrum by Neil Kinnock during The Labour Party Conference in 1985, 12 months before he was expelled, discussed his own political record and the reasons why he feels Ed Miliband failed to win over the electorate.

This will actually be the longest speech I've ever given,» Heastie said addressing members from the rostrum overlooking the chamber.