Sentence examples for the hemicycle from inspiring English sources

The room, also known as the hemicycle, has been described by the historian Joseph Rykwert as the school's "spiritual center".

A massive 1 billion EUR lobbying campaign by groups representing the food industry saw the bill die on the floor of the hemicycle in the European Parliament.

There are plenty of people who mock the legitimacy of the European Parliament, and plenty more who can think of better ways to pass a morning than tuning in to a session in the hemicycle.

The hemicycle design is a compromise between the different Parliamentary systems.

Specifically, the flag would be present in all meeting rooms (not just the hemicycle) and at all official events.

Having been posted outside the entrance to the hemicycle, members can sign the declaration and if a majority do so it is forwarded to the President and announced to the plenary before being forwarded to the other institutions and formally noted in the minutes.

A few hours before our spat, Romano Prodi had unveiled his new blueprint for the future of Europe in the cavernous "hemicycle" of the European parliament.

The five windows of the choir hemicycle (a semicircular arrangement) relate in various ways to the Virgin Mary.

The arrows and the quasi-hemicycles denote the direction and value contour of DEP force, respectively.

And then there are the hexagons, hemicycles, triangles, and spirals that pervade his late work.

The first non-European pontiff in 1,200 years delivered a sombre and thoughtful, if less than stirring, message to more than 700 MEPs gathered in the parliament's hemicycle in Strasbourg on France's border with Germany.