On the first day I had to stand on a dais in front of the whole school; I was hideously embarrassed and tried to hide behind my big frizzy perm.
"Corinthian profits from poverty," Vasquez said from behind the dais in Washington.
Instead it was staged, with remarkable clarity, on an empurpled dais designed by Tom Scutt and made its points about power and status through carefully choreographed grouping.
Would it really have cost the prime minister so much to have the EU flag on the dais next to those of Germany and Britain on Thursday?
9fd0b13b-75f6-46b5-b87e-385c7012da18 RATHER theatrically, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, chairman of the European Union's constitutional convention, has placed a large green ceramic tortoise next to him on the raised dais from where he surveys the proceedings.
There was a time when Mr Obama couldn't approach a dais without colourful passages about America's epic geological features tumbling forth.
So different fromThe headline-chasing grandstanding of yore.This king will surely keep our dynastyIn Downing Street until the end of time.CLARKE: What a load of crap.GORDON from his dais: My people!
With a sudden blast of heavy guitar chords, they surged towards a small dais, while belting out their theme-song ("We're the infidels of the EDL and we're coming down the road…").
AS RAHUL GANDHI took the dais on March 20th, at Thakurdwara, western Uttar Pradesh (UP), lightning crackled and thunder boomed.
Then, moments before the soundbites were to be uttered, a phalanx of panicky Egyptians dismantled the podiums and dragged in a dais, some carpets and a long table.
On the dais, Mr Kabila received the presidents who will, at least in the short term, be his masters: Sam Nujoma of Namibia, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and, especially, Eduardo dos Santos of Angola.In the past, the Angolan president had expressed exasperation at the late Mr Kabila's failure to implement the 1999 Lusaka peace accord that would have ended the civil war.
