Sentence examples for conference commentators from inspiring English sources

8.46am BST ECB preview Looking ahead to the ECB press conference, commentators are mixed on what will emerge.

In the days leading up to the news conference, conservative commentators and media outlets had pressed a theme that Mr. Obama was threatening to take potentially tyrannical anti-gun action by executive order.

Amina Nkeki was flown directly to the Nigerian capital, Abuja, to meet Buhari and be paraded in a press conference that commentators described as a "desperate bid to claim credit" for her release.

Speaking at the same Guardian conference, media commentator and Murdoch fanboy Michael Wolff summed the situation up nicely when he said "Every big-city newspaper in the U.S. is either in bankruptcy or will be in bankruptcy in the foreseeable future – that's 12 months.

So tense did the press conference seem that commentators likened it to Mr Obama's first-term encounters with Israel's prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu.For Palestinian negotiators, Mr Obama's apparent rewriting of the old rules for peace-making makes the call to resume direct talks all the harder to swallow.

✒Addressing a rightwing thinktank's conference, the Times commentator and Tory peer Lord Finkelstein said recent election results and polls showed focusing on the Ukip threat would be disastrous, the Independent reported on Friday.

Here is some reaction to the press conference from journalists and commentators.

For example, speakers at the 2011 TED conference included American political commentator David Brooks, American film critic Roger Ebert, U.S. Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, and British chef Jamie Oliver.

Mr. Gates's sharp language was met with some skepticism by at least one participant in the conference, a Hong Kong television commentator, who in a question-and-answer session after the defense secretary's formal remarks noted that although Mr. Gates had declared that the United States would not recognize North Korea as a nuclear weapons state, it was already a "de facto nuclear weapons state".

Chief sports writer Oliver Holt:  "At the post-match news conference, a veteran US commentator called Bud Collins, a little frail now and in his 80s, spoke to Murray from the floor and told him he had known Perry.

After Premier Wen Jiabao was asked about the self-immolations during his once-a-year press conference with foreign media, one commentator was suddenly reminded of how much news was being redacted from what most Chinese read about Tibet: "In all honesty, I didn't even know anything about the Tibetan immolations until this press conference.