Sentence examples for serving as a stage from inspiring English sources

JERUSALEM, Nov. 10 — The American-sponsored Middle East peace conference expected by the end of the month looks to be thin on content, mostly serving as a stage to begin formal negotiations on a peace treaty between Israel and the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas.

Besides serving as a stage for new wireless products and services, the CTIA Board has convened to discuss a variety of issues that affect the industry as a whole.

He sees the city as a social landscape serving as a stage on which the lives of New Yorkers are played out.

In particular, Cernat argues, the writer sought to emancipate himself from competing nationalisms, and addressed himself directly to the center of European culture, with Zürich serving as a stage on his way to Paris.

Tresnjak and Dodge have devised an effective production concept, with a full-sized Victorian toy theatre serving as a stage-within-a-stage. (Yes, there are ancestral portraits on the wall in which the faces are replaced by chorus members so they can sing a song).

BP will be paying the bill," Obama said after a Coast Guard briefing in Venice, a Gulf Coast community serving as a staging area for the response.

A lighted platform, which serves as a stage within a stage, also generates sound.

The chorus sits on folding chairs while the soloists perform on a low platform that serves as a stage.

Veda Washington climbed up on the soda crates that served as a stage, and took the microphone.

These landscapes are highly detailed, have strong local colour, and often serve as a stage for genre scenes.

Those steps, an architectural reference to theater's classical origins, lead to an open, semicircular winter garden, which could also serve as a stage or seating.