Sentence examples for speaker's stand from inspiring English sources

An officer had to drag him off what's called the "speaker's stand," a slab in the park inscribed with the First Amendment.

My colleague Michiko Kakutani describes how the singer Mahalia Jackson shouted to Dr. King from the speaker's stand to include it, recalling the passage from past speeches.

Making her way to the speaker's stand before an audience estimated at 30,000, Mrs. Hardin was accompanied by her son Jerald Kirsten, a retired Navy captain.

By the time Blé Goudé, his figure lean and tense, made his way with an armed bodyguard to the tent, and then out across the open dirt to the speaker's stand, the moon was rising over Port-Bouët.

Spanish radio said that a man dressed in the uniform of a lieutenant-colonel approached the speaker's stand, waving a pistol, and seconds later a fusillade of shots was heard.

The scene has been the same at nearly every campaign stop Mr. Nixon has made recently —a small corps of young people, far removed from the speaker's stand, who provided the President a target for his barbs and gave the silent ma jority someone to shout down.

"The House speaker's principled stand collapses as he endorses Mr. Trump for president," the subhead read.

Republican speakers de-emphasized their party's stand on bimetallism and instead championed a protective tariff that promised full employment and industrial growth.

Mr Bercow, the Speaker of the Commons, told Sky News's Stand Up Be Counted campaign that MPs should not be in Parliament "to add to their personal fortune".

Apparently there's a speaker stand accessory as well?

Visitors enter a room to find themselves at a conductor's stand with 12 speakers watching them like a loyal philharmonic group.