The area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir; often enclosed by a lattice or railing.
1 He's the Adonis of the rostrum, the Apollo Belvidere of the bema .
2 Still it rejoiced him to hear the noble truths of democracy delivered as it were from the bema .
3 His friends and relatives tried in vain to stop him making himself ridiculous and being dragged down from the bema .
4 Up on the bema , the rabbi is welcoming the congregation, and telling them how good it is to worship with everyone.
5 Looking out from his place at the foot of the pillar, he saw a man standing far off in the lofty bema .
6 His first attempt to speak in public proved a failure, and he retired from the bema amidst the hootings and laughter of the citizens.
7 There is a handsome chair for the presiding officer upon the Bema itself.
8 There is some little clapping, mixed with jeering, as he mounts the Bema .
9 Bema : a raised place in Athens whence the orators addressed assemblies of the people.
10 At a nod from the president, he mounts the Bema and assumes the myrtle.
11 BEMA Fentanyl is a small, oral adhesive disc applied to the inner cheek lining.
12 From a place directly before the Bema a well-known figure, the elderly general, Iphicrates, is rising.
13 It met on the Pnyx hill, where the assembled Ecclesiasts were addressed from the Bema , or speaking-block.
14 When Iphicrates quits the Bema there is little left of Timon's fine "Earth, Sky and Justice."
15 BioDelivery said the product, BEMA Fentanyl, produced a statistically significant reduction in pain at 30 minutes compared with a placebo.
16 One-a speedy rumor tells us-is ,earlierand later in the day, a rising comic poet; the other is not infrequently heard on the Bema .
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