Mr. Simon was given the microphone first.
Orbán, barely 26 at the time, was given the microphone.
When I am given the microphone, I am so overcome and so moved by all the people I have met and marched with over the previous few days.
Maria Munir, 20, a politics and international relations student from Watford, was given the microphone during a question and answer session with Obama attended by 500 young people on Saturday in London.
After being presented with several gifts — a personalized guitar, a rocking chair, a crystal replica of his game glove, and a framed copy of his number in Monument Park — and after his current Yankee teammates came out from the dugout and stood in the infield, Rivera was given the microphone.
An elderly woman, Lucille Foster, was given the microphone and began to sing, with a beautiful, powerful voice that rang out through the church: In the land of perfect day, When the mists have rolled away, We will understand it better by and by, By and by.
Live studio audiences are brought in to "ooooh" and "aaaah" at appropriate times, and "real" people are given the microphone to gush about how a dental bleach or a compilation of oldies tunes changed their lives.
And hopefully these voices will be given the microphone more to shift the narrative away from intolerance.
Following a victory over Kevin Randleman, Jackson was given the microphone and started talking directly to Silva, who was sitting at ringside, saying "I want you boy.
One of the young girls in the audience was given the microphone.
