Sentences with phrase «won applause»

Speaking at the 2014 Congress Lowitja, the biennial conference of the Lowitja Institute — Australia's national Indigenous health research body — Mundine won applause from the audience for his recent public stand against the proposed repeal of Section 18c of the Racial Discrimination Act.

The new louder speakers also won applause, as did Apple's superfast A11 Bionic CPU.

Hempstead's suit has won applause from other media outlets, but ultimately, it will probably wind up tossed in the same place as his daily newspaper: the recycle bin.

Gov. Terry McAuliffe pitched his all - of - the - above energy plan Tuesday to a joint gathering of business leaders and the Virginia League of Conservation Voters, and he won applause at several points for a promised turn toward conservation and renewable energy.

Both scholars won applause.

And he won applause when he said Angela Merkel's welcome for immigrants had been one of the biggest policy errors of recent history.

In a speech, Dalton won applause by referring to Mond as having never got «beyond the Old Testament» — an obvious antisemitic jibe.

And even if the last of those three announcements is a gentle fib, it'll still win applause.

But Mr Straw was prepared to back down nonetheless, winning applause from Tory backbencher John Redwood who congratulated him on an «excellent concession».

Both studies win applause.

Wear the combination as you participate in the college speech competition and win applauses for your performance and style.

One night he writes a ringing declaration of principle that wins him the applause of his colleagues; it also soon brings him the chance to be fired in a crowded restaurant by his former protege.

The superintendent of the Rochester, N.Y., schools is winning applause from teachers and community leaders for advancing an ambitious set of goals for the 35,000 - pupil district.

Several urban school chiefs are winning applause for carrying out important reforms with more collaborative approaches: in Baltimore, Tampa and Miami, for instance.

In hindsight, the mayor could have gotten away with blocking several thousand charter expansion seats while winning applause from his many anti-charter supporters.

He performs for his friends like a puppet; he'll do whatever it takes to win their applause.

Not exact matches

-- Last week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau won widespread applause in Canada for privately unbraiding Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte for his brutal human rights abuses.

She's brought in comprehensive climate reforms and a carbon tax, but she is using those commitments to try and secure national support for the Energy East and Trans Mountain pipelines, references that received only tepid applause in a convention speech that otherwise had NDP delegates overjoyed by her enthusiasm and winning ways.

He may gain many other words, big important words, words that will get votes, win compliments, elicit applause, gain members, or sell real estate, but having lost his own word, he himself is lost.

«Perhaps some policy mistakes could have been avoided if the bishops were prepared to engage with Thatcherism instead of winning cheap applause by misrepresenting it.»

Then if (and I mean a very big IF) we go on to win the title, he can come out and claim we did it without spending big, and take all of the credit and applause for being the first manager in a long time to not «buy» the title.

«I think it's almost impossible to repeat a run of 25 wins in 26 games and I have extra applause for the eight players who won all five Scudetti.

Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) 8 September: Oscar - winning director, Danis Tanovic, took to the stage to resounding applause following the screening of Tigers, his new 90 - minute fact - based drama, and revealed that the character played by Emraan Hashmi, called Ayan in the film, was actually in the theatre.

«The man who won two of those elections is with us today,» she said, turning to Mr. Clinton and leading the applause.

That's why the «odd one out» always wins most applause in political debate.

«It's time to put up or shut up already, because I've got an election to win,» he said to rousing applause from a crowd packed with his supporters at the First Corinthian Baptist Church.

If this unformed, unclear policy is the only one to win Alexander a raucous response - all other «fairer tax» declarations merely gathering a smattering of applause - then it is an indictment of Lib Dem clarity on their economic policy and work in the Treasury.

The business secretary won himself a round of applause for that one.

This principled moment won him perhaps his longest round of applause and he deserved it.

Her brief speech won rapturous applause and she now faces pressure to switch from football to politics - pressure she is resisting.

He did not mention criminal justice reform, a central focus of his earlier speech in Manhattan, won his loudest applause when mentioning the gun control law — the SAFE Act — that drew protesters to the windy green outside the History Museum and called for a minimum wage increase.

Jeremy Corbyn won huge applause from the crowds in Hyde Park when he pledged that the next Labour government would create a ministry to guarantee workers» rights.

In an 18 - minute speech that was uninterrupted by clapping until polite applause at the end, Astorino again repeated his central campaign question: are New Yorkers winning or losing, and if they are losing, it's time to change course.

He told activists in his first party conference speech to «let sunshine win the day» and managed to get a round of applause for a mention of civil partnerships.

«The meeting came after five of the hopefuls made their case to the GMB union at a hustings which saw Mr McDonnell win loud applause by attacking Margaret Thatcher's cuts in the 1980s.

He also won the most applause for some of his answers, including the suggestion that the government should cut its military budget to pay for improving educational opportunities for students with disabilities.

A large number of Party members believe that he's also right on the first, if the applause that Clegg's name won at October's Party conference is anything to go by.

He won the support of many Labour MPs, who are convinced he will stand up to Conservative leader David Cameron, but there was a marked lack of applause from the Tory benches.

To huge applause, the former Ukip leader added: «We didn't fight to win that referendum to argue with a begging bowl in Brussells for better [fishing] quotas.

«We will be putting together an army not just to win an election in November but to turn this state around in January,» he continued amid rising applause.

But Quinn also won strong support from neighborhood stalwarts, including former State Senator Tom Duane, whose defense of Quinn's character drew a long applause.

Morrison winning really would have made a better statement than extended applause segments and recognizing females contribute behind the scenes.

Director Maren Ade's father - daughter story won sustained applause and rapturous reviews when it debuted on Friday

She spent the next decade or so alternating between film and television before heading to Broadway, appearing in the musical «Applause,» for which she won the Tony Award as Best Actress.

That could set the stage for an upset in which «Little Miss Sunshine» wins and everybody at the Kodak Theatre bursts into wild applause because, in their heart of hearts, it's the picture they love best.

And he won the most applause at the Oscar luncheon recently.

Although his serious work has attracted applause and acclaim (including a BAFTA best actor nomination for Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, and Golden Globe wins for Man On The Moon and The Truman Show), audience acceptance of his silly side, first glimpsed in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, has grown to dizzying heights.

James Franco, recently accused of sexual misconduct by five women, won the award for best actor in a comedy, to muted applause.

Allison Janney's best supporting actress win for «I, Tonya» got wild applause, as did McDormand when she called for an «inclusion rider» during her acceptance speech celebrating diversity and women storytellers.

And several all - time classics have been booed at Cannes, including the 2011 film The Tree of Life, which also received applause to counter the boos and then went on to win the Palme d'Or and receive an Oscar Best Picture nomination.