Sentence examples for procession of speakers from inspiring English sources

They were trumped by a procession of speakers from around the globe seeking the status quo.

There were a long procession of speakers from the military and relatively low-key musical acts and unintentionally subduing speeches from Democratic politicians.

(Following a procession of speakers, Mr. McCain said, "I feel a bit like Zsa Zsa Gabor's fifth husband," who on their wedding night said, "I know what I'm supposed to do but I don't know how to make it interesting").

A procession of speakers including Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee and Rudy Giuliani lashed out at those who had questioned Palin's credentials, deriding "Hollywood celebrities," the "leftwing media," and liberals.

A procession of speakers -- including a former New York City police commissioner, the current mayor of New York and a former terrorism prosecutor -- invoked Mr. Bush's leadership after Sept. 11, 2001, in the city where the attacks took their greatest toll to recount the tragedy that the president's aides view as the linchpin to his re-election.

A3 NATIONAL A12-17; P1-16 G.O.P. Opens Convention With Images of Sept. 11 The Republican Party opened its convention with a procession of speakers praising President Bush's leadership after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks that leveled the World Trade Center.

The graduates sat out on the lawn, fanning themselves in the heat, and Koch and a procession of other speakers — among them a Staten Island Ferry chief — showered them with praise, through a tinny rented public-address system that brought to mind Che Guevara in Vallegrande.

There was a long procession of A-list speakers, but no one anywhere near me could hear or see them.

The speakers were part of a procession of relatives and friends of victims of shootings whom Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg used at a City Hall news conference to urge Washington to strengthen federal gun laws to prevent firearms from falling into the hands of buyers with a history of violence or mental illness.

Like yesterday, some of the most powerful speakers are the 'real people', speaking passionately from the heart, rather than the procession of politicians.

The speeches came in a seven-hour opening session of the 44th Democratic National Convention here in Boston, a long procession of short speeches broken up by intermissions during which delegates danced to rock and old disco blaring from speakers around a sleek, high-tech stage of television screens, mock mahogany and mock marble.