Sentence examples for podium about from inspiring English sources

Raf Simons, one of the evening's honorees, made a tidy joke at the podium about the gravy stain on his tie.

To watch someone bellowing from the podium about this being the most exciting moment in socialism in decades is to know more powerfully than you have ever known anything that it would get murdered by a Jeremy Kyle repeat.

RICHMOND, British Columbia — They sat on the interview podium about a foot apart, the United States long-track speedskaters Shani Davis and Chad Hedrick appearing much closer than they were four years ago, when nine-hundredths of a second separated them in the 1,500 meters at the Turin Olympics.

Activists said that Mr. Yeshi, who left Tibet a couple of years ago, self-immolated while Inder Singh Namdhari, a minister in the lower house of Parliament, was speaking at the podium about the high number of self-immolations in Tibet.

The "Spider-Man" musical supervisor, Kimberly Grigsby, conducts the guitarists, drummer and keyboard player in one room, with two small cameras attached to her podium; about 20 feet down the hall, the brass and string sections of the orchestra watch her image on small screens attached to their music stands.

It is so long since Anita Lonsbrough came home first in the breaststroke at the 1960 Games in Rome that even Adlington herself looked slightly dazed as she stood on the podium, about to become the first teenager from Mansfield to be kissed on both cheeks by Prince Albert of Monaco.

Before the leaders took to their podiums, about 150 protesters from activist group No One Is Illegal placed banners on the sidewalk with the names of migrants who had died, and chanted "Refugees welcome!" It has been almost a month since three-year-old Alan Kurdi's body was carried off a beach in Turkey, triggering a public outcry in Canada and abroad.

If we were to have a wider array of candidates who represent the needs of American citizens in a realistic way, then we might have more of a genuine debate up there on the podiums about things that are of practical use to Americans.

Canada's Own the Podium program pumped about $110 million into a medal push for the home team.

"I felt I had the podium for about one day," he said.

His team-mates on the podium fell about laughing, but I ask if anyone took offence.