Sentence examples for acted as a stage from inspiring English sources

The public square could have hosted demonstrations and acted as a stage for TV reporter stand-ups, showing the Berlaymont (Commission headquarters) and Council buildings in the background.

The atolls of Tuvalu acted as a staging post during the preparation for the Battle of Tarawa and the Battle of Makin that commenced on 20 November 1943, which was the implementation of operation Galvanic.

Everything happens inside this "dark chamber," which acts as a stage within a stage.

There was a little room nearby with a long desk, which could act as a stage.

It attracts nearly 100,000 people and the city streets act as a stage for acts from around the world.

In turn, the passthrough transistors obey the commands of a section of memory on the chip that acts as a stage director.

Australia is trying to deter refugees from landing on its shores and has paid $10m to Nauru to act as a staging post.

Down the street, a McDonald's and a Subway stood ready to absorb the ancillary economic effects of increased retail traffic in the neighborhood, which acts as a staging area for private port-based businesses like warehousing and freight forwarding.

That being said, I would prefer that my employer didn't gleefully act as a staging ground for the career rehabilitation of an accused sleazebag.

The first one acted as a control stage with all the actions being conducted without mishaps.

I have chaired debates and acted as an on-stage interviewer (of the then Times editor Robert Thomson and the then Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman).