Sentence examples for banquet from inspiring English sources

The dramatic progress in Northern Ireland, which saw the establishment of the first enduring power-sharing executive led by the DUP and Sinn Féin in 2007, was highlighted when the former IRA commander and Sinn Féin deputy first minister Martin McGuinness was due to attend a state banquet in honour of Higgins at Windsor Castle on Tuesday night.

He proclaimed "the time has come to turn the page", while harkening back to his father's experience as a hard-working bartender in banquet halls.

A noble dish that once graced the banquet tables of the imperial Mughal court, rich with cream and nuts and heavily scented with expensive spice, has become a byword for bland, a "starter" curry, beloved of children and others with unadventurous tastes.

The president's visit followed the Queen's highly successful visit to the Irish Republic in 2011 in which she prompted the then Irish president, Mary McAleese, to exclaim "wow" when she opened her speech at a banquet in Dublin Castle in Irish.

In his speech at Tuesday night's banquet, Higgins praised the Queen for choosing "not to shy away from the shadows of the past" when she acknowledged "some of the painful moments of our mutual history" during her visit to Dublin.

It gives the dish, to my fanciful mind, the perfumed whiff of a lavish Mughal banquet.

This unfinished masterpiece has haunted the centuries and will surely haunt the banquet of an exhibition about Leonardo da Vinci in Milan coming to London's National Gallery this autumn.

In January we had a chat and he told me off because in Turin at the European Indoors [in 2009] I went out at the banquet and got absolutely wankered.

Tyson is King's banquet ticket Douglas was only supposed to be the hors d'oeuvre.

There follows a banquet.

At a typical banquet guests line up to give cash at a reception table, where someone records the amount and the name of the guest in the family's gift ledger.