Sentence examples for press banquet from inspiring English sources

"ABC doesn't know whether Leo and I had an interview, a walk-through, or a drive-by," Mr. Clinton joked at a press banquet.

Veteran auto journalists may recognize a press banquet Ms. Champa describes at the Zeppelin Museum in Friedrichshafen, Germany, as very similar to an event once held by Maybach, the marque that Mercedes revived but has been phasing out.

Preminger was a master of high-minded ballyhoo — the taboo-breaking story, the battle with obtuse censors, the overflowing press banquet, the chartered plane to Cannes for a screening (those were the days).

Sims, KNX General Manager George Nicholaw and the two striking newswriters were calling a truce for the evening to share honors at the annual Greater Los Angeles Press Club banquet.

Whatever the protesters shouted outside the security cordon, it has become an accepted part of New York's fall season that Ahmadinejad and his retinue arrive for a hoopla of motorcades, talk shows, press conferences and banquets.

After a deal was hammered out over the weekend, the sale was announced at a press conference in a banquet hall of the Rainbow Room in Rockefeller Center.

"We decided that if we're ever in a room with Coach anywhere — a banquet or a press conference or a hotel lobby — and there's liquid there, we're dumping it on him," Holt said.

So his press conference in the Elysée banqueting hall on January 14th turned into a weird attempt to keep the focus on his new policy, ducking the question most people wanted answered.

(One of Lang Lang's daily occupational hazards is that he is forever being handed bouquets: when he arrives at an airport, when he finishes a concert, when he agrees to a press conference, a film screening, a banquet.

One hitch that developed after the press conference and a four-hour banquet honoring Tony and featuring champagne and caviar involved a four-person film crew that has accompanied Tony from California.

We're stuck in the press filing center, generally a sea of banquet tables with chairs and power strips, with strategically placed televisions all around so you can watch the debate — only in far worse conditions than the average voter sitting in his living room.