Sentence examples for marble podium from inspiring English sources

When the presidents and prime ministers mount the green marble podium, there will be a strong element of theatre.

And, above that, Amintore Fanfani, the President of the General Assembly, was sitting behind a marble podium.

When he arrived at the green marble podium, Trump expounded on his visceral dislike of multilateral institutions, which he portrayed as inherent threats to US sovereignty.

The Security Council "is political feudalism for those who have a permanent seat," Colonel Qaddafi said, speaking in Arabic and riffling through various documents on the hall's green marble podium.

The French leader, speaking from the famous green marble podium of the General Assembly barely an hour after President Obama, also said it was time to change the formula in trying to negotiate an Arab-Israeli peace, taking an indirect swipe at the United States by saying the efforts so far were a complete failure.

UNITED NATIONS — The United States and Iran used the United Nations General Assembly's famous green marble podium on Monday to trade punches over the Islamic republic's nuclear program, adding sudden drama to the normally staid opening of the international conference to review the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.

Pep talks are formally delivered in locker rooms at half-time, on the threshold of battlefields, from marble podiums after Japanese bombers have ruined an otherwise lovely Sunday morning in Hawaii.

Trump used the green marble UN podium to pour scorn on the agreement, the signature foreign policy achievement of Barack Obama, the predecessor he so blatantly despises.

Under a 44-foot-high ceiling and flanked by marble friezes, the podium can be lost in the room's grandeur.

Eyes alight, he extended his arm in a possessive sweep across the modernist splendor of the General Assembly chamber with its green marble speaker's podium and giant golden screen bearing the United Nations seal, its horseshoe-shaped rows of desks in blond wood and canted walls with gilt fluting, and above, a powder-blue dome -- all gleaming in the blaze of a dozen 20-kilowatt lamps.

The unexpected visit – Trump's first meeting with a head of state since he became a candidate – yielded presidential optics in the form of a podium and marble backdrop in an international setting.