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Conductor in sentence

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Consent should not be snatched away, like a train ticket held out for the conductor.
Directly across the aisle from me, there was Putin, sitting between the one-time dissident cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich and his equally famous wife, opera diva Galina Vishnevskaya.
The conductor, Lorin Maazel, who chose a program of Wagner, Dvorak, Gershwin, and Bernstein, was less cynical.
Likewise, the US could have fulfilled its normal role as the conductor of the international economic orchestra.
Vice President Richard Cheney was in effect lead conductor of the group when he served as Chairman of Halliburton, the world's largest oil services company.
The IMF is the body best suited to serve as a trusted adviser and an effective conductor of the global policy orchestra.
America’s inward turn, already underway for several years, has been particularly consequential, because it leaves the world order without a main conductor.
While the conductor led the orchestra in a breathtaking performance, the true maestro of the evening was Merkel.
Valery Gergiev, the renowned conductor of the Kirov (now Mariinsky) Opera in St. Petersburg, was pleased by the President's direct interest in his new production of Prokofiev's opera War and Peace; as was Nani Bregvadze, a legendary Georgian singer, whom Putin begged on his knees to sing for him after missing her concert at the Moscow Conservatory.
Both passenger and conductor profit.
The conductor stopped her, saying that ticketed passengers were not allowed on the train!
Ultimately, as with other flawed stars, such as the conductor Herbert von Karajan, “we keep watching genius at work and separate what may now be classified as ‘no go.’”
The conductor from his raised seat helped to pass the bouquets, and rearranged his white tie.
He tried not to let his mind wander nor to let his impression of the music be marred by looking at the white-tied conductor's arm-waving, which always so unpleasantly distracts one's attention from the music; nor by the ladies with their bonnets, the ribbons of which were so carefully tied over their ears for the concert, nor by all those other persons who were either not interested in anything or were interested in all sorts of things other than music.
It was thought that it would be crushed to fragments and fly to powder, when suddenly it sank in one block, drunk down by the earth, melted like a colossal candle; and nothing was left, not even the point of the lightning conductor.
In fact, water is a better conductor of sound than air, and under the waves noises carry four times as fast.
'That line of Latin will be your lightning conductor in this place, when I have gone.
Drawing near his conductor, therefore, the leader commenced a confidential dialogue.
"Just hurry up like a good fellow and give a shilling to the conductor, who has been exceedingly civil to me during the journey."
I stayed here about six weeks; and then my conductor led me back to a country village, about six miles from Liverpool, where her brother (as she called him) came to visit me in his own chariot, and in a very good figure, with two footmen in a good livery; and the next thing was to make love to me.
Don Quixote and Sancho mounted once more, and with the same music and acclamations reached their conductor's house, which was large and stately, that of a rich gentleman, in short; and there for the present we will leave them, for such is Cide Hamete's pleasure.
Sheriff offered him a cigar in the smoking-room of the Pullman, and when Dave Lewis, the conductor, came through, Tarvin hailed him as an old friend, and made him come back and join them when he had gone his rounds.
The conductor told them that he had the president of the Three C.'s on behind in a special car, with his party.
The conductor laughed, and said he wasn't a director of the road not himself; but when he had left them to go about his duties he came back, after a time, to say that the president had been asking whom he could recommend at Topaz as a fair-minded and public-spirited man, able to discuss in a reasonable spirit the question of the Three C.'s coming to Topaz.
The conductor told him that he had two such gentlemen on board his train at that moment, and the president sent word to them by him that he would be glad to have a little talk with them if they would come back to his car.
The conductor presented Tarvin and Sheriff to the president when he had led them back to his private car, and the president made them both known to his young wife, a blonde of twenty-five, consciously pretty and conspicuously bridal, by whose side Tarvin placed himself with his instant perception.
To make sure that the right story went back to the town, he told the conductor of the train, in strict confidence, while he smoked his usual cigar with him, about a little placer-mining scheme in Alaska which he was going there to nurse for a while.
The conductor embarrassed him for a moment by asking what he was going to do about his election meanwhile; but Tarvin was ready for him here too.
They thought that because the conductor of your train brought back word that you said you were going to Alaska, and they didn't believe that.
It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light.
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