Sentence examples for speakers stand from inspiring English sources

At the People's Climate March, there was no speakers' stand, because there were no speakers.

Soon all the seats reserved for them were filled; what was left of the Israeli team sat up forward, directly in front of the speakers' stand.

By the same convention, when Speakers stand for re-election to parliament, the other big parties do not field candidates against them.

Typically, at such events, the destination is an open-air field or arena featuring an elaborate speakers' stand, with a backstage infrastructure of headquarters tents, satellite vans, and port-a-cans.

There was a sizable crowd, but it was only a fraction of last year's you could move freely toward the speakers' stand at the Lincoln Memorial, and find a short, orderly line at a food cart near the Mall.

The gang was all there: for music, the Dead and all the other bands; on the speakers' stand, Leary, Alpert, and Ginsberg for the hippies, Jerry Rubin and Dick Gregory for the politicos; keeping order, a contingent of Hell's Angels, peacefully pre-Altamont; in the audience, twenty or thirty thousand people, mostly young and colorfully dressed.

The speakers stood at a lectern off to the side, keeping the dais free for Qaddafi.

She and the other speakers stood in front of a banner bearing the names of some of the 600 protesters believed to remain in jail.

Most of the speakers stood up when they spoke, but he sat down, and he talked in this really soft voice about the history of Afghanistan, and how everyone had invaded it starting with the Greeks.

Only a few speakers stood out.Brian Schweitzer, the blue-jeans and bolo-tie-wearing governor of Montana, gave a storming performance, pumping his fists and rousing the crowd to a frenzy of scorn for Big Oil-loving Republicans.

Inside the church, the speakers stood on a raised platform, above a coffin that was open briefly, accompanied by floral arrangements in the shape of a heart and a cross.