Our professor asked him to take the stage and speak of the secrets of his success.

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Part of what we've tried to do with the band is that, you know, you have a platform from the stage to speak to people what's unique about New Orleans and the brass bands because you have the streets, so the music isn't disconnected from the street.

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The change in performance probably helps explain his willingness to speak forthrightly on the Columbia stage.

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U. must be united and able to speak with one voice on the world stage.

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Obama on the Foreign Relations Committee and, as a presidential nominee in 2004, gave the young senator a platform on the national stage when he asked him to speak at the Democratic National Convention.

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Seventy-eight-year-old Betty Douglas, who divides her time between Wisconsin and South Florida, appeared briefly on stage with Mr. Ryan but didn't speak at her son's campaign rally.

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By that stage the reader's trust in the author will already, so to speak, have gone south.

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As former first lady Laura Bush took the stage, she thanked Jones' widow, Nancy, for giving her the opportunity to speak.

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"The case begins to speak for itself, " the committee member said, adding that the proposed articles are in the drafting stage and have not yet been signed off by the committee's chairman, Rep. Henry Hyde.

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