The first was the United States premiere of "One Can't Eat Applause," a powerful, metaphoric dance piece about oppressive societies in general and Latin American dictatorships in particular.
The shadow home secretary, Andy Burnham, who has been a leading figure in the long-running campaign for the truth about Hillsborough to be revealed, responded with a powerful speech, greeted with applause by MPs, condemning the culture of South Yorkshire police.
On the D.C. Circuit, Scalia built a conservative record, while winning applause in legal circles for powerful, witty legal writing, which was often critical of the Supreme Court precedents he felt bound as a lower-court judge to follow.
The crowd around him broke into applause, and many of the country's most powerful men bent to kiss his hand.
When private health-maintenance firms grew more powerful, Mr Clinton's efforts to regulate them drew popular applause.For the most part, these cycles are inevitable, and not especially worrying.
A substantial and powerful portion of the conservative electorate are pretty happy about this; the applause John Boehner received from his colleagues at the word "shutdown" made that pretty clear.
In unprecedented scenes in the House of Commons, the Shadow Foreign Secretary received rapturous applause from MPs from across the House as he made a powerful speech explaining why he disagreed with his leader.
Lamar's rage is all the more powerful in that it is delivered with ice-cool, forensic precision; when he leaves, the applause is tumultuous.
Applause filled the Waldorf-Astoria ballroom as a parade of 70 of New York's most powerful people strode onto the dais at the Al Smith Foundation dinner on Thursday night.
He explained that Clarkson's powerful rendition "literally stopped the show for almost 30 seconds because the audience erupted in such wild applause".
