He paid fulsome tribute to Labour activists, past leaders, including Tony Blair, and his family, and said the party should be "proud" of all it achieved in power, hailing its "ideals of fairness and justice".
And the good news is that the leaders present conveyed a near feverish excitement about their enhanced powers, hailing the homecoming of public health to local government after years in the wilderness.
Here there are two protagonists instead of one — siblings Sadie and Carter Kane — and their powers hail from gods who are Egyptian rather than Greek.
In 1971, Fred Dutton, a member of the McGovern Commission, published a book called "Changing Sources of Power," which hailed young college-educated idealists as the future of the Party.
Not a single power broker hailed from the nation's largest state -- a state without which no Republican presidential candidate won the presidency in the 20th century.
She dismissed the party's chances of achieving real power, and hailed the Prime Minister's speech pledging an in-out referendum on EU membership as a "game changer".
In March 2009, when Tandja was accused by the opposition of wanting to change the constitution so he could stay in power, Sarkozy hailed the regime's "democracy and stability".
But stardom wasn't enough for Power, who hailed from a theatrical family.
Over the summer, the state-run power company hailed this cluster of villages as the last in Sichuan province to get hooked onto the electrical grid.
Power, 29, hails from Newfoundland and your mom will like him just fine.
