Instead, imagine the speaker striding briskly to the front of the room, launching into a story about the perils facing the industry, a story which has the audience nodding in agreement and eager to hear more.

FORBES: The Secret to Public Speaking Success: Focus

The Expo will present current knowledge and technology advancements concerning the ocean and coast to a broad audience and identify ways to resolve challenges facing the ocean.

UNESCO: Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission

The programs are facing off for the first time this fall, and each show's audience has fallen at least 20% from the corresponding weeks of its previous season.

WSJ: 'X Factor' Producer Proposes Truce

MS. PSAKI: Well, any opportunity you have to lay out the choice the American people are facing to a large audience is a good opportunity.

WHITEHOUSE: The White House

Nothing can disguise the problems facing a new orchestra of foreigners playing to an unsophisticated audience in an 864-seat concert hall (a standard hall seats about 2, 500), at the mercy of a single corporate sponsor (the state oil company, Petronas), and in a tropical climate that makes instruments come unglued.

ECONOMIST: The Malaysian Philharmonic

The pre-debate poll of audience members indicated Lindzen, Stott and Crichton were facing an uphill fight.

FORBES: The Global Warming Debate Produces An Indisputable Winner

In essence, the audience left having been entertained by five fabulous actors and warmed-up for the cold facing them outside.

BBC: Review: Eastern Angles' Gills Around The Green

For an hour, listeners can play along as Eisenberg puts questions to a rotating band of puzzle gurus, audience members and special mystery guests, who then takes a turn in the contestant's chair facing trivia games written especially for him or her.

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