They can take over an hour to bring delegates in in the morning, depending on the particular hotel and the traffic, and rarely take much less than half an hour.
With zero funds to bring delegates to Washington, Monday's White House Conference on Aging will rely on a mixture of tools to spread its message: tweets, questions delivered through Facebook, and "watch" parties in all 50 states.
His closing speech brought delegates to tears, and left many with a sense that they'd chosen wrong.
The repeated refrain, that Labour's message is, "You don't have to take what you're given," brought delegates to their feet.
Following the defeat of a Genoese fleet bringing delegates for a papal council to Rome, more than 100 high-ranking ecclesiastics cardinals and bishops among them were taken as Frederick's prisoners to Apulia.
It also follows the address by Condoleezza Rice, the former secretary of state, who repeatedly brought delegates to their feet with a pointed critique of America's place in the world and her personal observations about the nation's decline under Mr. Obama.
Despite a tribute to his mother, Rosie, that brought delegates to their feet, he left out the most interesting details of her life: that's she was a prominent radical Chicana activist who was a leader of La Raza Unida in Texas in the nineteen-seventies.
Mr. Castro, 37, was the first Latino to deliver a keynote address at the Democratic National Convention, and the applause in the arena was reminiscent of the party's convention eight years ago in Boston when an Illinois state senator named Barack Obama brought delegates to their feet.
Instead, Corbyn brought delegates to their feet with his appeal to popular decency and solidarity, his rejection of illegal warmaking and Trident renewal, and his unqualified opposition to the new benefit and tax credit cuts about to be imposed on millions across Britain.
He told the conference in Manchester that Britain "must never ever let the NHS free from our grasp" and he brought delegates to their feet when he ended his speech with the plea: "Mr Cameron, Keep your mitts off my NHS".
On May 24, however, Rockefeller delivered the New York delegates to Ford, and continued to work to bring uncommitted delegates into the Ford camp.
