Sentence examples for before taking the podium from inspiring English sources

We see Obama sitting on a curb, alone, moments before taking the podium at an event.

Before taking the podium in Hartford, Mr. Winograd was the music director of the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in Alabama.

"She was terribly gracious," Mr. Field said before taking the podium, "but her face and her hands were so large.

Onstage, before taking the podium, she received a group hug from a flock of women, most of them suited in blue.

Before taking the podium she already knew from internal polling that Sanders was going to win handily in Wisconsin.

"He reconfirms that this is a serious group," said Cretz, noting he spoke to the diplomat just an hour before taking the podium.

And Mr. Cheney, on taking the podium before beginning his 23-minute speech, said archly: "I'm glad Zell Miller is on our side".

Taking the podium before Netanyahu, Senator Robert Menendez said he still sees his proposal to impose new sanctions as the best way to ensure Iran does not develop a nuclear weapon, but he offered no timetable for reviving such a bill.

Taking the podium, he waited, and waited.

But to begin, there is the orchestra tuning — formally dressed, of course — and Dudamel, looking slight on the stage before he takes the podium.

Confusion ensues, support drops away: seconds before Selina takes the podium to deliver her corn starch speech, it gets a tough edit from the White House.