Sentence examples for podium set up from inspiring English sources

There was a podium set up, and the candidate for state representative got up and spoke.

He and his wife rounded up six of their seven children for an endless trek across a verdant lawn to the podium set up for his presidential announcement.

Hundreds of residents clustered before a podium set up by a giant portrait of Mr. Arafat, but his motorcade whisked by behind them.

Many had to scramble to get ready before President Obama walked down the red carpet to a podium set up in the East Room.

"We want our families to be on the farms and ranch," Mr. Bush said from a podium set up amid the 1,600 acres of his property.

On the podium, set up smack in the middle of the Champs-Élysées, the 27-year-old Contador and the 25-year-old Schleck hugged and beamed, showing that adversaries on their bikes could be friends off them.

But Bouton's gaze was fixed on the screen, as the Yankee announcers John Sterling and Michael Kay manned makeshift podiums, set up behind home plate, and began introducing the players.

Except for set-piece speeches, he ignores the podiums set up for him, works with a hand mike and employs a conversational tone, sometimes dropping his voice at the end of a sentence instead of raising it, all of which lends intimacy to his words.

The Mayor's podium was set up across from a locked park paved with concrete.

Before dusk a small stage and podium were set up, ringed by metal police-style barriers and a pretty serious sound system.

There, two elevated podiums were set up in the middle, each manned by a security guard.