Sentence examples for visiting speakers from inspiring English sources

Plus we don't have strategies; we don't have visiting speakers; we don't have charters and documents.

This was an era when students frequently occupied university buildings and howled down visiting speakers.

A more or less full time, though voluntary, secretary wrote to constituencies offering to arrange for visiting speakers.

The course boasts a healthily diverse programme of visiting speakers from charities and campaigns, including recently a Faslane protestor.

As head of the union, Mr. Kerry regularly dined with visiting speakers and built up a reputation on campus.

They have no right to pass the buck and insist on visiting speakers providing proof of their bona fides – let alone making them pay for it.

Tensions over money, she said, reminded her of the warning from a visiting speaker from Alaska, who said the divorce rate there had skyrocketed after the Exxon Valdez disaster.

To deliver a paper in his seminar was like entering a gladiatorial arena; a score or more of brilliant PhD students and junior faculty vied with each other to see who could destroy the visiting speaker most comprehensively.

You give in, up to a point, and what finally makes it difficult to protest is the quality of the attentiveness of most of your hosts and hostesses, who for every hour of your work as the visiting speaker have spent fifteen hours of hard work in order to make the event successful — and, indeed, to accommodate, up to a point, the speaker himself.

Margaret Thatcher may have declared that there was no such thing as society, but even she would accept the existence of these small societies: the Essex Badger Protection Society, the Furness Family History Society, and other good folk who obey their hon sec's firm request to turn up and applaud a visiting speaker on a cold winter's evening.

An amazing monitor in the reception area displays current searches from all over the world, and I went in some slight fear that they would deliver to the visiting speaker, as a well-meaning but terrifying prize, a list of his last two years of searches.