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The prime minister has been given a rousing welcome in India, with thousands of photos of him and Modi lining parts of Mumbai that the two leaders will travel through on Thursday.

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There, her starring role in the stage musical Carousel involved her singing the rousing You'll Never Walk Alone.

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Colbert had already gotten a rousing standing ovation Sunday when he presented the first award of the evening.

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He received rousing applause when he told the crowd: “This is not a battle of right versus left, this is a battle of good versus evil.”

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However, he seemed to have succeeded at the 2009 Labour Party conference when Mandelson delivered a rousing speech to despondent delegates, telling them: "If I can come back, we can come back."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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