Sentence examples for be given the floor from inspiring English sources

At those moments of the campaign when Labour was to be given the floor, the party had either prepared nothing or used its platform to attack the Tories fronting the remain campaign, rubbishing George Osborne's warnings of the economic consequences of Brexit for example.

The committee is not prepared to deal with this". Karl Johannes von Schwarzenberg, an Austrian aristocrat who is chairman of the international delegation, said, "We are glad to hear different voices from our delegation and the Soviet delegation," and then repeated the request that Timofeyev be given the floor.

Again, Schmidt was given the floor for one minute.

It was a night when children were given the floor to bestow accolades on Hollywood.

"It was a night when children were given the floor to bestow accolades on Hollywood," Jacques Steinberg reports.

When David Cameron was given the floor at a dinner of European heads of government on Thursday evening, it was a form of accolade unusual in EU summitry.

Senator Joseph Biden, a Delaware Democrat who is the ranking minority member of the Foreign Relations Committee, was given the floor to respond only at a closed-door lunch the next day.

Make sure that they are given the floor to deliver an idea in a way that makes them comfortable so you won't miss out.

Those in attendance were given the floor to talk about their loved ones and experiences with war.

Before Pelosi was given the floor, however, the Democratic manager of the debate, top Budget Committee Democrat John Yarmuth of Kentucky, had to yield her time.

Rockwell remembered a scene of a local town meeting in which one person spoke out in lone dissent, but was given the floor, and was listened to respectfully, despite his solitary opposition.