Sentence examples for on a rostrum from inspiring English sources

Rob actually believes his own lies, a dizzying phenomenon usually only encountered on a rostrum.

Deep inside me, though, was now a dread of standing on a rostrum, and I began running slower and slower.

In the main auditorium of the Great Hall of the People, under a giant hammer and sickle, Mr. Hu appeared on a rostrum with all the other members of the Politburo and the Central Committee, arranged in precise hierarchical order.

She is standing on a striped mat on a rostrum, and the real back wall of the studio is visible behind the edge of a screen draped with an orange cloth.

His mother, Amy Balsz, watched in the back of the room as her son stood on a rostrum and steered his way through a bevy of questions as if he had performed at this kind of news media gathering for years.

Also mentions the endless noise: "...there is no way to cut out the visual and aural din, no way to switch back to silence and order... ...... Tells about the size of the convention: "Here the chairman is a remote figure on a rostrum that looks like a Babylonian terrace in a Cecil B. DeMille movie".

"It was not the climate for getting up on a public rostrum and lecturing people on the racial issue," recalled Frank A. Rose, then the university president.

They seem to be and are thrilled to hobnob with the most popular politician in the country.Blusukan, a habit Jokowi acquired as mayor of Solo, a small city in central Java, is a novelty in a country where politicians are usually glimpsed, if at all, on a distant rostrum.

A newly installed button on the rostrum is pressed, switching on a green light in the Royal Box on the second floor to give them a three-minute warning to get downstairs.

He wanted to get a woman on the rostrum at an Olympics and I'm just glad it was me".

Neither was it Nottingham Forest's John McGovern looking like a toddler being handed a fridge over the counter as he collected the European Cup on a strangely high rostrum in Munich in 1979.