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

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.”

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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Green Bay's huge new signing Parsons got a rousing reception at Lambeau Field and, despite playing only 29 of 65 snaps, showed exactly what he can do for the Packers.

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It was a rousing farewell for Mary Roy, fierce and untamed in life and on the page.

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

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