Sentence examples for a raised dais from inspiring English sources

The council chairman, Adnan Abdul Sahid, sat at a raised dais.

Trustees sat on a raised dais behind Surma, who sat stoically as Garban turned over the news conference to him.

Inside, Oleksandr Turchynov, the country's acting president, looked down from a raised dais, and members of parliament milled around below.

Ministers sit at a long table on a raised dais participating in an apparently endless press conference shown on live television for the few who can watch it.

At the Olympic Stadium, as the soccer team assembled on a raised dais with assorted dignitaries, the police chained the gates to keep the crowds from flooding into the already full stadium, which has seating for only 15,000.

The image in this series which deals with India does not, however, show the handing over of the Diwani but an earlier scene, where again a Mughal prince is sitting on a raised dais, under a canopy.

As you enter the Center for Performance Research auditorium (in Williamsburg, Brooklyn) for the performance of Anne Zuerner's "near the far," four dancers are seated against a wall, with the audience (most on a slightly raised dais) facing them.

To the right as you entered from outside was a small raised dais where the two elder monks sat beside a white Buddha.

At the southern end is a shallow raised dais on which the Lytes and favoured guests would have sat at a long table, facing the rest of the hall where the servants would have dined.

I'd be standing underneath their raised dais, a good three feet below them (and I'm over six feet tall), and they'd finish typing and just hand back my passport and blue customs form.

She was sitting cross-legged on a pillow beneath the raised dais where the high seats stood, but she rose as they entered, dressed in a clinging gown of pale blue samite with sleeves of Myrish lace that made her look as innocent as the Maid herself.