Sentence examples for opening banquet from inspiring English sources

Vice-Premier Teng Hsiao p'ing, chief Chinese spokesman, proclaimed at the opening banquet that the U.S. should not trust Russia.

At an opening banquet, Satya Nadella, Microsoft's chief executive, and Bill Gates sat on either side of Mr. Xi's top aide, Li Zhanshu, a positioning probably more favorable for garnering influence than sitting next to Mr. Xi himself.

Having nearly lost sight of himself and his dreams alike, he at first couldn't even hear the balding blueblood at the Metropolitan Opera's gala opening banquet, who, as the dessert plate went down (from the left, of course; a floating island, what else?), said: "You're much too clever-looking to be in this line of work.

At age 7, during the opening banquet of the Stevens hotel, Stevens remembers meeting Amelia Earhart, who asked him, "Aren't you out late on a school night?" A few months later, Charles Lindbergh stayed at the hotel after returning from his historic flight to Europe and, eager to unload the gifts that were filling his room, gave young Stevens a dove.

On Saturday 1 July 1871, an opening banquet was attended by the Prime Minister William Gladstone, who was also a shareholder.

A few years ago the government wowed citizens with eye-opening banquets of free vegetables and fruit spread along city sidewalks, financed by natural-gas exports; now Turkmenistan experiences frequent food shortages.

Residents have fought against the opening of new banquet halls near their neighborhoods and the city has laws specifically tailored to the commercial establishments.

Plans for the future are yet more ambitious: treehouses (capacity will grow to 800), family weeks, an eco research centre with Eden Labs, marine conservation projects, banquets – and opening will be extended, from June to October.

'The Banquet' opens on 11 April.

They've been together for four years now and Joe proposed on the shores of Lake Como as they journeyed down to the Venice Film Festival last September, when Atonement played as the opening-night film, complete with banquet and fireworks on the beach.

The inaugural banquet for the building opening was marched on by a sizable column of Chicago labor activists, under the International Working People's Association banner and led by Albert Parsons, Lucy Parsons, and Lizzie Holmes.