Sentence examples for offered the opening from inspiring English sources

Catherine Gamon, director of the MIT Sloan Student Life Office, offered the opening remarks at the luncheon.

Nearly five months before that Christmas party, the chaplain of the Senate, the Rev. Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the opening prayer for a rare Sunday session.

The session was at times persnickety and at times amiable, with "Happy Birthday" sung to a Sunday school teacher who offered the opening prayer.

As Mr. Biden offered the opening remarks, Mr. Obama stood at his side and looked out into the audience, applauding and smiling.

Nintendo offered the opening move today at the Spaceworld video-game trade show in Tokyo, announcing both a new home console based on an I.B.M. PowerPC microprocessor and a new version of its handheld Game Boy portable system.

[A1.] Nintendo Announces New Console Nintendo offered the opening gambit in what is certain to become a bitter battle of new technology and cost-cutting in the home video game industry.

As chaplain, Conroy's public role is to offer the opening prayer each day the House is in session.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — For sheer spectacle, the Olympics offer the opening ceremony, the closing ceremony and dozens of medal ceremonies in between.

Tomorrow evening offers the opening night of Poulenc's "Dialogues of the Carmelites," sung in an English translation of the French libretto.

It is, however, a book to be offered to anyone who savors some of the most accomplished and nuanced soundings contemporary fiction has to offer; the opening portrait of the robber and his mother sets the tone for what is really a stunning series of variations on a theme.

But the issue blew up in recent days as lawmakers began to speak to the chaplain, whose public role is to offer the opening prayer each day the House is in session — but whose private role, far more importantly, is to serve as pastoral counsel to the entire community on the House side of the Capitol.