However, the town of Avignon announced it was going ahead with its festival to "applaud together the forces of life".
Nevertheless I believe the result we now have is to be applauded and together with my fellow-Members here I must compliment Mrs Peijs on her achievement.
Shortly before that happened, we applauded the coming together in May of Senators Charles Schumer, Mitch McConnell, Robert Torricelli and Sam Brownback behind a worthy bipartisan bill.
The House speaker, John A. Boehner, who has long pushed the president to send Congress all three trade deals together, applauded Wednesday's announcement.
While the men spoke, it was obvious that, much like the Bette Davis aficionados who, in pre-VCR days, used to crowd into New York's revival theaters to see "Jezebel" for the 40th time -- the filmgoers applauded favorite moments together on instinct -- the WFAN late-night callers were by now a collection of anonymous people who were well known to one another.
If anything, President Obama should be applauded for bringing together the major emerging economies and hitting the "reset button" on the mitigation negotiation framework.
They practice together, drink together, applaud one another.
Together, thousands applauded and at times even chanted her name as she passed, smiling and waving.
He applauded Congress for coming together to work on immigration and at least trying to tackle the country's finances.
But while he applauded the Senate effort - put together by a group of four Democrats and four Republicans - the president also warned that if Congress fails to take action on immigration, the White House would write legislation of its own and insist that lawmakers vote on it.
