Sentence examples for who was interrupted from inspiring English sources

"It isn't just time for Portland to enter the 21st century — we have some business to make up from the 20th century," said Randy Leonard, the public safety commissioner, who was interrupted several times by shouts from the audience.

"I think it's important that when we move forward we will move forward with a case that is court-ready," said Mr. Orloff, who was interrupted by demonstrators several times as he tried to speak.

In a separate ruling in 2000, the commission again ran into trouble for making peace with a Burlington County developer who was interrupted while building 300 houses on a tract in Evesham where naturalists discovered timber rattlesnakes.

He cited the disruption of a 2012 Edinburgh University talk by Daniel Taub, Israeli ambassador, and the 2010 visit to the Oxford Union of Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon, who was interrupted by shouts of "Slaughter the Jews" in Arabic.

Asked his opinion about the deal, Andreessen — who was interrupted by the clang of a falling tray ("I hope that was not a symbolic sound effect," he joked) — said the deal "eliminates the guesswork about how much [a company is] worth when someone pays $26 billion in cash " for it.

But Dr. Long, who was interrupting her studies to go to Harvard Business School, returned to Rochester in January 2006 to finish her medical degree.

Mr. Ch z, who was interrupting a speech by the Spanish prime minister when the furious king let loose, threatened to review diplomatic and business ties with Spain.

Sometimes, it's not the powerful who are interrupted, but simply someone with a different viewpoint.

One man, who is interrupted while praying at the mosque, tells the invaders that people in Timbuktu use their heads, not guns, to devote themselves to their religion.

In one of the first, "Call Waiting" (1997), several young men and women — black, Asian, Latino — chat on the telephone only to be interrupted by calls from friends, who are interrupted by other friends.

"This is the most intimate interview I've ever done," whispers Adrien Brody, which is exactly the kind of thing you want to hear when you're inches away from an Oscar-winning Hollywood actor who's interrupted his holiday to chat to you.