Sentence examples for rostrum for from inspiring English sources
At least he was on the rostrum for the medal ceremony in Beijing, like I was when I got the bronze in LA.
Mr. McGovern's organization was so disorganized that by the time he went to the convention rostrum for his acceptance speech, it was nearly 3 a.m.
Even Monday night's trickiest moment, when Colin L. Powell chided his fellow Republicans from the convention's rostrum for opposition to affirmative action, caused little stir on White Oak Circle.
When an MP of the ruling Justice and Development party (AKP) attacked her from the parliamentary rostrum for "smiling too much", Pavey suggested he should read Umberto Eco's In the Name of the Rose.
"When you step on to the rostrum for 'Das Rheingold'," Sir Georg Solti said some 20 years ago, "you look at your hand, knowing that it will not stop for two-and-a-half hours.
This week, after stepping up to the rostrum for the first time to speak for Europe as prime minister of the country that will hold the EU's presidency for the next six months, he surpassed even his own standards of crass buffoonery: he likened a German MEP, who had the temerity to question Mr Berlusconi's legal entanglements, to a Nazi concentration-camp commander.
With Bottas forced to retire and Raikkonen's Ferrari damaged, Perez reassumed the position and came home for a fantastic rostrum finish for the team.
Auctioneer Is Back Simon de Pury, the former chairman of Sotheby's in Europe, who was one of the company's most visible auctioneers before his resignation three years ago, is returning to the rostrum -- for Phillips.
Pennington, the new face of the team, was at a rostrum talking for the team, talking about its future, which is his future.
Most of China's top leaders were on the rostrum today for Mr. Li's speech and the formal opening of the National People's Congress.
The rostrum accounts for approximately half of the length of the ventral plates and has a shallow anterior indentation similar to that in Waeringopterus [ 54, 55] and Eusarcana [ 56, 57].
