Sentence examples for and the first speaker from inspiring English sources

The Next Web conference that I am moderating in Amsterdam just kicked off, and the first speaker was Adeo Ressi, the founder of TheFunded, the invite-only community for venture-funded CEOs to compare notes about building startups and bitch about VCs.

The chairperson or adjudicator will start the debate, and the first speaker will present their speech.

He was backed up by the daughter of Gujarati immigrants who arrived in our country from East Africa with nothing except the clothes they stood up in, Priti Patel… …and the first speaker was Sajid Javid, whose father came here from Pakistan to drive the buses.

By the time the rally kicked off at high noon outside parliament house, the temperature had climbed to about 95 degrees in the full sun and as the first speaker started, and the Reclaim Australia faithful moved out from the shade to watch.

Mr. Miller attended the first hour of the hearing and was the first speaker.

Condi Rice took the stage, and was the first speaker in the convention who blew my socks off.

Newt Gingrich, here to shill for his documentary films, got a 10-minute speaking slot this morning -- and was the first speaker that it was hard to believe would restrain himself to the allotted time.

They arrived in time, and to applause when the first speaker mentioned the record.

That year, Republicans won their first majority in the House in 40 years, and Mr. Foley became the first speaker since the Civil War to be defeated for re-election in his own district.

"Gandhi said he learned from Hussein to be subject to injustice, and yet he won," the first speaker, Ali al-Allaq, a Parliament member from the Dawa Party, told the audience.

In his analysis of topic proffering sequences, Schegloff [ 15] observes that when a speaker proffers a topic and the recipient displays reluctance to take up and develop the proffered topic, the first speaker can issue a "second try" (p. 173 175).