Ms. Alsop stood on a high podium toward the right, leaving a space in the middle for the cast to perform.
The ruins on a high podium at the opposite end are the Capitolium, the temple of Jupiter, Juno and Minerva, representing the state religion.
The immigration officer led me to a room on the side where four officers were sitting on a very high podium joking about some guy they didn't like, and one of them was shouting, "Deport him, deport him!" I smile: it's tough trying not to look nervous when you are in front of a panel of four archangels who will decide whether you deserve to enter paradise.
An auctioneer in a baseball cap sits at a high wooden podium, calling out the styles of furniture in a staccato rhythm, taking about 30 seconds to announce and close a sale.
That is the International Olympic Committee, and it is to them that Sebastian Coe must travel to create a body with sufficient muscle to tackle drugs in athletics (Coe reaches highest podium in athletics, 20 August).
Perhaps most amazing is that at this highest podium of European football 49 players (9percentt) are under contract with a team that does not play in the highest division of that country!
From the six-feet-high podium, staircases slope into the audience.
It's the highest podium and you can't do that.
Mr. Ozawa, looking thin and frail, moved cautiously across the stage and into position; his main difficulty, it seemed, was stepping onto and off the high podium.
Festooned with gold, silver and bronze, or simply displaying the satisfaction of having taken part, Team GB's Olympians and Paralympians waved at the admiring multitude – said to number around a quarter of a million – as the parade of a dozen floats made its way from the City of London to Trafalgar Square, where one of Britain's greatest winners looked down from his 151ft-high podium.
