But the weather was on Mr Roustan's side yesterday as clear-blue skies and sunshine
beamed down on him during the event.
Paris Hilton
beamed down from Planet Hollywood along with Desperate Housewives coat-hanger Nicolette Sheridan to add a spot of glamour to the National TV Awards.
-- Satellite signals
beamed down to military warplanes, unmanned aircraft, ground stations or vehicles are affected by a range of disruptive phenomena--enemy jammers, atmospheric white noise or weather.
The pictures were hurriedly
beamed down so Nasa could determine whether Discovery's belly sustained any launch damage from ice or insulating foam from the fuel tank.
Beamed down from a higher culture to sit in judgment alongside Ladette to Lady deputy headmistress Rosemary Shrager, former Times restaurant critic Jonathan Meades was excruciatingly out of place.
And as the autumn sun
beamed down through the trees, they were hard at work installing the massive chillers needed to create the rink.
Brothers Luke and Jake Shepherd, aged seven and four, from Brookfield, gazed in star-struck amazement as the two aliens
beamed down on them.
NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) is responsible for capturing and managing the terabytes of data
beamed down every day by 5 orbiting satellites, observing the land surface, oceans, biosphere and atmosphere of the Earth.
Until the Queer Eye
beamed down on it, Bravo's biggest star was James Lipton, whose weekly fawnfest, Inside the Actors Studio, was the only thing drawing an audience.
Monsters, Bond girls, sci-fi stars and cult characters have
beamed down to the Midlands for a wacky weekend.
As the sun
beamed down Andrey Bezruchenko, part of the visiting Moscow State Circus, attempted to make the longest distance somersault from a trampoline.
Their solution would permit satellite companies to broadcast "local-to-local" so long as they
beamed down all the area's stations, a satellite version of cable's must-carry rules.
This, from an essay entitled "Culture": "I remember when we first arrived here on the Starship Brigitte how we
beamed down on a 4/4 beat, how we used to stay up all night, high on rhubarb, playing our music and watching the eyes in the dark, encircling our campfire.
Trouble is, most of the Coralli-Perrot choreography for Giselle and Albrecht's solos and duets has been retained, which makes the couple look as if they have been
beamed down from another era.
Beauty Alfre Woodard kept a big secret from her fans when she
beamed down to Scotland.