And his aides made sure the convention hall was packed with 3,000 placard-waving fans, a stark contrast to the half-empty hall on Wednesday.

Idris sat at the top of the half-empty hall.

As a consequence, when Representative Johnson struck the pro-choice chord at the end of her speech, the decibel level in the half-empty hall changed only momentarily as an almost imperceptible applause rose from a few loyalists willing to identify themselves.

E Map Opposite the State Museum of Fine Arts, classical Western as well as local productions play in this elegant building to half-empty halls.

The second performance of the opera in Graz was greeted by a half-empty hall of audience.

Which meant moving from a cosy intimate chat to addressing a huge, half-empty hall.

I often conducted Sibelius in half-empty halls after the war in Vienna.

I shall get myself a bit into training, too,' he said, looking at himself in a dusty mirror in the half-empty hall.

It is a disgrace that in this empty, half-empty, or practically empty hall, we Bulgarians are at each other's throats.

Recalling his state's Kentucky Derby, Mr. McConnell valiantly tried to persuade the half-empty hall that there was more than a first-place bet on Mr. Bush on the board; there was a trifecta, a wager in which the bettor picks the first three finishers.