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"lectern" Definitions
  1. a stand for holding a book, notes, computer, etc. when you are reading in church, giving a talk, etc.

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By the time Murray arrives at campus, the show isn't about his scholarship or his ideas, but rather the circus that follows him from lectern to lectern across the country.
"What an uplifting story," Mr. Cruz said, reaching the lectern.
The candidate smiled and gripped both sides of the lectern.
Advantage to have Presidential Seal on lectern as a candidate.
He remained stoic until Mr. Trump stepped to the lectern.
Standing at the lectern, she gave an uncharacteristically apologetic smile.
The night before Pelosi stepped to a lectern on Sept.
People flip out over bird joining Bernie at the lectern. pic.twitter.
Lydon had the lyrics written out on sheets on a lectern.
The grieving woman steps up to a lectern at the graveside.
After eight minutes, he departed the lectern without taking any questions.
How, in 90 minutes at a lectern, do you do that?
As she stood behind a lectern outside 10 Downing Street, Mrs.
He clutched both ends of the lectern like a flotation device.
Mr. Spicer appeared far more comfortable at the lectern on Monday.
A lectern with microphones and campaign signage had been set up.
Yes, the lectern was driving home Mr. Cuomo's talking point. Mrs.
The stage was equipped with a lectern and a video screen.
PHOENIX — Dabo Swinney stood at the lectern in a suit and tie.
Zakharova stood at the lectern and responded with her usual calm irritation.
A BEARDED SWEDE in a three-piece suit stands at a lectern.
President Obama tried his hand at stand-up comedy beside his lectern.
Hurling a personal insult at Mr. Trump from a White House lectern?
When President Bartlet reached the press room lectern, he scanned the audience.
Aaron approached the lectern in a brown blazer, with a somber expression.
Sister Mary Francis went to the lectern and read from the Bible.
Then, Senator Gustavo Rivera, a Democrat, took his turn at the lectern.
Seconds after Malcolm stepped to the lectern, gunfire rang out, then pandemonium.
Not outside the site, but facing Mr. de Blasio at the lectern.
Mr. McMaster all but said that publicly from the briefing room lectern.
A burly, bearded bodyguard stood next to Mr. Ghosn at the lectern.
"How are you today?" he asked with a smile from the lectern.
The producers of the first debate represented him with an empty lectern.
President Obama stood at the composite-board lectern on the morning of Sept.
Quickly put on the defensive, Bush blinked rapidly and slouched behind the lectern.
Before me, on a short lectern, one of the grey books lay closed.
Once Lisa was finished, four of her supporters took turns at the lectern.
It depicts the president taking press questions, fully naked, from behind the lectern.
Leftwich stepped away from the lectern, grabbed a page of notes, and resumed.
In precise usage, one stands on a podium and leans on a lectern.
In the classroom or at a lectern, Professor Nochlin cut a striking figure.
From behind a courtroom lectern, he questioned the effectiveness of national election law.
I suspect he is as enlightening at the lectern as on the page.
At a Channel 4 debate, his absence was marked by an empty lectern.
The occasion was what you would expect until Mr. Bucha took the lectern.
Lam took her place at a lectern inside the chamber on Wednesday morning.
Within moments of taking the lectern Friday, Mr. Sessions indirectly corrected the record.
Ms. Zhang got to her feet, her face barely visible over the lectern.
Who should he see at the lectern but Thurgood Marshall himself, arguing Brown.
He grins rather maniacally and holds a lectern—inexplicable loot from the church.
"You can't say never," he said to a lawyer at the lectern in December.
Still, when he took to the lectern in the Rose Garden, he was solemn.
Theresa May, Britain's prime minister, danced to the lectern at the Conservative Party conference.
She stops just in front of Trump's chair and lectern and begins her answer.
After reading a few pages at a lectern, DeLillo sat down next to Spiotta.
As Mr. Comey strode to the lectern at the F.B.I. headquarters at 11 a.m.
The shift supervisor—a tall corporal with a slight paunch—stood at a lectern.
As of now, Mr. Trump is not using a traditional lectern model to practice.
He often mislaid his papers on the way to a lectern or a meeting.
" He stood at a lectern bearing a sign that said "NYC Green New Deal.
At Mr. Trump's invitation, Mr. Huber spoke at the lectern for about 40 seconds.
Ms. Pelosi then returned to the lectern, where she continued to rebuke the reporter.
The candidates answered questions for a moment with an empty lectern before she returned.
"The White House hasn't held press briefing in so long that the lectern in the briefing room is quite literally gathering dust," CNN White House reporter Maegan Vazquez tweeted Wednesday, posting a photo of the particles that had collected on the lectern.
A green marble lectern bearing the United Nations emblem sits before a green marble dais.
The temporary assembly hall had a lectern and dais made of faux-marble composite board.
The lawyer at the lectern is the medium through whom they send one another messages.
David Gonnella stood next to Moore at the lectern and called the protester a plant.
Regenvanu stood at a lectern wearing a green tie and glasses, indicting the global community.
And why does the reader's lectern have a secret compartment for snuff and chewing tobacco?
Afterward, Bowles stood at a lectern and used two expletives to describe his halftime charge.
I started writing my speech and didn't stop until I got up to the lectern.
Mr. DeSantis did not take the question well, raising his voice and slamming the lectern.
Mr. Miller was forcibly escorted from the lectern, shouting inaudibly as he was tugged away.
"You don't have to do it their way," he preaches from the garage's makeshift lectern.
After stepping down from the lectern, Trump shook hands with the dignitaries in the audience.
Reines then jokingly grabs Clinton to hug her as she heads toward the debate lectern.
There is a large hole in the middle of the lectern, which James never explains.
There was turbulence even before Trump took the lectern in the lobby of his Manhattan tower.
Once Trump was ready to end, he pointed to the stacks of paper by the lectern.
This is also the first appearance of the "Eagle Toast" lectern, only used for formal occasions.
The trusty, time-honored two-mic rig of Shure SM216s on the presidential lectern was out.
"Members of Congress, the president of the United States," Pelosi announced as Trump reached the lectern.
At the Republican debate here on Thursday night, Fox News didn't put up an empty lectern.
The word "Geritol" appeared above the stage and on the lectern of the host, Jack Barry.
And if it does happen, Chuck D will be somewhere, hopefully at a lectern, feeling vindicated.
"But, the facts are the facts about the city of Chicago," he added, slamming his lectern.
In recent weeks, he has less frequently taken the lectern in the White House press room.
White House deputy secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has also had an increased presence at the lectern.
Spicer, like his boss, routinely uses his lectern to bash the press or knowingly utter falsehoods.
An aide quickly rushed to the lectern with the chart, which was taller than Trump himself.
For that reason, Coach Todd Bowles seethed as he assumed his place behind the lectern afterward.
He spoke at a lectern, surrounded by community leaders, and then invited questions from the press.
But the work, evocative of both a lectern and an altar, is open to multiple readings.
Mr. Schumer said Mr. Trump's eruption was hardly spontaneous, noting the preprinted sign on the lectern.
Clinton onstage at the night's more prominent event, with Mr. Klepper cracking wise at the lectern.
Pence and the other administration officials at the lectern also confirmed they had their temperatures checked.
Three minutes after walking to the lectern, Mr. Roof returned to the defense table, exhaling deeply.
President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan, above at lectern, criticized China for applauding Burkina Faso's move.
" After protesters left, Ms. Hodges returned to the lectern and said, "I will not be resigning.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stepped up to the lectern at the Riverside Church in Manhattan.
To stand at the lectern in a hemicycle is to take the place of a dissected cadaver.
" A lectern in the Oval Office "looks odd," and the mobile carrier T-Mobile's service "is terrible.
Heidi Nelson Cruz stepped to the lectern in a black gown, waiting for the applause to settle.
She probably didn't take the lectern to deliver a stem-winder about the recklessness of commodities speculation.
Trump's daughter Ivanka and first lady Melania Trump then walked up and embraced Trump at the lectern.
At every event, teleprompters are set up beside a lectern with the presidential seal on its front.
Members of the newly formed Problem Solvers Caucus move a lectern during a press conference on Wednesday.
Michael R. Bloomberg bobbed behind his lectern, as if the motion might deliver him somewhere more comfortable.
At 22018:27 P.M. , Bharara stepped out from behind a dark curtain and stood behind the lectern.
With music blaring from concert-sized speakers, the two Bills walked toward the lectern outside City Hall.
Both men are represented by puppets, voiced by the narrator Reginald L. Barnes, standing at a lectern.
He has, clerk-like, enforced Senate procedures and kept the clock for the lawyers at the lectern.
The speeches began, and Ellison moved to the top of a staircase, where a narrow lectern stood.
"Martin stepped up to the lectern/and stepped down on the other side/of history," Wittenstein writes.
Ferencz was 27 when the case began and apparently not tall enough for the lectern without elevation.
A giant red, gold and silver crystal-encrusted stiletto heel accompanied those who spoke at the lectern.
As Mr. Barr prepared to step to a lectern, the center issued an outlook for the day.
"This will be an unusual statement in at least a couple ways," he admitted from the FBI's lectern.
Her tapestry has Prince William of England standing before a lectern addressing a crowd of well-dressed swells.
No, the director walked past all that, straight to the lectern at the other end of the stage.
Over time, Sanders retreated from the lectern, frustrating reporters by ending the long tradition of daily press briefings.
SHERROD BROWN stood before a lectern in downtown Columbus, as gravelly-voiced and rumpled as ever, and celebrated.
Then Kevin Smith took the lectern in Hall H, after the Twilight fest, and spoke truth to powerlessness.
Clinton, at his lectern, responded to that notion vigorously, over 15 angry minutes of shouts, interruptions and retorts.
In the painting, the Virgin Mary is standing at a lectern, her head covered by a lapis veil.
While Sandford was being led away from the casino auditorium, Trump addressed the crowd from behind his lectern.
He swooned back and forth at his lectern and then walked away from it, pretending to lurch forward.
Anderson came to the lectern in her flowing black ensemble and noisily cleared her throat into the microphone.
Standing at the lectern as he does presiding over major sales, Mr. Barker sees the new era firsthand.
She walked to the lectern in Armenia's National Assembly to denounce the crimes committed daily against her community.
Bruno Bruins fell behind the speakers' lectern while taking questions and was then helped up by fellow ministers.
It's always about Trump, or in last week's case, Sean Spicer and his lectern assaults on the press.
A framed photograph of himself at the White House lectern, taken days earlier, was displayed on a mantel.
When he finally approached the lectern, he sounded exactly like numerous other American chiefs who have preceded him.
Instead of walking up to the lectern, he began to greet those he knew in the first row.
As Bolton came to the lectern, the veterans, some of them in wheelchairs, gave him a hero's welcome.
He paused for a sip of water and briefly resumed speaking before he began to slump onto the lectern.
"I repeat," he continued, veering away from his prepared remarks and hitting the wooden lectern to underscore his point.
By Monday, Spicer was donning a darker suit and his lectern in the briefing room had been lowered somewhat.
All the while, Trump gripped his lectern in a sign of clear angst and gulped water from his glass.
Chris Collins Congressman from New York when he steps up to the lectern, we&aposll take you there live.
Keith Ellison (Minn.), was met with a roaring reception when he strode to the lectern shortly before 11 p.m.
A cartoon on June 21st in the New Yorker shows a man standing behind a lectern in the Senate.
At the news conference, they stood together behind a lectern, hoisting signs that read, "We refuse to be divided."
Above the lectern rose an image of the elder Mr. Cuomo, who died last year, chin cupped in hand.
Lilly King also used the pool as a lectern, as one of several swimmers who spoke out against doping.
"I always call him Jimmy," Mr. de Blasio, a Democrat, said while inviting him to the lectern on Tuesday.
Chaos broke out when a woman approached the lectern and took a piece of paper from it, video shows.
Her adult daughters had upended a lectern with a State of Palestine seal for use as a coffee table.
Curry grasped the lectern, then waved his arms to punctuate his points, shaking the candles in front of him.
When McCaskill got to the lectern, she reminded everyone that she was a local girl, originally from the Ozarks.
John Davidson stepped behind a lectern emblazoned with the Rangers logo on Wednesday and got straight to the point.
Spotlights hung from rusty columns; a dozen or so chairs were arrayed before a lectern and a video monitor.
There's a striking promotional image of you at a lectern and all the microphones, which seems a little political.
A microphone and lectern are set up for Bernie Sanders inside an empty room in Burlington, Vermont, March 103.
The chief executive retreated twice from the Legislative Council lectern as pro-democracy lawmakers shouted and demanded her resignation.
He dominated the day as the main presenter, spending more time at the lectern than all six other managers.
Chair Jerome Powell is due to step to the lectern following the Federal Reserve's first policy meeting of 2020.
It began when an opposition member, Aylin Nazliaka, handcuffed herself to the microphone on the lectern as a protest.
Most notably he often could be seen nodding affirmatively at appropriate intervals while Trump was speaking at the lectern.
Even when the reclusive and mute Mueller finally stepped up to the lectern on Wednesday, he was still hiding.
Speeches are often delivered from a central lectern, which encourages people to drone on—so strict time limits are needed.
The angle here also makes Shorten look like the world's smallest man gripping an immense dinner tray of a lectern.
The actual presidential seal was displayed on a lectern where Trump spoke for about 80 minutes to enthusiastic young supporters.
He appeared to hit his forehead on the lectern as he lost his footing and aides rushed to grab him.
Rihanna, clad in a chic gray ensemble, received a plaque before stepping to the lectern to give her acceptance speech.
Dr. Nunez stood behind a lectern, presenting case histories to senior medical examiners, forensic anthropologists, police detectives and medical students.
" Mr. Kaine, at one point pounding the wooden lectern in front of him, said: "I am sick of the shootings.
Then came the scene that launched a thousand memes: Birdie Sanders, landing on the lectern, as the people roared. video
Lena Dunham, who was given the lectern on Tuesday, got it in prime time; Bill de Blasio got rush hour.
When lawyers with the solicitor general's office approached the Supreme Court lectern, they had on average about 25 previous arguments.
Now, when officials find the need to speak to reporters from the space, dust must be cleared from the lectern.
Councilwoman Carlina Rivera, whose district includes the Strand, spoke at the lectern first, arguing in favor of the landmark designation.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders finally held a press briefing after more than 46 days of avoiding the lectern.
A children's choir sang "Silent Night," and a small Christmas tree, decorated with snowflakes, was on display near the lectern.
The result, after dozens of shareholders took a lectern to rail against Mr. Achleitner and other top managers, was mixed.
Spicer sucked up Trump's boldly advertised displeasure with his comportment at the lectern and even the color of his suits.
He spoke on Monday from a lectern bearing a Biden sign, just as if he were on the campaign trail.
He spoke on Monday from a lectern bearing a Biden sign, just as if he were on the campaign trail.
Zoe Lofgren approached the Senate lectern late Thursday with her trial presentation in hand, she paused and did something surprising.
She was even seen filming for the show on the streets of Manhattan on the mobile lectern while impersonating Spicer.
Trump stood at the lectern smiling and shrugging his shoulders, thanking the audience for cheering to drown out the interruptions.
" After the argument, Chief Justice Roberts called Mr. Clement back to the lectern to congratulate him on "a rare milestone.
The governor briefly looked down at the lectern, glanced to the back of the room, and took the next question.
At one point, she flashed a Photoshopped image of Hillary Clinton at the lectern, her forearms scribbled with crib notes.
Mr. Massey and Mr. Faulkner delivered speeches from a lectern and took questions from the audience of several dozen Republicans.
After a lunch break, he went to the courtroom lectern and said he wanted the proceedings to continue without him.
"Some of you have been saying you want to live in biblical times," Mr. Cahn said, pacing behind a lectern.
Three days in, he was already hoarse; his voice at the lectern sounded like a tire rolling through wet gravel.
He was expected to do another teleprompter-and-lectern practice session there on Tuesday, with his aides giving him notes.
The lily, the lectern, God looking down on the scene: the painting features all the standard elements of the familiar subject.
It may well empty out by the time Chief Justice John Roberts invites the Hernandezes' lawyer, Stephen Vladeck, to the lectern.
It would also take him away from the White House lectern, where his performance has been the subject of intense scrutiny.
The candidate said he would have fought the person had he reached the lectern and mimed punching him a few times.
Instead of delivering rousing speeches from behind a lectern, the former congressman has taken to standing on countertops at coffee shops.
Obaid-Chinoy listened as Khwaja introduced her as "the daughter of our country," then walked to a lectern onstage, smiling brightly.
Homeland Security Advisor Tom Bossert manned the lectern for the administration on Wednesday to give an update on the ransomware outbreak.
In the photo above, you can see President Ronald Reagan standing at a lectern in the White House, looking very serious.
Jeb Bush holds a substantial lead over Christie, so a fifth-place finish for Bush would also secure him a lectern.
At the start of a recent tour, Mr. Mezhburd, 69, leaned into his bar like a professor resting on a lectern.
Mr. Trump asked Mr. Dershowitz to come to the lectern at a Hanukkah ceremony at the White House on Wednesday afternoon.
As Girardi prepared to leave the lectern when the news conference was over, he nearly tripped, lurching forward before catching himself.
Lee Sunday Evans directs this hurtling comedy, which argues that a woman's place is at the lectern and in the revolution.
One Kennedy supporter marched to the lectern to scream at a Carter operative when credentials for Kennedy supporters failed to arrive.
One Kennedy supporter marched to the lectern to scream at a Carter operative when credentials for Kennedy supporters failed to arrive.
When it was his turn to talk, he grabbed the mike, bounded past the lectern, and stood close to the crowd.
But when Obama decided that he'd rather stand behind a lectern during the first debate, and Romney agreed, the commission caved.
Gabby Giffords, who was wounded in a shooting in 2011, from the same House lectern four years ago, she began tearing up.
Another Trump rally was undercut when a member of the crowd behind the lectern began reading a copy of Claudia Rankine's Citizen.
That left Poroshenko to speak on his own for 45 minutes while standing next to an empty lectern for his political opponent.
After Mr Stewart's rough turn at the lectern, John Connell, the lawyer for The Slants, might have thought he'd enjoy smoother sailing.
"There is nothing compassionate about the failure to enforce immigration laws," Sessions said from behind a lectern at the Department of Justice.
" The ACLU's Cole had the last word, in his rebuttal at the lectern: "Interpreting a statute is not depriving the democratic process.
Sanders has been Spicer's stand-in at the lectern on several occasions and would likely be considered a potential successor to Spicer.
His on-camera return to the lectern comes as frustrations about press access at the White House have come to a head.
"I think there is blame on both sides," he said from a lectern in front of the elevator bank at Trump Tower.
There have also been reports that Johnson will ditch the lectern which prime ministers usually use when speaking outside 10 Downing Street.
"They don't know who they're dealing with," the president continued, hitting the side of his lectern as members of the crowd cheered.
Standing in front of the audience, her expression set between a smirk and a scowl, she clutched the lectern with one hand.
Over the past week, as President Donald Trump's top officials came to the lectern to give their updates, they first gave thanks.
She took papers from the lectern, and as she walked away, Mr. Wintrich grabbed her and tried to take the papers back.
Kelly, who had long avoided discussing his loss in detail, confirmed as much from the lectern of the White House briefing room.
Kingsbury, the police chief, read from a statement while fumbling with a thicket of microphones piled onto the lectern by visiting reporters.
So for Garber, who stood at the lectern in Nashville, the latest warm reception seemed as much a validation as an opportunity.
Putting Mr. Sessions behind a White House lectern "shows a lack of respect for the independence of the prosecutor," Mr. Gurulé said.
With Mr. Trump in charge, and his press secretary, Sean Spicer, at the lectern, the briefings have veered into more epistemological territory.
Mr. Spicer was back at the lectern after a few days' absence for what he described as previously assigned Navy Reserve duty.
From the beginning, when an apprehensive America wondered what was ahead, you stood behind the lectern at the White House and lied.
For the fifth televised Democratic debate, broadcast from Georgia, ten candidates lined up dutifully on stage, each behind a dazzlingly-lit lectern.
He stood behind a lectern at a formal news conference and was asked about an endorsement from the white supremacist David Duke.
In fact we often didn't see gestures or full gestures – and Trump leaning on his lectern – until the two-camera format was abandoned.
Melissa McCarthy, costumed as Sean Spicer, was riding her motorized White House lectern around the street in front of the network's offices. Why?
Dubya delivered an incredibly emotional tribute to his dad, which ended with him choking up and having to step back from the lectern.
After checking under his lectern and coming up empty-handed, Trump was directed to a small table nearby stocked with Fiji water bottles.
The day after the controversial decision was announced, it was Sanders and not Spicer who took the White House press lectern for questions.
" Bush, who gave his father's casket a small pat as he crossed to the lectern, said Bush Sr. knew how to "die young.
" Maddow showed Ernst at a lectern, saying, "I have a beautiful little Smith & Wesson 22017-millimetre, and it goes with me virtually everywhere.
"There is no deal," the Senate Democratic leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, said at a news conference, thumping his hand on the lectern.
" Standing at the lectern, Trump imitated the holding of a sign and asked if the crowd had seen the ones that say "resist.
First, Ronald (Lefty) Leftwich, for Norfolk, came to the lectern, without notes, and, in an otherwise flawless recitation, stumbled, and forgot a line.
Another cover from March of last year, also drawn by Blitt, shows Trump nude behind a lectern while taking questions from the media.
Monday: Reporters spot Seddique Mateen, the eccentric father of the Orlando nightclub shooter, sitting behind Hillary Clinton's lectern at an event in Florida.
Jim Jones, pastor of the Blazing Grace Church here, approached the lectern at City Hall, he was holding a copy of the Quran.
Scaramucci said he would leave briefing duties to Sanders, but his turn behind the lectern stirred speculation he could make some return appearances.
When the president took the lectern — "I don't dare move my hands," he said — he thanked Mr. Carvey for visiting the White House.
In the moment that Al Gore approached the lectern in the House chamber and C-Span went live, what changed in American politics?
Reading from a lectern onstage, she narrates the first half of this show, a retrospective of her first seven years of making dances.
He was so skilled at his presentations that colleagues were sometimes surprised to see his hands shake before he stepped to the lectern.
Instead of standing stiffly behind a lectern, Ms. Bernier put on dramatic evening performances like scenes from a one-woman show on Broadway.
After he briefly explained the Journal piece, he stepped away from the lectern to give his supporters time to jeer at the report.
The lectern was lowered to give off a more commanding look, and he donned a dark suit like most of his predecessors have.
"This will be the largest audience to witness the Emmys — period," Spicer told the crowd from a mock White House briefing room lectern.
"We are taping today, and Alex is here and behind his lectern as scheduled," a spokeswoman for the beloved quiz show said Tuesday.
At least Trump walked up to the lectern to announce Gorsuch punctually, and at least he ceded the microphone promptly to his nominee.
Every seat in the church's modest sanctuary was filled when Smith took the lectern for the first of three readings in 24 hours.
The post goes viral, and Maggie's neighbors suddenly have an object for their anger in the professor who was asleep at the lectern.
LITTLE ROCK — One by one, the speakers at the anti-death-penalty rally took a turn behind the lectern on the Capitol steps.
But soon, he, too, was at the lectern on Friday, after a clap on the shoulder from his friend, the actor Johnny Depp.
From the lectern, he told the congregation about all the ways that Jesus calls us away from the life we think we want.
Stepping down from the lectern, Mr. Bloomberg struck up a conversation with two women before either had a chance to request a picture.
Three days after the missile test, Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, interrupted his daily briefing and invited Flynn to the lectern.
Trump invited Cohn to the lectern, saying his chief economic adviser was pleased with the passage of the GOP tax bill last month.
Onscreen, she appeared in a tasteful black dress at the opening of her 2003 exhibition in Hamburg, Germany, making remarks from a lectern.
Trump invited Cohn to the lectern, saying his chief economic adviser was pleased with the passage of the GOP tax bill last month.
"We are taping today, and Alex is here and behind his lectern as scheduled," a spokeswoman for the beloved quiz show told me.
The president squeezed through the tightly packed audience, stood before a lectern, and gave a brief, reassuring speech before hundreds of smiling onlookers.
"The bad news is you can't get into the other room," he said as he stepped onto a makeshift stage without a lectern.
"They wanted me to walk up and go like this," Trump said before briefly walking away from his lectern and shadowboxing an imaginary Putin.
At the 1964 Democratic National Convention, in Atlantic City, he had received a twenty-two-minute standing ovation just by appearing at the lectern.
The first lawyer due to step up the lectern on Monday will be Thomas Saunders of the Wilmer Hale law firm, representing the contractor.
He had changed ties, from royal blue to navy and white stripes, but he gripped the lectern with both hands, as if for support.
In 2012, he complained on Twitter about the marble behind the speaker's lectern at the General Assembly hall, claiming he could build it better.
Fortunately, President Trump's lectern had a literal sign taped to it during an impromptu press conference following a meeting between Trump and Democratic leadership.
Yes. "For a business owner, it's foolish not to have Pride 'cause it brings business downtown," she said when she stood at the lectern.
The police interviewed the woman who had taken the papers off the lectern, but Ms. Reitz said no other arrests were made on Tuesday.
Still, when Mr. Schneiderman held his news conference on Monday, he spoke at a lectern with the words "Justice for Victims" written across it.
It was not a typical classroom: There were 14 tables, with a lectern at the front of the room and doors at either end.
News analysis LONDON — Theresa May approached the lectern at No. 10 Downing Street late on Wednesday evening, at a perilous moment for the country.
She asked for advice on how to stop her hands from moving as she talked — would it look O.K. if she clutched the lectern?
No, not Melissa McCarthy, who famously portrayed him on "Saturday Night Live" — it was the real Sean Spicer, rolling out a mock pressroom lectern.
Instead, Trump has taken to the White House lectern to boast that he has invoked the 1950 Defense Production Act, which is technically true.
On raceday, the impersonator arrived on the infield in a helicopter and addressed the crowd from behind a lectern before posing for innumerable selfies.
Scaramucci said Sanders will be behind the lectern, but that does not mean he will not have tips for how to wrangle the press.
Mr. Johnson's speech was delivered late in the afternoon at the lectern customarily wheeled out in front of Downing Street for prime ministerial statements.
Mr. de Blasio spoke from a lectern adorned with a hashtag — #AlwaysNewYork — meant to inspire tales of solidarity and pride in New York values.
The main difference this time: the lectern at center stage, which now had a big, bold "USA" where the name "TRUMP" used to be.
A few hours later, Lam was standing behind a lectern amid hundreds of reporters, photographers and news cameras at the Hong Kong Legislative Council.
Her life was supposed to take place behind the lectern, not beside it, hoisting the hand of the man who'd just got the votes.
Still, when Mr. Schneiderman held his news conference on Monday, he spoke at a lectern with the words "Justice for Victims" written across it.
Colbert played a clip of the president abruptly pausing during his speech Wednesday at the White House and looking under his lectern for water.
Standing at a lectern at the State Department, the notoriously press-shy Tillerson called the report "erroneous" and expressed frustration with the Washington media.
About 10 minutes into his remarks, the president paused and looked underneath his lectern for a bottle of water but there was none there.
There were moments when Ms. Newman's voice quavered and her eyes welled up with tears as she stood behind a lectern in the courtroom.
He briefly resumed speaking -- touting the success of the Affordable Care Act and MNSure, the state's health care marketplace -- before he slumped onto the lectern.
Use could mean processions, presentation to figures who might swear an oath on the object, reading at a lectern, and ceremonial exhibition on an altar.
While Pruitt was standing at the lectern, the EPA was reportedly offering buyouts to longtime employees to cut its workforce of scientists and policy specialists.
Justice Alito needled the lawyers opposing the Texas law with nearly three dozen nit-picking questions throughout their 45 minutes at the lectern last week.
There's four people, then Sarah Huckabee Sanders, deputy press secretary, and a man behind her who slides the door shut as she takes the lectern.
Thursday night's tweet comes the same day his chief of staff John Kelly took to the White House press briefing room lectern to defend Trump.
Clinton, turned from the lectern to face the presumptive Democratic nominee, declaring that she "has never backed down" from fighting for the middle class, Mrs.
But on Monday evening, the inmates were finally treated to some proper decorum when two of their own took to the lectern for a debate.
He has also referred to McCarthy's tendency, when dressed as Spicer, to drive a motorized lectern rapidly toward a reporter who asks an aggravating question.
Republican National Committee spokesman Sean Spicer was asked by CNN's Wolf Blitzer about leaving an empty lectern on stage to draw attention to Trump's absence.
Sometimes compositions are resolved with a strong figurative element like a green mushroom or, in the case of "July," what looks like a distorted lectern.
More than three months — 95 days — have passed since the last time Ms. Sanders took to the lectern in the James S. Brady Briefing Room.
She flubbed the start of her campaign for a Senate seat, appearing flummoxed at the lectern after a page went missing from her prepared speech.
As a procession of speeches and toasts lauded her life's work, Dr. Uhlenbeck stood to the side of the lectern and listened, eyes mostly closed.
He has also told her, before she heads out to the lectern in the briefing room, that he is "going to grade" her televised performances.
"If I spout off talking points, then nobody pays attention," she said when I asked why she so often invokes her family at the lectern.
Jeff Flake sat in the front row — to keep boredom from settling in as lawyer after lawyer stood at the lectern to discuss trial rules.
"From the beginning, when an apprehensive America wondered what was ahead, you stood behind the lectern at the White House and lied," the paper concluded.
At rehearsal on a recent afternoon, a table and a lectern sat onstage, mirroring those in the movie, which streamed on screens behind the actors.
Sheri A. Dillon Ms. Dillon seemed out of place when she spoke at a too-large lectern in the lobby of Trump Tower on Jan.
McCarthy played Spicer as a revved-up, aggressive White House spokesman who fired a water gun at journalists and piloted a moving briefing room lectern.
"I support Mayor Pete," Michael Patton, a local pastor and head of South Bend's NAACP chapter, said from the lectern, shortly before McBride's turn came.
At the overpass, jeeploads of riot police fanned out, and workmen set up a red carpet and a lectern with the Presidential seal on it.
Twelve weeks after surgery, Ginsburg has been back on the bench for a while now, often firing the first question to advocates at the lectern.
"That's OK."  A person in the room pointed Trump to a table next to his lectern with a bottle of Fiji water sitting on it.
Only hours after announcing her candidacy in January on "Good Morning America," Harris stood at a lectern at Howard where she took questions from reporters.
The heads are turned toward a figure at a lectern pointing to what is most likely a blackboard, but also looks like an abstract painting.
" From her lectern beside Trump's, May told reporters that in their private Oval Office talks she and Trump agreed on an "unshakable commitment to this alliance.
Afterward, Vikings Coach Mike Zimmer, his face an unsightly blotch of frostbite-like pink and red, stood at the lectern and peered out through watery eyes.
In Ms Ginsburg's inaugural trip to the lectern for Frontiero v Richardson, she spoke more than 1,200 words, in nearly 11 minutes, without a single interruption.
Standing behind a lectern, and occasionally shifting to a desk or easy chair, Moore admits at the outset that he has never voted for either Clinton.
Our first time to hear directly from this congressman and we will bring it to you live as he steps up to the lectern stay close.
Some of them are even considering a run as a third party candidate, so keep an out for another lectern on the stage next time around.
"OK, everybody, I got to get to 'Star Wars,' " Obama said from the lectern as he waved off more questions in the White House briefing room.
Snow, who was in his 60s, leaned forward at the lectern, speaking in his genial Texas drawl about blindfolded skulls and bodies dumped in clandestine graves.
Inside the hall, delegates milled around and kept speaking even as prominent Republicans took the lectern — among them Paul D. Ryan, the speaker of the House.
A staff member places the presidential seal on the lectern prior to Trump's triumphant speech on the passage of the Republican tax reform legislation on Thursday.
But when I chatted with scientists during a lunch break, they told me the chiding was expected — after all, this was Cliff Mass at the lectern.
" Trump delivered his speech in front of six decorated Christmas trees and behind a lectern with a sign plastered to the front stating "Merry Christmas USA.
To be Murray means standing behind a lectern at a news conference in his socks, with his cap backward and a towel draped around his neck.
Unfortunately, the lectern was sized for the president, who was eight inches taller than the queen, and her face was hidden behind a cluster of microphones.
Out of the 170 elected state lawmakers that controlled the state's minimum wage, only five were in their seats as an organizer stepped to the lectern.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her predecessor, Sean Spicer, might be simultaneously the most famous and infamous press secretaries ever to stand at the White House lectern.
Standing behind the lectern, Trump likened the State Department as "the Deep State Department," when Fauci appeared to make some facial gestures and covered his face.
The overarching theme is the difference between learned and innate behaviors, but although she sometimes speaks from behind a lectern, Ms. Rossellini is anything but academic.
McMaster, whose book "Dereliction of Duty" is expressly about talking truth to power, found himself at a lectern doing damage control for his damage-prone boss.
While Solomon and Waldron roamed the stage, occasionally glancing at notes on screens at their feet, Scherr spoke in measured tones from behind a translucent lectern.
When the five took the stage and arranged behind a lectern that read "Keep Iowa Great," the surrogates leaped to their feet and broke into applause.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer — who has had a bumpy tenure behind the lectern — has been pulling double-duty and working both high-pressure jobs.
The president himself this morning retweeted a post where Bloomberg was shrunken to the point where he could hardly see over the top of a lectern.
Clad in a dark gray pinstripe suit with a polka dot handkerchief in the pocket, Stone stood at a lectern as the judge delivered the sentence.
In recent weeks, Mr. Spicer was spending less time at the lectern, often replaced by Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who was promoted on Friday to succeed him.
Representative Adam B. Schiff of California, the lead House prosecutor, took the lectern in the chamber as senators sat silently preparing to weigh Mr. Trump's fate.
Now, he says, Middlebury may prove an "inflection point" — where colleges yield the lectern to intolerant liberals, hastening a bastion of free thought toward its demise.
At his first formal White House briefing on Monday, Spicer was asked by a reporter if he intended to always tell the truth from the lectern.
At 1 o'clock, inside a large white tent erected on the school blacktop, Benioff approached the lectern, a phalanx of mayors and other VIPs behind him.
But some scholars see in him a man who used the presidency not just as a bully pulpit but also as something of a historian's lectern.
"Will you tell Putin to stay out of U.S. elections?" the correspondent asked in a booming voice as Mr. Trump was walking away from the lectern.
Over 50 years ago, an astonished Wallace had singled him out from the lectern at Harvard, having discovered that the Alabama rebel had followed him north.
A former appellate advocate who stood 251 times at the court lectern before becoming a judge, Roberts is a sharp questioner during the hour-long argument sessions.
This year, in Atlanta, as Evans took to the lectern, protesters shouted "Trust black women" and "Support black women" as Evans attempted, unsuccessfully, to address the audience.
Another fun thing about the Spicey-mobile spottings in Midtown on Friday is that we get a close up look at what's going on behind the lectern.
What makes the current period unique is the similarity between what minorities experience in their communities and the things Trump says from the lectern at his rallies.
As Sanders was at the lectern, challenging the then-incumbent mayor, "I sat in the second row and I fell in love with Bernie's ideas," Jane recalls.
The packed courtroom burst into applause when Judge Nushin G. Sayfie told Carmen Brown, the first person called to the lectern, that she was granting her motion.
"We see you," Ms. Lynch said this month, addressing transgender people from a Justice Department lectern where she announced the case pushing back against North Carolina's law.
The Associated Press reported Friday that the man, who appeared to be a Trump supporter, threw the phone at the lectern as Trump approached the other side.
The Virgin Mary's hands are raised, with the right palm facing down, angled above the lectern, while her left hand clasps the sides of the veil together.
"The White House hasn't held press briefing in so long that the lectern in the briefing room is quite literally gathering dust," Vazquez tweeted on May 17.
"Not sure what you say," Michael R. Bloomberg began, when his turn came on Wednesday, shrugging from the lectern at a Sheraton event hall in Midtown Manhattan.
The Kentucky Republican was furious -- red faced, banging the lectern in front of him with his finger to make a point and raising his voice several times.
The most likely time to see the Trump Lean™ is right before he's announced into the chamber, or before he turns to stand at the lectern.
SHEBERGHAN, Afghanistan — The top commander of the Islamic State in northern Afghanistan stood behind a lectern decorated with the shield of the Afghan government's powerful intelligence agency.
On a July morning, Mr. Zimmern stepped to a lectern in a cinder-block hall, shoved his hands into his jeans pockets and launched into his story.
"We have been made aware of a situation," said the first speaker, an older man with a scraggly white beard who had hobbled up to the lectern.
So it was quite stunning to see the president of the United States step up to the lectern to declare himself the existential threat to the planet.
He called Mr. Donohue to the lectern to read from the book and then announced that Mr. Donohue would be signing books and selling them for $19673.
But persuading trial lawyers to cede a once-in-a-lifetime turn at the Supreme Court lectern to a fancy appellate lawyer is easier said than done.
Trump came out to his normal song, "God Bless the USA," but walked the stage for the entire song, posing for photos before he took the lectern.
"Spicey out," the show tweeted along with a video showing clips of McCarthy running into reporters with her mobile lectern and using props during her exaggerated impersonations.
The piece wrapped with McCarthy leaving the White House briefing room while clutching the mobile lectern, and with Aidy Bryant portraying incoming press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi returned to the lectern after finishing her weekly press briefing on Thursday to address a reporter who asked whether she hates President Trump.
"If I could choose my seatmate, it would be Dr. Brzezinski," Mr. Carter said from the lectern on Friday, describing his strategy for long trips as president.
But it's worth remembering there's a long history of bitterness between Ryan and both Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, who's seated next to Ryan behind the lectern.
" Netherton, 32, shouted as one Democrat after another stood at the lectern and celebrated Clinton as "the next president of the United States" and "the first woman president.
Lindsey Graham, Trump's golf partner who had vigorously criticized his friend's policy, was actually at the lectern in the White House briefing room on Sunday talking to reporters.
Nine GOP senators piled into the Lyndon Baines Johnson Room at the Capitol Monday afternoon to stand behind a lectern and in front of a row of flags.
Then things got still more emotional, as the journalist's parents, John and Diane Foley, stood at a lectern and spoke briefly — and with incredible grace — about their son.
Sure, he could have backed away from Clinton but the area close to the chair and lectern is his space and he has every right to be there.
When it was time for the lesson itself, President Carter stood smiling and spoke without referring to notes, moving to the lectern only to read from the scripture.
Like the lawyers who stood at the lectern and publicly argued before the high court, individual justices often tailored their arguments around the private conference table to Kennedy.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer -- who has had a bumpy tenure behind the lectern -- has been pulling double-duty and working both high-pressure jobs. http://bit.
In May 1991, Queen Elizabeth II, at the start of an official visit, stepped up to a lectern on the White House lawn to deliver a few remarks.
Mr. Pompeo addressed the negotiations on Thursday when he was called to the lectern by Mr. Trump, who was holding a final news conference after the NATO summit.
And she delivered the sermon from the lectern, a little wooden stand set apart from the congregation, not at the pastor's sacred pulpit — the place whence God spoke.
I would not wish to have these stories read from the lectern as a simple matter of course (and they certainly should not be held up as Gospel).
On Long Island, Mr. Cuomo spoke on a stage decorated with balloons, drapery and a lectern to announce the support of a major organization: Everytown for Gun Safety.
Here is Biden, the loyal veep to the most popular figure in the Democratic Party, unable to fill a room without the artful arrangement of chairs and lectern.
We saw a different palette at a lectern in the White House on early Monday afternoon, but it was pure artifice, and muted and unpersuasive because of that.
When a House manager or attorney for the President is giving a presentation at the lectern on the Senate floor, there's a close-up shot of the speaker.
" Ingram was smiling as he spoke at a lectern after the game, Jackson seated to his left wearing a black T-shirt that read, "Nobody Cares Work Harder.
" Alternating between English and Tagalog, and pounding on the lectern, Duterte, it was widely reported, said of Obama, "Son of a whore, I'll curse you at that forum.
"  Moore responded that he saw Sanders give a speech Saturday "that went an hour and a half" and he "didn't use that lectern as a crutch or anything.
But the Anthony Scaramucci I know and admire was not the Anthony Scaramucci who stepped up to the lectern in the White House briefing room on Friday afternoon.
As he has listened to the legal teams at the lectern make their cases, Roberts has leaned back, hands folded, occasionally putting a finger up to his temple.
That silent posture represents a departure from his position at the Supreme Court, where, as he listens to a lawyer at the lectern, he regularly interjects with questions.
Ms. Sanders, in only her second time at the lectern, was smooth and assured under pressure, mixing her answers with a few deft jokes about her daughter's birthday.
I stepped up to that lectern and told the world that although my time in Congress was over, I wasn't done — I was just moving to another battlefield.
The news networks have taken to teasing the briefing for viewers, broadcasting an empty lectern in the corner of the screen in the minutes before Mr. Spicer arrives.
Seen on TV, President Nursultan Nazarbayev looked like any other visiting world leader, standing a few feet away from Trump at a lectern, his country's flag behind him.
Sean Spicer, Mr. Trump's press secretary, later cited Mr. Napolitano's claim from the White House lectern, infuriating British officials and prompting Fox News to disavow Mr. Napolitano's comments.
Instead of holding a traditional primary-night party, his campaign set up a lectern and teleprompters at the National Constitution Center so he could address the news media.
DRESSED in a leather jacket and a shoelace-thin tie, or with Armani trousers flapping around his trainers, Eric Griffiths would begin as soon as he reached the lectern.
POTUS's world shrinks, as we're back in the Oval Office on February 3623th for Jeff Sessions' swearing-in, with a mini-Goose lectern plopped in front of Andrew Jackson.
Mr Clement approached the lectern first in the second case: a challenge to two congressional districts in North Carolina that a federal court had found to violate the constitution.
"The privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world poses a grave responsibility," Jackson said into his microphone on the lectern.
That issue formed the majority of Smith's time at the lectern, with Smith arguing that the state not receiving the notice back tells "nothing" about whether the person moved.
As the two candidates banter over who should speak first, Trump walks towards the front of the stage, away from the questioner and away from his chair and lectern.
In February of 2009, during his second month in office, President Barack Obama stepped up to the lectern to deliver his first speech to a joint session of Congress.
Long criticized for not giving regular press conferences, Clinton then stood at a lectern and fielded questions from her traveling press corps for the second time in a week.
"It's only if you have great public services that you can have a successful market economy," said Mr. Johnson, banging his fists on a lectern to underscore the point.
We see Cornell William Brooks, then the president of the N.A.A.C.P., stand at a lectern, wearing a suit, and address a gathering in the Chaifetz Arena, in St. Louis.
After he approached her lectern with a written pledge to abstain from spending so-called soft money in the campaign, her aides cast his move as inappropriate, even bullying.
Peters told POLITICO after the session that it was a bit strange to be arguing into a phone at his Arlington, Va., home rather than from a courtroom lectern.
Robert S. Mueller III delivered a starkly different presentation on Wednesday from the same lectern, saying that charging a sitting president was never an option, no matter the evidence.
"This is a defense of our country," Mr. Trump declared from a lectern in the Roosevelt Room before leaving the White House to attend a campaign rally in Missouri.
The way people tweet reminds me of how some people talk when they step up to a lectern at City Council meetings — looking for applause more than conveying information.
Among the guidelines was a restriction of one question per reporter, with follow-ups allowed at the discretion of the president or the White House official at the lectern.
Roosevelt's practice paid off at the convention, where he made it to the lectern, gripping it the way he had gripped his son's arm and flashing a triumphant smile.
As Mayweather addressed the news media behind a lectern in the ring more than an hour after the final punch, McGregor sauntered in, sipping whiskey from a plastic cup.
Immediately after Trump's State of the Union address on Tuesday night, Pelosi stood and emphatically ripped a copy of his speech in half, tossing it back on the lectern.
"President, what I am here to do today is to offer you the hand of Barrick," the CEO added, moving from the lectern to shake President John Magufulis hand.
Shah's first formal briefing from the White House lectern also comes as financial markets continue to swing wildly, and on Thursday, fell more than 500 points by early afternoon.
He was arrested after a woman attending the event appeared to grab his speech from a lectern before racing off, according to several cellphone video posted on social media.
Rather than take a seat alongside Goodell while Belichick went to the lectern, Brady left the room — leaving Goodell sitting alone off to the side as Belichick answered questions.
By the time he strode to a lectern in the governor's mansion on Saturday afternoon, with portraits of Virginia's founding fathers behind each shoulder, Mr. Northam was increasingly isolated.
Early in her address to graduating Yale students at Sunday&aposs Class Day, Hillary Clinton reached behind the lectern, pulled out a traditional Russian ushanka hat, and held it aloft.
"I was standing by my lectern, and all of a sudden from nowhere, she walks right in front of me," Trump told Fox News's Bill O'Reilly later in the week.
We are waiting and we&aposve just gotten word that we are closer now with Representative Chris Collins coming to the lectern, accused today in an indictment of insider trading.
At the convention in Cleveland, "Lock her up!" and "Build that wall!" were popular all through the arena, and the phrase "radical Islam" was uttered from the lectern 41 times.
Mets 3, Brewers 2 Terry Collins pounded his forefinger against the tabletop that served as a lectern during his news conference Friday afternoon and curled his lip into a sneer.
" They booed, loudly, and screamed "fair elections" as Ms. Wasserman Schultz took the lectern and said: "It is so wonderful to be able to be here with my home state.
For Mr. Trump, who stood just to the side of the lectern as Mr. Farage spoke, repeatedly nodding, smiling and applauding, the Brexit vote presented a parallel for his campaign.
Spicer was thrust into the spotlight last weekend when he delivered a combative first statement behind the White House lectern blasting news organizations for their coverage of Trump's inaugural crowds.
It was the senator's idea to suspend the security clearances of Mr. Trump's political enemies, an idea embraced at the lectern by the White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
Just moments before, Conrad Kaczmarek, Ms. Kaczmarek's brother, had stepped up to the lectern to read the words of Justice Kennedy, written as the final paragraph of the Obergefell v.
Wearing a bright tangerine coat with a matching hat, Queen Elizabeth II stepped up to a glass lectern, removed a long black glove and gently tapped "share" on an iPad.
He stymied the United States during the Bay of Pigs invasion, lectured at a United Nations lectern and preached a new world order dominated by those once marginalized by superpowers.
I scrolled in further and saw my annual stations: the parking lot, the chapel, the pews just left of the lectern and finally the columbarium to visit my dad's remains.
This one was no different: He sidled up to a makeshift lectern made out of a water jug, stared straight into a camera and delivered an unapologetic seven-minute rant.
Reading from opposition research on his lectern, Mr. Moore targeted Mr. Strange for his career as a Washington lobbyist, noting that he once owned a pricey condominium on Pennsylvania Avenue.
Mr. Trump's speech, delivered from behind a lectern with a presidential seal, was billed as an official White House event and his travel was not paid for by his campaign.
When Pressley went to the lectern to introduce Lee, she started out talking about how she herself had once been a hotel worker in a venue just like this one.
He spoke at the lectern emblazoned with a White House logo for just more than two minutes and ignored the hail of questions shouted at him as he walked away.
Kushner insisted that all of his actions during the campaign and the transition had been "proper," first in a written statement and later at a lectern outside the West Wing.
Anthony Scaramucci, the just-named communications director, was dominating the lectern that Ms. Sanders had inherited only hours earlier, professing his love — 20 times — for President Trump and his administration.
Standing at a lectern in a Midtown Manhattan hotel on Wednesday, the rapper and actor Ice Cube lamented seeing a favorite N.B.A. player retire before his abilities had completely faded.
As Trump finally walked away from his lectern, he stopped to answer one more shouted question: Would be plan to visit Charlottesville, the college town ravaged by the hate-filled clashes?
His clearest moment came at his last moment at the lectern: "writing a cheque that says 'payable to Trinity Lutheran Church' ought to be on the other side of the line".
At the 21-minute mark, Mayor Longwell again tried to coax Lisa away from the lectern, offering her face-to-face time in his office if she would yield the floor.
Aramazd Andressian Sr. looked forward or down as people, including the boy's mother, stood at a lectern behind him and made emotional statements imploring the judge to give the maximum sentence.
Overall, women account for nearly 60 percent of the speakers at the 25 schools that have the largest endowments and traditionally carry the clout to draw big names to the lectern.
He could very well allude to that keynote from the lectern tonight, no doubt contrasting, as he likes to do, his black hair of then with the deep gray of now.
Breaking with his usual speech protocol, the president invited five families to come to the lectern and describe their tax savings, and thank the president for his work on their behalf.
"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard," he thundered memorably from the lectern.
His presentation, delivered from a lectern in Biden's home against a backdrop of bookshelves, was a substantive but stiff reiteration of all he has already said about the crisis so far.
Protesters seated near the back of Howard's auditorium stood with raised fists and began singing "We Shall not be Moved" as Comey stepped to the lectern and thanked the university's president.
"It's great for us to come out here and have a substantive discussion about policies," Mr. Spicer said at the lectern, when asked why Friday's briefing had been taken off-camera.
A raft of friends and family members came to the stage and shared memories of her, speaking from a lectern that was sandwiched between two sprays of pink and purple roses.
Thomas has given many explanations for his singular silence through the years, including that he believes the justices should give the lawyers at the lectern more time to present their cases.
In 2012, Ms. Spencer similarly breezed to the Oscar lectern, collecting the supporting actress statuette for her portrayal of a maid in "The Help," in which she starred with Ms. Davis.
So Mr. Spicer headed to the lectern on Thursday primed for a fight and armed with a stack of news clippings that he read at length to justify the president's claim.
The audience at the event, held at Aiken Technical College in Graniteville, S.C., near the state's western border, was antagonistic from the start, booing audibly as he stepped to the lectern.
Sotomayor seems to be the justice who most tests Roberts as he oversees arguments and tries to ensure that the lawyers at the lectern have a few final uninterrupted minutes for rebuttal.
Instead, it was decided the president should just say what he wanted when he strode up to the lectern in the East Room of the White House shortly after noon on Thursday.
Grande, clad in a black dress and wearing her trademark high-pony, was ushered over to the lectern by Bishop Charles H. Ellis III — who is co-officiating the ceremony with Rev.
Being recognized for her work in her native island Barbados and the charities she has founded over the years, Rihanna took to the ivy league's lectern to deliver a genuinely inspiring speech.
Soon after Trump took his place behind the lectern on the House floor, he turned around to hand Pelosi and Vice President Mike Pence what appeared to be copies of his speech.
" While the Mota incident was isolated and unrelated to the protest movement, Ribeiro took advantage of her time at the lectern to challenge the representatives as they chastised her for her "insults.
A video clip from official statehouse footage showed Dayton pausing to take a sip of water, then slurring his words as he tried to resume his address before slumping at the lectern.
She spoke to her citizens for four minutes, standing at her lectern at 10 Downing Street, using that brief time at such a historic moment more to apportion blame than provide solutions.
Washington (CNN)Supreme Court arguments Thursday on a case involving double jeopardy immediately turned heated, and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was among the most relentless in questioning a lawyer at the lectern.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer used his first appearance behind the White House lectern to slam members of the media for their reporting on the size of Trump's inauguration crowds Friday.
The performance has that modernist aesthetic of clean, spare staging: just the singers on a small, raised platform and Weems at a clear, Lucite lectern, all of them awash in blue light.
At the lectern, she read aloud children's letters to the president, calling attention to Mr. Trump's unsung fans but also running down the clock before journalists had a chance to ask questions.
At the university campus, Raphael Audu Adole, a professor wearing faux crocodile loafers and carrying a laptop tucked under his arm, stepped behind the lectern to explain the roots of male oppression.
That is why L'Esprit du Bauhaus kicks off with a 15th-century sculpted oak lectern from St. Pierre church in Subligny (in the center of France) as an example of cathedral aesthetics.
" Standing at the lectern in front of the packed auditorium, Mr. McAleenan tried to start speaking but was drowned out by chants of: "When immigrants are under attack, what do we do?
He also took the lectern at the White House to announce the U.S. had blamed North Korea for the massive "WannaCry" cyberattack that affected hundreds of thousands of computer across the world.
Such a narrator, standing at the podium to the left of the stage, made faintly visible by the lectern light, would declaim from the start to the finish of a feature film.
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump steps to the lectern to deliver his first State of the Union speech on Tuesday evening amid a myriad of head-spinning events in the nation's capital.
When it was noted to Pederson at a news conference last week that Foles had not lost the last two Decembers (and beyond), Pederson banged the wooden lectern for, you know, luck.
Standing beside the Augusta National clubhouse here late Sunday evening, Spieth could see workers setting up chairs and a lectern for the ceremony that would end with Reed wearing the distinctive green jacket.
Spicer has been a frequent target of criticism for his performance at the White House lectern during daily news briefings, although President Donald Trump has stood by him through a variety of controversies.
But Mr Frost could not give any details on the law itself, and seems not to have remembered to photocopy it in advance of his stint at the lectern at the Supreme Court.
In the hall where Clinton is set to deliver her speech — whether in victory or defeat — supporters sat slumped on the carpet before a stage empty of all but one imposing wooden lectern.
Yet before he steps to his lectern in Shanghai, Mr Xi must preside over a different meeting, a four-day session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party ending on October 31st.
On a stripped-down stage set, Weems stands at a clear lectern, joined by a small Greek chorus of singers, as scenes of confrontations between citizens and the authorities are projected behind them.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Tuesday did not deny reports that he might be leaving his spot behind the lectern as part of a reshuffle of the West Wing communications staff.
Pence was asked by Notre Dame to deliver the speech Sunday at its graduation, but the moment he stepped up to the lectern ... at least 20 students got up headed toward the back.
After a man shouted at her husband and approached his lectern at a New Hampshire rally last month, she leaped from her chair to help others keep the man from getting too close.
"Making baseless accusations of improper contact with Russia or being influenced by Russia against the president is extremely inappropriate," Ms. Sanders said, appearing to read from prepared remarks from the White House lectern.
Some close to him recognize that the lectern-pounding liberalism that Mr. Sanders embraced in 2016 — punctuated with frequent denunciations of the "millionaihs and billionaihs" — could benefit from a new element or two.
Later, from a lectern on the stage, she reiterated her hopes for the start of an emerging fashion industry in the Middle East that could transcend regional borders but be rooted in Qatar.
Stepping to the lectern at the memorial service for Jack Foley, Chuck announces that he intends to honor the departed kingmaker's good-government legacy by cleaning up Albany — starting right then and there.
Live Briefing Leaders from around the globe took the lectern at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday — a particularly big moment for President Trump, who addressed the gathering for the first time.
At the end of Trump's address, Pelosi ripped up a printed copy of his speech and tossed it aside as the president left the lectern to applause from the rest of the chamber.
It's the image that will deck the lecterns from which they speak as they campaign for the right to speak behind a lectern with the Seal of the President of the United States.
Reflecting the importance Booker's team placed on making the debate, they had shifted their entire campaign focus to persuasion in an all-out sprint to net enough polls to earn Booker a lectern.
WASHINGTON — The opportunity to take over behind the White House briefing room lectern would be the apex of a political operative's career in any other presidency, a path to riches, fame and power.
" Judiciary Committee Chair Jerry Nadler (D-NY) returned to the lectern to respond, "I am deeply concerned that any member of the House would spout Russian propaganda on the floor of the House.
Taking the lectern beneath the dome of the restored Reichstag, Vladimir V. Putin soon shifted to German, with a fluency that startled the German lawmakers and a pro-West message that reassured them.
On Tuesday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer did not deny reports that he might be leaving his spot behind the lectern as part of a reshuffle of the West Wing communications staff.
If you're having trouble hearing in a class, for instance, you could place your phone near the lectern while you're sitting a few rows back and listening in on a pair of AirPods.
So while climate change was neglected at the lectern of the House chamber, some in the audience tried to signal to Americans watching at home that it deserves time in the national spotlight.
He told the Washington Post that Biden had "preached away from the storm" by waiting until he was away from the lectern and in front of the press to confirm he was ripping Jackson.
When the same question arose during the California lawyer's stint at the lectern, even Justice Sonia Sotomayor—who had spent most of the hour being sceptical about NIFLA's free-speech claim—appeared to balk.
Chief Justice Roberts was an exception, and he alluded to that fact in April after asking one of the lawyers who had argued the last case of the term to return to the lectern.
Sanders was prepared for the question and read her response from a statement at the lectern: "The memos that Comey leaked were created on an FBI computer while he was the director," Sanders responded.
Even as Pelosi spoke from the lectern, the White House issued a statement knocking House Democrats for "delaying help" to the border children and urging them to take up the Senate-passed bill immediately.
A young guest tries to remove the seal from the lectern as Vice President Pence delivers remarks during an event to celebrate National Military Appreciation Month and National Military Spouse Appreciation Day on Tuesday.
Speaking at a gold-gilded lectern at the Trump International Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue on Wednesday, Mr. Trump pointed a finger toward Mr. Gingrich, who was in the audience at the hotel ribbon-cutting.
Finally, after some 45 minutes of pandemonium, which included a graduate student protester taking to the stage and co-opting the lectern from Mr. Murray, the protesters marched out of the event en masse.
Ms. Sanders was left this week to offer the equivocal statements from the White House lectern about giving the best information she had even if she was not 100 percent certain it was correct.
In the very brief time it took the meeting with the Democrats to collapse, Trump's team had managed to set up a lectern with a "NO Collusion, NO Obstruction" sign hanging over the front.
However, near the lectern are also examples of art from Asia and two movements indebted to the philosophical history of Romanticism: the British Arts & Crafts movement and the Viennese Wiener Werkstätte (or Vienna Secession).
He nodded, and made a few notes, then hung up the phone and made his way to a lectern in front of the few dozen journalists from various media outlets who were gathered there.
Standing at the lectern in El Paso, Parscale quickly reveals his true interest in these rallies when he whips out his phone and asks the crowd to "text WALL" to a specific phone number.
Mitt used to say when he was running for president that when he went up to the debate lectern, he would write the word "dad" to remind himself of the example his dad set.
After a somewhat wooden start at the lectern, he settled into a chair next to Mr. Kass and touched on a variety of topics: farmers, the role of employment in combating radicalization, income inequality.
But that momentum is unlikely to earn them a lectern at the upcoming debate, as both candidates have little chance of reaching the 4 percent threshold in four approved polls before next Thursday's deadline.
The incoming governor, Mr. Murphy, did not attend the speech, though he was spotted posing for pictures with attendees less than an hour before Mr. Christie was scheduled to step up to the lectern.
"He is someone who gives hope that things can change," said Levi Sanders, who has his father's bounding walk and straight-arm lean into the lectern, before introducing the candidate in Wolfeboro, N.H., in January.
She began her speech to the crowd of 50 or so people, most of them women and baby boomers like herself, behind a lectern onto which her small campaign staff had fastened a campaign sign.
Many of the same stakeholders behind a lawsuit against the MTA and DOT for the shutdown's impact—which VICE has previously reported on—stood at the lectern and assailed the agencies responsible for the SEA.
When Warren took to the lectern to read Coretta Scott King's letter, written in 1986 and accusing Sessions of outright racist bigotry, she was asked to stop, per Senate rules against impugning a fellow senator.
Not long after the star witness in Harvey Weinstein's rape trial testified about a traumatizing sexual encounter with the Hollywood producer and another woman, defense attorney Donna Rotunno approached the lectern for her cross-examination.
"We passed gun control in this state," said Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, standing before a lectern festooned with a sign declaring "We Are Orlando," and flanked by an American flag and a gay pride flag.
As Mr. Cruz slunk from the stage and Mr. Trump's son Eric took the lectern, Mr. Trump's aides sought out Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker, who was slated to speak after Mr. Trump's son.
It was a disappointing turn of events to see a Marine-turned-chief-of-staff take the White House lectern and complete his transformation from the adult in the room to a political attack dog.
Mr. Obama leaned indulgently on his lectern at one point when Mr. Castro abruptly paused the news conference to confer with an aide over whether to answer an American reporter's question about Cuba's political prisoners.
Standing at a lectern flanked by plush burgundy drapes with "RP" embossed in gold on them in the Revolutionary Palace — which sounds like an oxymoron — Castro bridled when Andrea Mitchell asked him about human rights.
"The difference between me and Boris is that I would try for a deal," said Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said in a Channel 4 television debate, where Johnson's absence was marked by an empty lectern.
Before he was sentenced, a solemn Mr. Cohen, standing at a lectern, sounded emotional, but resolved, as he told the judge he had been tormented by the anguish and embarrassment he had caused his family.
On either side of the church, there were groups of about 10 monks clustered around a lectern chanting, in a constant movement of call and response, from one side of the church to the other.
In an instantly symbolic moment on Monday, Troy Price, the state Democratic chairman, was speaking at a news conference in Des Moines when the party's logo fell off his lectern and clunked to the floor.
The Senate controls the one TV feed distributed from the chamber, and the camera has been zoomed in on the House manager or lawyer for the President while that person is speaking at the lectern.
Donald Trump had the opportunity of his presidency to stand at a White House lectern, look out on the country he leads, and declare to the world his victory over Iran after a deadly standoff.
His appearance behind the lectern was "interpreted as a clear sign that the administration is siding with him in this feud," and not with the Mercers, said a second source familiar with the group's planning.
Samantha Fuentes, who was wounded in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, proved that Saturday afternoon when she threw up behind the lectern in the middle of an impassioned speech to thousands in Washington.
After the valedictorian had spoken and awards had been distributed for achievement in subjects like history, science and physical education, Mr. Gil stood at the lectern to introduce Mr. Richardson, Mr. Salaam and Mr. Santana.
Bloomberg took the stage to enthusiastic cheers and strolled to the lectern, where he mentioned that he had used that same Sheraton ballroom for an election night victory party for one of his mayoral campaigns.
Mr. Spicer's relationship with reporters was often strained, starting with his first appearance at the lectern, when he laced into the press corps, falsely accusing it of underestimating the size of Mr. Trump's inaugural crowd.
His Trump Tower appearance on Wednesday featured a less flashy theatrical flourish: A table near his lectern was heaped with paper-filled manila folders intended to illustrate his commitment to disentangling himself from his businesses.
Its backdrop was an American flag; a campaign poster, an "H" with an arrow running through it; and three rows of Granite State citizens, a political Greek chorus positioned behind the lectern, awaiting the candidate.
In Arceneaux's hour-long film, an actor who resembles King declaims from a lectern made of rubble, while a humanoid in shaggy coat and leggings scrabbles across the nave of a derelict church in Detroit.
"Taking a deep breath, I went to the DVR and saw Melissa McCarthy wearing my suit, downing gum by the bucket (guilty as charged, but never at the lectern), and yelling at the media," he writes.
" Ryan, at the end of the briefing, was walking away from the lectern where he had been speaking, and didn't return to answer, when a reporter called out, "Why is the plan under lock and key?
The sensitive new mic, in its debut appearance, recorded the repeated impacts of Clinton's finger on the lectern, creating a jarring Foley effect that added theatrical drama to one of the American presidency's most inglorious soundbites.
At the party dinner, Biden walked away from notes that had been placed on a lectern, ditching his usual talk about electability and optimism to describe what he had seen at a bread line that morning.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor interrupted US Solicitor General Noel Francisco before he could complete his second sentence and did not let up on the government's top lawyer through the end of his allotted time at the lectern.
SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas – The most recent sermon posted on YouTube by the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Texas, shows him explaining why he had parked a motorcycle in front of his lectern.
For those who haven't tuned into the show or have forgotten all about it because of Netflix and reality TV, Trebek steps away from his host lectern and interviews the episode's contestants after each commercial break.
" As the lawyer at the lectern referred to past cases finding that the Constitution allows courts to intervene, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made her case with one sentence: "Where did one-person, one-vote come from?
He is not using a lectern for mock debate drills, despite suggestions from some on his coaching team that simulating a one-on-one debate is good practice after the primary debates that featured several rivals.
"I think it's a shame that we keep seeing people that want to make this movement as something that's violent," said Cash, who repeatedly hit the lectern with her fist and whose voice cracked while speaking.
Standing at the lectern, interrupting and shouting, playing the invisible accordion with his open hands, filibustering, tossing his word salads — jobs and terrorism and Nafta and China and everything is terrible — Mr. Trump said a lot.
One year ago, Donald Trump began his elevator ride to infamy, with a pitstop at a lectern, where he accused Mexico of sending rapists into America and announced his candidacy for president of the United States.
"Our weapons now are the pen, our weapons are keystrokes on our iPads and our iPhones and our laptop computers," Rose Tennent, a conservative radio host and one of the event's organizers, said from a lectern.
But when she walked glumly to a lectern at a ballroom in a downtown Los Angeles hotel, a sheet of paper in hand, Sharapova promptly changed the expected story line by instead disclosing the failed test.
After a man shouted at her husband and approached his lectern at a New Hampshire rally last month, she leaped from her chair to help others keep the man from getting too close to her husband.
The scene showed a tiny version of former President Barack Obama standing at a lectern giving his famed "A More Perfect Union" speech while brutal depictions of Reconstruction-era physical and sexual violence swirl around him.
So as Trump walked to the center lectern at Cleveland's Quicken Loans Arena, few entertained the thought that he would be back in this same building less than a year later, accepting the Republican party's nomination.
"If we don't replace these systems, quite simply they will age even more, and become unsafe, unreliable, and ineffective," Carter said, speaking at a lectern in front of a B-52 bomber loaded with cruise missiles.
One of the Senator's aides had set up a lectern on the blacktop, and a few reporters were stationed in front of it, but most of those assembled lived on the block, in similar-looking houses.
Frequently straying from the notes on the lectern, Trump talked about himself and likely Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, often detouring from the purpose of the event: to introduce a little-known politician to the broader public.
Mr. Spicer then went to the White House briefing room for his first turn at the lectern and issued a blistering attack on reporters, made his own false claims and then stormed out without taking questions.
His favorite perk, however, may be the wooden lectern where he dictates monologues as President Trump, the character he plays on "The President Show," a new weekly Comedy Central program that makes its debut on Thursday.
He repeated two racial slurs for African-Americans, an anti-gay slur and other crude language, and twice banged his fist on the lectern, chastising critics for what he said was a premature demand for justice.
What would it say about us, as a society, to forgive someone who for months distorted and deceived from the White House lectern, merely because he's willing to look silly in front of a live audience?
On Friday, Harvard's president, Drew Gilpin Faust, stood at a lectern under a projection of Renty's face and began a rather different enterprise: a major public conference exploring the long-neglected connections between universities and slavery.
With his booming voice and familiar wide-armed grip at the lectern, Mr. Sanders has long positioned himself as a champion of the working class and a passionate opponent of Wall Street and the moneyed elite.
One especially viral version of the meme — due in no small part to Trump himself sharing it on Twitter — even featured Pepe the Frog as Trump, standing at a lectern featuring the seal of the US President.
Sean Spicer lied at his first press conference as the new White House spokesman yesterday, where he took to the lectern to blame outdoor floor coverings for giving the appearance of low attendance at Trump's inauguration ceremony.
During the parade of local elected officials and Lucid executives at the lectern, two of Lucid's alpha prototypes rolled into the plaza in front of the Arizona state capitol building in Phoenix, where the event was held.
" But Donald J. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, waited only a few minutes after Mr. Obama had left the lectern to post on Twitter: "The president just had a news conference, but he doesn't have a clue.
Jorge Elorza, the mayor of Providence, R.I., and the son of undocumented Guatemalan immigrants who were eventually naturalized, stood behind a lectern one recent evening to reassure about 150 people who had filled a high school cafeteria.
We're joined by new faces, like instructor Andy Kravis up at the lectern, who's so encyclopedic we barely need to research clues anymore, and new constructors, who are injecting even more humor and breadth into these collaborations.
" Tuesday morning, however, Doocy was alone on the mezzanine-level sofa, while Kimeade anchored "the big plastic desk" one floor below and co-host Ainsley Earhardt was stationed behind a lectern in the studio's "fish bowl area.
Mr. Crowley, who is twice Ms. Ocasio-Cortez's age, is the No. 4 Democrat in the House of Representatives and had been favored to ascend to the speaker's lectern if Democrats retook the lower chamber this fall.
Standing behind a lectern emblazoned with the message "Scooters in Paris, do away with anarchy," Ms. Hidalgo said the issue was a matter of safety, and introduced a series of new measures that took effect July 1.
The Times ridiculed his initial appearance before reporters, accusing him of being "over the top" for professing his love of Donald Trump and his administration and for blowing a kiss to reporters as he left the lectern.
A man in a red dashiki tried to speak: "No more from Mill Brook, no more, I can't do it, I can't do it," he began before trailing off in whimpers and stumbling away from the lectern.
Press reports have dutifully described Trump's efforts to humiliate him (denying Spicer, a Catholic, an audience with the pope while at the Vatican) and listing his possible replacements at the lectern (Laura Ingraham being the evergreen mention).
"(It is) unacceptable to use a state institution to attempt to whitewash the reputation of thieves and corrupt individuals who have looted Venezuela," said Guaido, pounding a lectern as he read from notes during a press conference.
Campaigns can capitalize on moments — like Bernie Sanders did during the 2016 cycle when a bird landed serendipitously on his lectern at a rally, sparking the #BirdieSanders hashtag — but those events are generally few and far between.
Cruz's lack of endorsement at the RNC Cruz showed the hard feelings hadn't subsided two months later at the Republican National Convention, when he blatantly undercut Trump with a lack of endorsement during his turn at the lectern.
But they have adopted the colonial flag as a symbol of protest and even draped it over the speaker's lectern in the legislature when they stormed it hours after city leaders toasted the 22nd anniversary of the handover.
Read more: Boris Johnson called 'Trumpian' and 'infantile' by EU figure after comparing Brexit to the Hulk smashing out of his chainsBettel instead made a statement to the press alone, standing alongside an empty lectern intended for Johnson.
Just more than 10 minutes into the speech at the White House, he paused and looked under lectern for water, before turning to the side, picking up a bottle of water with both hands and taking a sip.
As he strode to the lectern on Tuesday morning, the 6-foot-8-inch Comey was well aware he was igniting another political firestorm three weeks before the Democratic National Convention and four months before the general election.
Clinton took the lectern, Mr. Trump greeted a crowd in Warren, to raucous chants of "Build the wall!" and delivered a fiery message about taking on China and other nations that devalue their currency to hurt American workers.
"The lectern in a living room look was really odd — nobody would do that in real life, so it shouldn't be done on social," said Kevin Cate, former media strategist for one of Biden's past opponents, Tom Steyer.
Speaking from the White House lectern on Monday, Raj Shah, a White House spokesman, called the poisoning attack "brazen" and "reckless," and said that it impeded Mr. Trump's continued desire to foster a constructive relationship with the Russians.
For example, authentic photos of people actively engaged in global-warming mitigation — such as community members installing solar panels on a roof — are far more resonant than, say, images of politicians at the lectern of a climate conference.
Perhaps that blue jacket — which stood out in the sea of black — was worn to burn it into the eyes of the American people as they think about who might replace Mr. Trump at that lectern in 2022.
The White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, stepped to the lectern on Tuesday to recite what he framed as a litany of successes for Mr. Trump, but as they say in politics, when you're explaining, you're probably losing.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer also made his first appearance behind the lectern in the White House briefing room on Saturday afternoon, where he scolded media for its "shameful and wrong" focus on the inaugural crowd size.
Behind a new slogan, "A Better Deal," there stood Chuck Schumer at the lectern, backed by the glum faces of Elizabeth Warren and Nancy Pelosi and two other Democratic lawmakers, apparently included to strike a chord of populism.
John McCain on Tuesday delivered a fiery, not-so-subtle rebuttal to President Donald Trump's argument that the United States and Russia are morally equivalent, at one point slamming his hand on a lectern in condemning the Russian regime.
On March 26, during a massive rally in Portland, Oregon, a small green finch landed on the lectern right in front of Sanders — a serene moment that drew a big smile from the candidate and launched a thousand memes.
Protruding 21991 inches from the presidential lectern, known around the White House as "the blue goose," a lone microphone sat suspended, ever so slightly off-center, arched on a long, flexible arm an inch or two from Trump's tongue.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The day he was hired as Giants coach 12 years ago, Tom Coughlin stepped to a lectern and launched into a speech that had all the fire-and-brimstone rhetoric of a pastor lecturing a congregation.
Critics on social media, including several reporters and White House correspondents, said it was "disgraceful" to give Spicer a platform after he "lied to the American people" from his West Wing lectern in the White House press briefing room.
The caution Mr Wall urged in his stint at the lectern seemed to persuade four conservative justices that a Bivens remedy for a cross-border shooting would be a new court-recognised cause of action and should be avoided.
"Sometimes we start to think that the stones themselves have meaning," he said from the pulpit, which on Sunday was a lectern on a stage in an ornate auditorium donated so the church's members could gather for the holiday.
Accustomed to speaking from behind a lectern, Biden decided to have one placed in the middle of his new home studio — an awkward fit amid the backdrop of bookshelves and personal pictures framed beneath a living room table lamp.
Some of the president's advisers objected to the idea of a foreign official making a statement from the White House lectern, so they had him do it instead on the White House driveway, where visitors typically speak with reporters.
There are notes on his lectern to remind him of key policy points, depending on the locale, and his schedule has been carefully planned: He has appeared at nearly as many fund-raisers (five) as he has rallies (six).
"If we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so," Mr. Mueller said, reading from prepared notes behind a lectern at the Justice Department at a hastily called public appearance.
When Granato stood behind a lectern here in early November, at a dinner benefiting the foundation of the late Wisconsin and American sled hockey coach Jeff Sauer, he gestured toward a slight, bespectacled man sitting at a nearby table.
Instead, Ms. Gund used her six minutes at the lectern to praise the museum for its contributions to culture and toasted her fellow medal recipients — the curator Thelma Golden and the sculptor Richard Serra — whose work enriched her life.
He wore his navy blazer and a matching tie, an implicit show of respect for the vanquished; and though he took handwritten notes to the lectern, he barely glanced at them, instead gazing reflectively at no one in particular.
He obviously wants to stabilize himself at the lectern for fear of falling over, and his rigid upper body is like that of a litigious courtroom charlatan strapped in a neck brace checking to see if people believe him.
He has refused to debate his Democratic opponent, Nate McMurray; at a scheduled debate this week, Mr. McMurray and the Reform Party candidate, Larry Piegza, went on a stage with an unattended microphone and lectern left for Mr. Collins.
"This is an historic restoration of American economic independence — one that will benefit the working class, the working poor and working people of all stripes," Mr. Pruitt said on Thursday, stepping to the Rose Garden lectern after Mr. Trump.
Taking the lectern Friday morning at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, McConnell promised a conservative crowd that Kavanaugh would become Justice Kavanaugh "in the very near future," assuring them that Senate Republicans would "plow right through" his confirmation.
This schism is the future Mark Zuckerberg asked Americans to envision last month in a curious speech in Washington, DC. Anchored to a lectern at Georgetown University, he forecast a great-power competition over the nature of online expression.
A video clip from official statehouse footage posted on YouTube showed the 69-year-old, silver-haired governor pausing to take a sip of water, then slurring his words as he tried to resume his address before slumping at the lectern.
To CNN producers inside the debate hall, it sounded as if Trump's audio was at a lower level at the beginning of several answers, perhaps as a result of him standing too far away from the microphone attached to his lectern.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ohio's Republican governor, John Kasich, took over the White House briefing lectern on Friday to praise the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership, an unusual move that shows how hard President Barack Obama will push for the trade deal's approval.
"With shrewd showmanship and calculated irreverence, his year-old candidacy has turned the tired ritual of holding court from behind a lectern into a frequently riveting spectacle of self-promotion and media manipulation," Times reporters Michael Barbaro and Jessica Dimson write.
At a press conference, Trump lavished praise on Putin for the World Cup — "It was really one of the best ever … it was a great job," Trump said at a lectern beside Putin, who presented Trump with a soccer ball.
Despite all the talk about growth and #LetsGrow emblazoned on the lectern in a nod to the Twitter-obsessed president, the Chamber isn't actually concerned about growth, or at least not with growing incomes for the vast majority of Americans.
He announced instead that his sons would run the family business, but that he would fire them if they lost money over the course of his presidency, and he left the lectern amid questions about his advisers' connections to Russian officials.
The term "paper architect" is often employed to describe those within the profession who theorize without actually building: Their grand plans remain in blueprint form as they expound the importance of their stylistic innovations from the lectern of college classrooms.
But there is acknowledgment on both sides of the lectern that some re-examination of the system is warranted, especially at a time when news organizations, which must pay their way to follow the president, are increasingly hamstrung by budget constraints.
Last week, Mary Louise Kelly of National Public Radio pushed Mr. Spicer on the inauguration crowd issue and on what his objective was as press secretary: to "parrot" the president's thoughts from the lectern or to correct the factual record?
After Fauci stepped to the lectern to defend Adhanom Ghebreyesus personally, Trump again touted his decision to bar foreigners traveling to the U.S. from China, a move he has repeatedly pointed to as proof he took the virus seriously early on.
Former Representative Beto O'Rourke, towering over Ms. Warren on her other side, did much the same, though he never quite seemed to know what to do with his hands, which moved anxiously from his lectern to his midsection throughout the night.
Giant television screens, food trucks, a band known as the Guzzlers and a celebration of all things Trump turned the 20,000-seat Amway Center into something between a playoff game and a music festival before Mr. Trump strode to the lectern.
Ms. Sanders, whose briefing materials take hours to prepare and whose official statements are agreed to in advance by senior aides, said from the briefing room lectern that Mr. Kelly and Mr. Trump still had full confidence in Mr. Porter.
Mr. Raffensperger, a former city councilman from Johns Creek, an affluent Atlanta suburb, did not respond to an interview request, and he backed out of a scheduled debate this week, leaving Mr. Barrow to talk next to an empty lectern.
" And then in the first surprise of the night, Sean Spicer, the former White House press secretary, rolled onto the stage behind a lectern like the one immortalized by Melissa McCarthy in her portrayal of him on "Saturday Night Live.
"That man is like superhuman," said Joy Manbeck, 38, of Harrisburg, Pa., who got a tattoo of a finch and the word "revolution" on her arm after a finch landed on Mr. Sanders's lectern during a campaign speech last year.
Trump fielded the questions from behind a lectern next to a table stacked with documents in manila folders that he said were evidence of the legal work he's undertaking to separate himself from conflicts of interest stemming from his businesses.
GREENBURGH, N.Y. — After finishing exit interviews with the last of the Knicks on Thursday, Phil Jackson ambled into the pressroom at the team's headquarters, leaned against a lectern, looked out at a flock of reporters and let out a deep breath.
Those fears, at least, Mr. Spicer seemed to put to rest on Monday during a 90-minute briefing in which he was by turns calm, feisty and bantering, yet far from the hothead who appeared behind the lectern this weekend.
Unapologetic and unrelenting, he stood at a lectern in Beirut before more than 100 journalists on Wednesday and laid out his case for how criminal charges of financial wrongdoing in Japan are part of a vast conspiracy to take him down.
Instead, she far exceeded their expectations, delighting members of Parliament and activists from the first minute: the normally rigid, awkward Prime Minister came onto the conference stage to ABBA's "Dancing Queen," breaking out some moves as she approached the lectern.
President Donald Trump stepped up to a White House lectern on Sunday morning to announce the US military conducted an operation that resulted ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's death in what was a huge moment for the country and Trump's legacy.
About an hour before the president was due to start speaking, aides scrambled to rearrange the lectern placement to allow Trump to enter from Cross Hall — producing a dramatic television shot that has traditionally lent gravitas and a presidential air to official statements.
Image: APSarah Huckabee Sanders is slowly taking over Sean Spicer's duties as the public face of the Trump administration, and she's already inheriting his penchant for using the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room's lectern as a bully pulpit against the media.
At a subsequent press conference, Trump again lavished praise on Putin for the World Cup—"It was really one of the best ever … it was a great job," Trump said at a lectern beside Putin, who presented Trump with a soccer ball.
Clinton all-but ended her 2000 Senate race against Rick Lazio during one of their debates when she stood strong as the Republican representative approached her lectern with a piece of paper and demanded she pledge to support stricter campaign finance rules.
They are also fonder of whimsy: after a small bird landed on Mr Sanders's lectern at a rally in Portland, Oregon, delighting the crowd, his campaign rushed out stickers showing a cartoon bird with Sanders-style white hair and glasses, named "Birdie".
But on the debate stage, he leaned heavily into his lectern, gripping the sides with both hands, as if his bulk could help gird against a moderator gently guiding him back to the questions at hand and a nimble if dispassionate rival.
No tables were present at one recent news conference on Rikers Island — perhaps because the advance team could not get there to set them up — but the mayor still sat when he was not speaking, on a high chair by the lectern.
A Washington correspondent for a provocative conservative website who spoke at the University of Connecticut was arrested on Tuesday night after he appeared to grab a woman who had taken papers off the lectern at which he had been speaking, officials said.
In a dress shirt, a black-and-white vest and black chinos, with his dark hair clipped short and parted boyishly on the side, he stood at the lectern, speaking at high speed and clicking through graphs and images of fossilized coral.
The meetings were held on the sixth floor of City Hall, where top city officials sat around a curved table and put questions to whichever agency head had been called to the lectern that day to defend his or her agency's performance.
Smiling as she took the White House lectern on Monday, Ms. Nielsen read from a script defending Mr. Trump's "zero tolerance" policy, which has separated 2,300 children from their parents yet failed to reduce the number of families trying to cross the border.
At the convention itself, Goodwin recounts the tension in the arena as Roosevelt triumphantly hauled himself across the stage, on just his crutches, to seize "the lectern edges with his powerful, viselike grip" and flash his beaming smile to the cheering throng.
Mr. Mattis, who gained a reputation for bluntness during his years as a Marine Corps general, has appeared behind the lectern in the Pentagon briefing room only twice since he became defense secretary, the better to stay out of political debates, aides say.
But we should note that just hours before he stepped up to that lectern, supposedly to make things right, he used that infernal Twitter account of his to taunt a black chief executive, Kenneth Frazier, for resigning from an administration advisory board.
Standing at a lectern, he explained his decision-making in the investigation and his choice to grant immunity to the Astros players involved even as he issued lengthy suspensions to two team officials, which was producing loud criticism from players on other teams.
My response now, as it was back then, focuses on the one action that could prevent such behavior in political debates: a clear, definitive directive that candidates remain at their chair or lectern when it is not their turn to speak. Period.
By normal comedic standards, the idea seemed pretty basic: Put Mr. Spicer behind a mock White House lectern and have him make a fake boast about the size of the Emmy audience — evoking the false claim he made about Mr. Trump's inaugural crowd.
"I think there's been, at times, a disconnect between the way we see the president and how much we love the president, and the way some of you perhaps see the president," he said, blowing a kiss as he left the lectern.
As he practiced his speeches — one for victory and one for defeat — two hours before polls closed, he leaned over a chipped wooden lectern in a nondescript Newark hotel room to run a last-second addition to his speech by his staff.
While Amy Klobuchar nodded toward convention by positioning herself as the candidate with "heart," Warren unsheathed her scimitar, aimed for the trouser break, and proceeded to stack bodies by her lectern like an outdoor cat leaving neighborhood mouse carcasses on progressives' doormat.
Decades later, if and when the frequently losing presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson — who loved "old-fashioned speech and its rhythms and cadences and pauses, a speech that had a classic balance to it" — appeared on television, he read his speeches from the lectern.
The 6-foot-something attorney stood imposingly at the lectern in the Los Angeles federal court with the confidence of a guy compelled to remind people he lettered in high school varsity basketball for four years and almost walked onto his college team.
WASHINGTON — One by one, the senators shuffled to the lectern on Wednesday, explaining themselves grimly, reflecting on the specter of mutually assured destruction and wondering aloud how the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Neil M. Gorsuch had delivered the institution to this moment.
She delivered the speech, tellingly, not in the House of Commons, but to an audience of reporters and European ambassadors, at the very lectern where Margaret Thatcher, back in 1988, trumpeted Britain's new membership of the same single market from which Mrs.
"Video of the altercation shows that the guest appeared to remove paperwork from the lectern where Mr. Wintrich was speaking, and that he followed the woman into the audience, where the altercation occurred," university spokeswoman Stephanie Reitz said, according to the Hartford Courant.
Anti-modernist at a time when few progressives dared to be, she was invited to a symposium on cities at Harvard in 1956, and did a Ruby Keeler, going up to the lectern an unknown and coming back to her seat a star.
Risking his own safety, he went at the killer, armed with only the improvised tools at hand — first a wooden lectern, and then a fire extinguisher — as the clash began in a central London building and then spilled out into the street.
Taking the stage at the "March for Our Lives" in Washington, Hogg placed a price tag on a lectern, representing the amount of money Rubio's campaign took from the National Rifle Association (NRA) for each of the 17 victims of the Parkland shooting.
Susan Platt, a Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor in Virginia, compared Spicer's fundraiser appearance to the recent skit by NBC's "Saturday Night Live" in which Spicer, played by actress Melissa McCarthy, drives a lectern to New York to beg Trump for his job.
On December 4, 19533, two years after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, T.S. Eliot stood behind a lectern in the Kaufmann Concert Hall at the 92nd Street Y and read some of his best work in front of hundreds of people.
In the aftermath, nervous investors would postulate as to whether the muted decline in the indices were coincidental with the spectacle of what rational people can only view as irrational behavior at the lectern or nothing more than a consolidating market after a record run.
"I've been looking forward to saying this sentence for a couple of weeks now," Nic Rea, the chapter co-chair began, as he looked out from a lectern draped with a red banner upon a standing-room-only crowd of nearly 113 (mostly) young people.
"Video of the altercation shows that the guest appeared to remove paperwork from the lectern where Mr. Wintrich was speaking, and that he followed the woman into the audience, where the altercation occurred," UConn spokesperson Stephanie Reitz said in a statement to The Courant.
Every detail—from the sign on the lectern to the demographics of everyone behind the candidate to (on one bizarre occasion this cycle) the raw slabs of meat dressing the set—is meant to convey who the candidate is and what the candidate stands for.
The camera slowly wraps around the lectern, back to the audience, past the audience, into the other rooms of the apartment… Students are splaying light on them as they ask questions, the audio tracks are blending, the dynamics are all out of whack, untenable.
With a tile floor and a chalkboard running along one wall, our classroom's only other distinguishing features were a small bank of gym-style lockers on the back wall, a single wooden lectern, a few battered folding tables and a stack of blue plastic chairs.
"He's as stiff and two-dimensional as a sheet of cardboard, with feet that move as if stuck in slabs of cement and arms that look like they're still gripping the lectern," Gia Kourlas, the dance critic for The New York Times, wrote last week.
A funny moment occurs when he, as the chairman of the 2001 presidential inaugural, and George W. Bush, the soon-to-be president, briefly panic over the absence of a speaker's lectern on the inaugural platform, not realizing it would rise from beneath the stage.
As Trump struggles to move beyond a series of seemingly self-inflicted political headaches, Kelly's performance at the lectern Thursday offered a different example of how Trump might approach U.S. allies, members of Congress and even the news media, and potentially advance his agenda.
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But just try to come up with some other explanation for why she's so infrequently photographed in sandals or flip-flops; why she seldom appears barefoot in public; why, during debates, she keeps her legs, especially the lower halves, tucked carefully behind the lectern.
When lawyer Neal Katyal, representing the state of Hawaii and other challengers, stood up at the lectern, Roberts immediately asked whether a president would be prevented from acting on intelligence that Syrian nationals sought to enter the United States with chemical and biological weapons.
The man in charge of the Treasury, Rishi Sunak, stepped to the lectern inside Parliament and, over the course of an hour, detailed plans to set loose vast amounts of money toward repairing the accumulated damage of a dozen years of extraordinary budget-cutting.
During the 2016 Democratic primaries, supporters of Senator Bernie Sanders generated many memes promoting their man, often focusing on his untamed hair and his socialism, or unscripted moments that seemed funny or charming, such as when a bird landed on his lectern during a rally.
WASHINGTON — Attorney General William P. Barr stood at the Justice Department lectern six weeks ago and put the best possible spin on the Mueller report for his boss, declaring that the special counsel had amassed insufficient evidence to accuse President Trump of a crime.
Publicly, Dr. Birx has been a soothing constant next to Mr. Trump and Vice President Mike Pence in coronavirus meetings and briefings, where she has been one of the few regulars in a rotating cast of health officials perched behind the White House lectern.
KIEV, Ukraine — The Ukrainian presidential race took a surreal turn on Sunday when what was supposed to be a debate between the two candidates featured President Petro O. Poroshenko discussing Ukraine's future with an empty lectern bearing the name of his rival, a comedian.
"I'm glad to see that you're practicing social distancing," Trump quipped as he stepped up to the lectern in an unscheduled appearance at the sparsely populated James S. Brady briefing room in the White House, where reporters were arranged with open seats between them.
Biden mostly came across as calm and resolute in the face of dire circumstances that had forced a relocation of the debate to Washington from Phoenix, the elimination of an audience and the addition of an extra few feet between his lectern and Sanders's.
At the end of President Donald Trump's State of the Union address Tuesday night, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ripped up a printed copy of his speech and tossed it aside as the president left the lectern to applause from the rest of the chamber.
BOURNEMOUTH, England — His shirt sleeves rolled up, Britain's foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, bounded into the hall, ignored the lectern and headed straight to the front of the stage to make his pitch that he should lead the country out of its paralyzing Brexit maze.
It was only with the refugee crisis, Pichai explained from the lectern, that the company came to reckon with Translate's geopolitical importance: On the screen behind him appeared a graph whose steep curve indicated a recent fivefold increase in translations between Arabic and German.
We watched him, in the second debate, prowling behind his opponent, back and forth with lowered head, belligerent and looming, while she moved within her legitimate space, returning to her lectern after each response: tightly smiling, trying to be reasonable, trying to be impervious.
"Democrats are not going to win if we have a nominee who has a history of hiding his tax returns, of harassing women and of supporting racist polls like redlining and stop-and-frisk," Warren said, a stone-faced Bloomberg standing one lectern away.
Less than two weeks after Inauguration Day, Mike Flynn, the national security adviser, took to the White House lectern and said that the White House was "officially putting Iran on notice" for engaging in a missile test and supporting an attack on a Saudi warship.
Last month, for instance, Paul Clement, the lawyer at the lectern challenging a New York City restriction on transporting firearms, was just two minutes into his argument when Ginsburg brushed past his rendition of 2nd Amendment history and focused on what mattered to her.
" Looking somber and speaking alone at a lectern in front of French and European Union flags, the former investment banker and economy minister who has never held elected office said he knew there were "divisions in our nation that led some to extreme votes.
SOUTH BEND, Indiana — A protester wearing a Black Lives Matter T-shirt rushed a lectern and ripped a microphone away from a black city leader on Wednesday night at an event meant to promote Mayor Pete Buttigieg's relationships with the black community in his hometown.
MINNEAPOLIS — The digital thermometer on the TCF Bank Stadium scoreboard read 5 degrees when P. J. Fleck, hours into his tenure as head football coach at the University of Minnesota, stood behind a lectern to address a room full of reporters, university officials and boosters.
"When he's got that shot dropping, there's not much more you can do but stay in front of him and have a good contest," Tristan Thompson said right after he wrapped his knuckle on a wooden lectern when I asked him about LeBron's startlingly accurate shot.
IF THERE is one detail of Philip Roth's biography that is worth knowing, it is not that he was Jewish or that he had no children or that he was born in New Jersey—it is that he preferred to write standing up at a lectern.
During a news conference in Louisville on Wednesday morning, Mr. Beshear stood at a lectern where the logo from his campaign had already been altered to declare him "governor-elect," and said he was beginning the work of sketching out his first budget proposal in January.
Kelly's own son was killed in combat in Afghanistan, and on Thursday he lit into Wilson from the lectern in the White House briefing room, saying it was "disgusting" that Wilson had repeated part of the call, which she heard when Myeshia Johnson put it on speakerphone.
" When he spoke at a 2014 alec meeting, he looked genial as he stood at the lectern and peered over his reading glasses, but his rhetoric was martial: thanks to Obama Administration regulations, Pruitt told the audience, Americans were "in the midst of a constitutional crisis.
In all his supposed patience for the facts on the ground in Charlottesville, he still managed to make errors from the lectern on Tuesday, to say nothing of larger errors he's made such as accusing President Barack Obama of wiretapping him and of being born in Kenya.
From there, he headed to the Rose Garden, where a lectern had been set up with a preprinted sign that said "No Collusion, No Obstruction" along with statistics intended to show that the investigation by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, was more than thorough.
But Mr. Trump stepped behind the lectern still popular with his most ardent supporters, who see him as an unpredictable and entertaining commander in chief who posts vitriol on Twitter against the advice of the White House staff, the Republican leadership and those closest to him.
Despite denials from the White House that he was considering replacing Azar with a "czar" to lead the federal response, when Trump stepped up to the lectern in the White House briefing room, that's effectively what he did by putting Vice President Mike Pence in charge.
Commanding center stage, gripping the lectern in the House of Representatives, Trump, his jaw set, in a trademark dark suit and bold blue tie, looked every inch a president, striking a contrast with his often unpredictable behavior outside formal settings that has crashed against political norms.
That, at least, was one lesson from Tom Steyer's announcement Tuesday that he had—after spending $7 million on television commercials and $3.5 million on online advertisements (including $202020 million on Facebook ads alone)—likely purchased a lectern at the third primary debate, coming next month.
Speaking of the military, it, too, was pulled into the story when Mr. Trump boasted that his generals came straight from "central casting," though apparently Sean Spicer, the press secretary, didn't get the message until he was told to start dressing for his part behind the lectern.
WASHINGTON — Six months ago, Jim Mattis stood at a lectern at the Hoover Institution, a conservative think tank at Stanford University, and sharply criticized Donald J. Trump's campaign proposal for a ban on Muslim immigration, saying that such a move would distress American allies around the world.
During a nearly hourlong briefing focused on foreign policy, Mr. Bolton took the lectern at the White House and declined to answer repeated questions about why he had not listened to the recording provided by Turkish officials of the killing inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul.
WASHINGTON — Senator Bernie Sanders stepped to the lectern on Wednesday, red-faced and rumpled as ever, with a placard screaming "Medicare for All," and likened his quest for a government-run universal health plan to earlier movements for women's rights, civil rights, workers' rights and gay rights.
A former congressman and presidential candidate also running for governor, he has been endorsed in the May 8 Democratic primary by allies of Senator Bernie Sanders, who remember Mr. Kucinich's lectern-pounding opposition to the Iraq war and his long-ago turn as the "boy mayor" of Cleveland.
One newspaper even reported that in the grand hall at the Capitoline where the two leaders spoke, the lectern was placed to the side — not the front — of an equestrian statue of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, apparently to avoid having images of the horse's genitals appear in news photographs.
"Our work has resulted in a plan that addresses the magnitude of our city's affordability crisis by encouraging smart, sustainable affordable housing production," said Melissa Mark-Viverito, the Council speaker, standing at a lectern in the rotunda of City Hall on Monday to announce the details of the deal.
CreditCreditJohn Duricka/Associated Press WASHINGTON — In September 1994, as President Bill Clinton signed the new Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act in an elaborately choreographed ceremony on the south lawn of the White House, Joseph R. Biden Jr. sat directly behind the president's lectern, flashing his trademark grin.
CANTON, Ohio — Ray Lewis, the last of the seven members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame class of 19743 on hand to be enshrined, eschewed notes and the lectern as he delivered his induction speech, instead strolling along the stage and passionately urging his listeners to come together.
A pack of 5-year-olds lolled in the grass, played tag or stood transfixed in front of the lectern, listening to Wang's friends, Mayor Liz Lempert of Princeton, New Jersey Representative Chris Smith and an aide to Senator Robert Menendez as the sun sank behind the brick complex.
It did not occur to either of us that Mr. Roof would do what he did on Wednesday morning: walk to the lectern, insist to the jury that "there's nothing wrong with me psychologically," then return to his seat faster than the ink could dry on my legal pad.
One military official was given only 20 minutes' notice to head to the White House to stand behind Mr. Trump as he spoke in the Grand Foyer of the White House in the late morning, and the president made edits right until he stepped up to the lectern.
Perhaps the prime minister was channeling her inner Iron Lady when she stood at a lectern in Downing Street recently and scolded the leaders of the European Union, demonstrating how effectively she hid her true colors in the past: She, too, can be nasty when she needs to be.
In "At U.N., Trump Singles Out 'Rogue' Nations North Korea and Iran," The New York Times writes: Leaders from around the globe took the lectern at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday — a particularly big moment for President Trump, who addressed the gathering for the first time.
The responses from the President and his team ignored Mueller's most damning comments from a lectern at the Justice Department, where he made clear that he did not charge Trump with a crime in large part because the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel guidelines prevented him from doing so.
Rangers 6, Sabres 3 Coach Alain Vigneault stepped briskly to a lectern two hours before his Rangers were to face the last-place Buffalo Sabres on Monday in their final game before the N.H.L. All-Star break and announced that Rick Nash had sustained only a bruised left knee Friday.
" All of that laid the groundwork for how the president himself would rip on the press when it came his turn to grip the lectern: "Despite all their lies, misrepresentations, and false stories, they could not defeat us in the primaries, and they could not defeat us in the general election.
In a transcript of comments Scaramucci made Sunday on a hot microphone between appearances on Fox News, CNN, and CBS News talk shows, Scaramucci described his mindset when he took the lectern at his first press briefing on Friday, hours after his appointment was announced and press secretary Sean Spicer resigned.
In a transcript of comments Scaramucci made on a hot microphone between Sunday appearances on Fox News, CNN, and CBS News talk shows, Scaramucci described his mindset when he took the lectern at his first press briefing on Friday, hours after his appointment was announced and press secretary Sean Spicer resigned.
When the racket of whistle and applause wanes, Andy Wilkinson sets the ukulele at his feet, spreads a notebook across the lectern and—as he gazes into a 230-seat auditorium—launches headlong into the prologue of his keynote address at the 231rd annual National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada.
When his father felt it was close to ready, he and two of his father's other top aides rounded up secretaries, mailroom workers and anyone else they could find at the governor's office at 2 World Trade Center, put the governor at the press room lectern and turned down the lights.
Rand PaulRandal (Rand) Howard PaulGraham promises ObamaCare repeal if Trump, Republicans win in 2020 Conservatives buck Trump over worries of 'socialist' drug pricing Rand Paul to 'limit' August activities due to health MORE (R-Ky.) chose not to attend the most recent undercard debate, there was no lectern left for him.
For the most part, however, Pelosi sat stern and sullen behind the lectern, twisting her lips in frustration, confusion (or both) at the president's message — a silent critic of Trump's agenda, from his promise to succeed in building a border wall to his calls for the elimination of late-term abortions.
The professionalized presentation, with two teleprompters flanking the lectern in a third-floor ballroom of the Trump SoHo hotel in Manhattan, represented a stark contrast to how Mr. Trump has handled the last month of his campaign, and came two days after he fired his much-maligned campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski.
Standing below a large peaked skylight and behind a lectern that did not mention Mr. Trump's campaign but instead touted "Trump Hotels," he devoted the first five minutes to extolling his "magnificent building," complete with its exterior of "all granite," as thick as four or five feet in some places.
As the imam delivers a brief sermon about the importance of being steadfast and straight in your faith—interrupted occasionally by the faint beep of a smoke detector—Muslet and Rawlins sit just in front of the lectern, staring up, eyes alight, like keen students, as Muslet's children slouch against them.
"I also believe — and it is personal — and it was actually very hurtful to hear you talk about the reputations of two United States senators who built their reputations and career on the segregation of race in this country," Ms. Harris said, pressing her open right hand into her lectern.
There have also been many occasions when what was said at the lectern turned out to be flat-out untrue — a problem that drew intense scrutiny this week, when the administration's account of how Mr. Trump came to fire Mr. Comey was undermined a day later by the president himself.
" Standing at a lectern in the well of the Senate, Schiff told the 100 senators acting as jurors in the trial that Trump had tried to "cheat" his way to victory in November's election, and that he had shown he "believes that he's above the law and scornful of constraint.
When a small bird, later identified as a common house finch, once landed on his lectern, an entire stadium full of people cheered wildly, mouths open, their arms raised to the sky, eyes turned upward — not to God, but to the image of the bird and their candidate on the Jumbotron.
Speaking without notes at a glass lectern, Gaffney — who worked, decades ago, as a Pentagon official in the Reagan administration — told the audience that political leaders from both parties had spent years covering up the true threat to the US. It didn't come from terrorists acting in the name of Islam.
Distraught by Bennett's decision, Lisa spent the next five days polishing a speech she intended to deliver at the April 21 City Council meeting—the meeting where she came to the lectern dressed in a gray hoodie, a sweatshirt very much like the one Andy had worn on the night of his death.
SPOTTED: Rosie Perez scolding a Bernie SandersBernie SandersJoe Biden faces an uncertain path Bernie Sanders vows to go to 'war with white nationalism and racism' as president Biden: 'There's an awful lot of really good Republicans out there' MORE supporter from the lectern after being heckled at a Tuesday night event in Philadelphia.
Mr. Trump said he did not think he needed to prepare more rigorously for the next debate than he did for the first one, because any shortcomings on Monday, he argued, were because of a problem with the microphone at his lectern, which he "spent 50 percent of my thought process" dealing with.
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — President Trump celebrated the service of military members and the talents of professional golfers on Tuesday in a reserved speech that, but for the presidential seal on the lectern and a few improvised flourishes, offered little deviance from the standard pre-dinner remarks at a signature sporting event.
He was a car salesman from Boynton Beach, very tan, with a close-cropped corona of graying hair, in good shape just as the president said, wearing a commemorative T-shirt from Trump's inauguration featuring the same presidential seal as the lectern behind which he now embraced Trump in a bear hug.
Late Monday night, Zimmer stepped behind a lectern inside U.S. Bank Stadium looking as if he had just chugged a gallon of spoiled milk — which, to be fair, might have been more appealing than watching his team curdle on its home field against its fiercest rival with the N.F.C. North still undecided.
In tense exchanges on live television, Mr. Trump denounced a network correspondent as "very rude," sternly told several reporters to "sit down," and at one point stepped away from his lectern, suggesting that he was prepared to cut off the session — a rare formal East Room news conference — because of queries he disliked.
"We're gonna have a lot of phone calls made to companies when they say they're thinking about leaving this country because they're not leaving this country," declared Trump, who spoke for roughly 15 minutes between a Carrier-branded lectern and a backdrop on a stage he also shared with an air conditioning unit.
Bounding energetically to the press-conference lectern after two gruelling days of talks over the terms of Britain's EU membership, Mr Cameron opened his post-summit remarks not by trumpeting the emergency brake on euro-zone integration he had just secured, nor by crowing over his success in denying benefits to EU migrant workers.
"My husband is creating a country of great safety and prosperity," said Melania, who also led the crowd in a prayer before ushering President TrumpDonald John TrumpO'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms Objections to Trump's new immigration rule wildly exaggerated MORE to the lectern.
Just one year ahead of Alex at Santa Monica High School 220 miles away, Miller was already becoming the bombastic force we saw on television this month, when, in his current role as a presidential adviser, he stood at the White House lectern doing battle with the CNN correspondent Jim Acosta over immigration policy.
" Back on the Convention floor, Representative Chris Collins, the first member of Congress to endorse Trump, was at the lectern: "I proudly represent western New York, which has been devastated by unfair trade deals allowing countries like China and Mexico to steal our jobs, robbing our children of the opportunity to live the American dream.
Only midway through the ad is Mr. Trump heard from, as the soundscape takes on a syncopated, raucous feel: "We have a country that we're proud of, that we love, and that we're not going to lose," he says as a packed, screaming crowd and his lectern, framed by five American flags, are shown from different angles.
So when Mr. Francisco told the justices that there was "no evidence in this record" that Secretary Ross would have added the citizenship question "had the Department of Justice not requested it," he was at that moment the luckiest person in the courtroom: The red light on the lectern came on, indicating the end of his argument time.
"Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House," his insider account of the year he spent reporting from the West Wing, has drawn denunciations from the White House lectern, threatened the career of the Breitbart News leader Stephen K. Bannon and turned Mr. Wolff, an overnight sensation at age 64, into one of the world's most famous journalists.
As the head of the coronavirus task force, the vice president has maintained fairly smooth relationships with the Democratic governors of states hit hard by the virus and projected an image of calm and organization in his near-daily appearances at the White House briefing room lectern to update the nation on the task force's efforts.
Maureen Dowd WASHINGTON — We've been conditioned by Hollywood to see the president of the United States step up to the lectern to confidently tell us how he will combat the existential threat to the planet — be it aliens, asteroids, tidal waves, volcanoes, killer sharks, killer robots or a 500-billion-ton comet the size of New York City.
Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE (R-Wis.), appearing at the same lectern just minutes after Pelosi left it, said he's optimistic the Republicans can win the GOP support to pass their continuing resolution on Thursday.
"I will not tell you that Gucci and Tiffany are my central concerns in life, but I will say the traffic situation is a very real problem," Mayor Bill de Blasio said as he stood at a lectern on the sidewalk in front of the building, speaking to reporters after leaving an hourlong meeting with Mr. Trump.
Yet there it was on Saturday, emanating from the lectern of the White House briefing room — the official microphone of the United States — as Mr. Trump's press secretary, Sean Spicer, used his first appearance there to put forth easily debunked statistics¹ that questioned the news media's reporting on the size of the president's inaugural audience (of all things).
Photographed by James Macari and titled "Madam President," it features a model in a red sheath dress in the Oval Office; in a gray lace-sleeved number, speaking from behind a lectern with the presidential seal; and in a narrow black trouser suit, amid a walk-and-talk briefing surrounded by American flags and Secret Service men in what looks like the Capitol.
If Republican presidential front-runner Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE skips Thursday's GOP debate moderated by Fox News, there won't be an empty lectern for him on the stage.
The walls are lovingly covered with images of the outgoing President: he's smiling on a clock next to a watermark of Martin Luther King, Jr.; speaking at a lectern with a "Change We Can Believe In" sign above him; and, slightly less convincing, alongside Michelle, in an advertisement for a "first couple farewell sculpture," a hand-painted porcelain number standing eleven inches tall.
"Donald Trump knows that the American people are angry—a fact so obvious he can see it from the top of Trump Tower," Elizabeth Warren said from the lectern, undertaking the sober, measured work of arguing that Trump did not speak for the American people, that he had misjudged if he thought that he could make the American people angry with one another.

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