Jason Yip, a principal consultant at ThoughtWorks in Sydney, Australia, plays music such as Bob Marley's "Get Up, Stand Up, " to round up colleagues.
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The president did not acknowledge that today, but gave us the same talk about simply staying as long as it takes to get them to stand up.
In response Vietnam, which has chafed at China's efforts to stop Western oil companies signing offshore oil exploration deals quietly led a lobbying attempt to get America to stand up for South-East Asia.
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MRS. OBAMA: As you know, from last night, I get embarrassed when people stand up and clap for me. (Laughter.) I don't really know what to do.
And we couldn't get a Republican to stand up and say, we'll raise some revenue, or even to suggest that we won't give more tax cuts to people who don't need them.
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If they can't get the public to stand up and cheer them on this issue, they'll just keep looking for another issue to try to smear Clinton and then another one and another one, etc.
Of course, if you have plans to press charges against your troll or sue him or her you may need to take the more laborious route to get the evidence to stand up in court.
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Which is why so many of them have taken on the mantle of social activism, articulating the social and political undercurrents debated in secret gatherings of Middle Eastern intellectuals through works that stand up and get noticed.
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You folks are tougher than any tough time. (Applause.) When we get knocked down we stand back up. (Applause.) Some workers lost their jobs -- they went back to community college, got retrained and now have got a new job.
But what else are you -- is your administration doing to kind of I guess help us stand up when we get out of college?
We are seeing more women with the passion to get involved and the courage to stand up and put themselves out there on the national scene.
You get your grass-roots movement fired up to stand up and do something.
But whenever the American people stand up, whenever you get involved, whenever you participate, then amazing things happen -- because the American people have great instincts.
Mr Neil also said Scotland had not had their share of BBC license money and said: "stand up for Scotland and get us our share of the money".
The prime minister saw in Mr Hutton a tough-minded technocrat who would get on top of the detail and stand up to the inevitable bullying from the Treasury.
The story of the past three decades or more has been one of successive prime ministers promising to get a grip on media standards - and stand up to powerful vested interests - and ultimately failing to act.
You could still find rubber tires here and there, but you couldn't get patch kits or the kinds of adhesives that would stand up to a repair job anymore, so we had no choice but to go back to wooden wheels with iron rims.
MPs of all colours felt the need to stand up and vote together, if only to get themselves noticed.
So slowly that after a century of tree planting, the locals tell you that if you do get lost in an Icelandic forest all you have to do is stand up.
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Tee off on the Cascata Golf Club's rolling greens, or get your outdoor fix by biking, hiking, fishing or even stand-up paddle boarding.
Hitherto, Mr Pangalos had been seen as a shrewd politician who could both stand up to Turkey and work the system in Brussels to get cash and concessions for Greece.
"We were able through Nato to stand up with command and control, we were able to get our assets moving very quickly, we were more than capable within the limitations we had to get our air power projected... to ensure that we had Typhoon and Tornado performing very effectively, of course very recently adding in our Apache attack helicopters, " he said.
The only true way we'll see Congress get its act together is if you -- the voters -- actually stand up and say, "Enough is enough!"
The work that you've done to get this going has been tremendous. (Applause.) Yeah, stand up!
We will soon be launching Stand Up, Speak Up - a chance for everyone in this country to get involved in shaping the next Conservative manifesto.
To be sure, stand-up acts aren't the only ones getting paid big bucks to get laughs.
However, in too many cases, this circumstance is the result of potential beneficiaries being actively discouraged from signing up by states who stand to financially benefit by making it difficult for potential enrollees to get in the program.
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