Sentence examples for Lecture from inspiring English sources

For me the lull before the storm was illustrated by the complacent attitude of the Federal Reserve's vice-chairman Stanley Fischer, in his question and answer session after the annual Per Jacobsson lecture – not least when he dismissed that great central banking veteran Paul Volcker's call for a more structured international financial system.

I have now read Lord Steyn's Attlee Foundation lecture.

Kelly, who had gathered together female pupils for his lecture, referred to a recent anti-rape advert.

Newcastle's fans have suffered enough this season; they don't need it ended with a sanctimonious lecture.

And she read art historian Aby Warburg's lecture on the frescoes: "He completely understood that that moment where opposites meet is the most fertile of points for the mind, for the soul and for the arts".

A well-received MacTaggart lecture at the 2012 Edinburgh TV Festival was followed by a lengthy New Yorker profile in December that year, headlined Heiress: the rise of Elisabeth Murdoch.

It doesn't know if I'm giving a lecture or watching a movie," says Schwarz.

But the reason members of the public always approach him as if they know him, as if he is an old friend, is not because they expect a lecture on politics.

"They moaned about the lighting; but they're playing in the lecture theatre, not the main hall, so there is not a lot we can do," said one organiser at the Palau de les Arts, the opera house in the city of Valencia.

Upstairs in a lecture hall, and dotted around nearby classrooms, fellow students are curled up on the floor asleep.

Every evening the students gather in one of the lecture halls to discuss the day's activities and vote on important measures.