"We are very satisfied with how things went," said Franco Gabrielli, the head of the Italian civil protection agency, who was applauded once again by local people who had gathered in the port since news of the long-awaited success was confirmed – by press briefing and foghorn – shortly after 4am on Tuesday.
The audience applauded once more.
President Nixon started applauding, and once he started applauding, everyone started applauding.
Try this bit on gay marriage (which was warmly applauded):I once stood before a Conservative conference and said it shouldn't matter whether commitment was between a man and a woman, a woman and a woman, or a man and another man.
Is Taylor right that British Jews are so enamored of vacuous titles - polls show that a majority of Britains would like to see the stodgy and ossified House of Lords abolished - and empty pomp and circumstance that they would applaud a once-courageous Rabbinic institution falling silent even as the Jewish state has become more reviled in the UK than North Korea?
The proliferation of machinery such as fancy scanners, once applauded, is now criticised as a main cause of runaway health costs.
"Those initiatives — once applauded by the regulators as diligent and responsible management — have, through the alchemy of Washington, D.C., politics been turned into allegations of gross negligence," Mr. Killinger said in a statement.
SpaceX flight controllers, at company headquarters in Hawthorne, California, exchanged high-fives, shook hands, applauded and embraced once Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata snared the Dragon with the station's robot arm.
Gov. Christie Whitman of New Jersey acknowledged that her state police had been stopping black and Hispanic drivers as part of a drug-enforcement effort the public once applauded and moved to stop the practice.
Those Newcastle fans who once applauded his every touch may be more inclined to view the 28-year-old's extraordinary renaissance as another take on the scapegoat's return from the wilderness.
