Zell Miller, a Georgia Democrat who took the stage before him and gripped the audience with a crowd-rousing speech.
More recently 26-year-old Ava Maginnis, from the Totterdown area of Bristol, remembered waiting in the wings on the right-hand side of the stage before a performance.
The decision on Thursday is likely to be merely the first stage before the first aircraft begins commercial flight in around 2005.
And Slovakia, who had beaten top-ranked Russia in the group stage before knocking out defending champions Sweden in the quarter-finals, came within inches of taking the host nation into overtime.
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Further amendments to the Wildlife Bill are still possible when it returns to the Assembly for the final stage before it passes into legislation.
Gen Sir Mike Jackson, former head of the British army, told the BBC that Britain must decide its future role on the global stage before spending decisions were taken.
"See you in three years, " Clapton told the crowd before exiting the stage.
McIlroy, bidding to become the youngest winner on the PGA Tour, was one off the lead at one stage before bogeying three of the last five holes.
Outside economists criticized the report for counting government-funded construction spending, and for assuming London could have any higher of a profile on the world stage than it did before the games.
The models clomped their way to the center of the Union Jack stage before being whisked away.
Fisher's home course Wentworth used to stage the tournament before it was switched to Finca Cortesin near Marbella.
At another, the band set up a drum machine and weighed down the keys of a synthesizer before leaving the stage.
It was Wariner who had looked the likely winner at the mid-race stage before Benjamin and Washington made their moves, but Benjamin said the contact made no difference to the outcome.
It was heartbreaking for a Paraguay side that had never reached the quarter-final stage before, and who earlier wasted a superb chance to take the lead when Oscar Cardozo's spot-kick was saved by Iker Casillas.
And the two high priests of Parliament, Sir Robert Rogers, the Clerk of the Commons, and his Lords opposite number, David Beamish, Clerk of the Parliaments, stage a joint appearance before the Joint Committee on Parliamentary Privilege.
In 2010, at 16, she became the first Englishwoman to win a medal at the Commonwealth Games, taking home the bronze, and added silver at the World Youth Games the following year before hitting the big stage at London 2012.
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The Scot was severely hampered over the last few miles of the 13-mile long stage before managing to fit a spare at the end of the timed section.
Then, peers turn to another private member's bill from the Commons, the third reading of the Antarctic Bill - before resuming the report stage of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill .
With so much at stake, analysts said Clinton needed a very strong performance in the debate, the only time the two candidates will share a stage in Texas before the state's primary.
Westwood, in fact, was three clear of the field on five under at one stage before sliding back on the inward run.
They have also insisted that local authorities ensure there are no parked cars on the last 8-10km of the route before the finish on each stage.
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And supporters angry at his departure and Ashley's running of the club are due to stage demonstrations before, during and after the home game against Hull City on Saturday.
Though the talk was highly anticipated and the room was at capacity before Williams took the stage at 2 pm, halfway through the presentation people began losing interest, falling asleep and then making their way to the exit.
Barack Obama won Mississippi's primary and Wyoming's caucus by wide margins in the last stage of the Democratic presidential nomination process before Pennsylvanians vote on April 22nd.
The tournament format sees the eight teams split into two groups of four for a round-robin stage, before the top two teams from each group progress to knock-out semi-finals and then the final on June 28.
Given the majority of the media nailed the iPhone 5 details before Cook took to the stage, will Apple be able to keep the iPad Mini details under wraps?
Reports said that the globally successful 19-year-old took a three-minute break after the on-stage fracas before returning to sing Boyfriend and then Baby.
MPs passed the bill at report stage before deciding to give it a third reading by 320 votes to 227, majority 93, on 11 October 2011.
It wasn't in any way an ordinary night before the stage, but in the context of things it was a way to get through the day.
The show, staged at what must have been vast expense, featured brief appearances from a couple of Samsung executives before the stage was taken over by a cast of actors.
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