Sentence examples for official listening from inspiring English sources

In a wide-open ballroom in Manhattan last week, a room with gilded columns and dark herringbone floors, men and women in dark suits sat at a reception for a retiring city official, listening to speeches as they munched on tidy portions of chicken and salad greens.

Even thought it is only available on digital platforms, including digital audio broadcasting (DAB) radio, 6 Music overtook Radio 3 in the last official listening figures, with 1.89 million listeners a week in the second quarter of this year, against 1.88 million.

The main 5 Live station, which moved from London to Salford four years ago, also suffered a big ratings drop in the last official listening figures, down 700,000 to 5.6 million listeners a week.

The X Factor effect may prove beneficial in the next set of official listening figures for Grimshaw as the ITV show only returned on 29 August.

Radio audiences are turning to the soothing properties of classical music as a means of coping with the traumas brought on by the economic downturn, gloomy weather and summer exams, according to official listening statistics released yesterday.

The Radio 4 spin-off station reported a 12.6% rise in listeners to hit 2.2 million, surpassing 6 Music, which also managed a record quarter, according to the latest official listening figures from Rajar.

The official listened calmly, nodding his head as I spoke.

Norman Siegel, a lawyer and the former director of the New York Civil Liberties Union who had publicly criticized the crackdown in Washington Square, said he recalled a community board meeting in which a park official listened patiently as musicians and local residents denounced the new rule.

Mr. Ashcroft said the regulation stipulated that the officials listening in on communications would not be able to pass any information to prosecutors and that none of the information could be used in court without a judge's permission.

She said these things on a conference call with two other Monsanto officials listening in, and only a bit later, after a reminder from the company's press officer, did she add, "As Brad mentioned, we are following other countries' laws, but having a bill in the United States that endorses those is a totally different thing".

Without individuals and our elected officials listening to each other, even those with whom we disagree; perhaps especially to those with whom we disagree.