Our next step was to organise a lobby of the next meeting of the Housing Committee. |
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He arrived in central lobby at one, on the dot, twinkling and cherubic, and amazingly upright and steady. |
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Once through the lobby and up a small set of stairs, we entered our living area, with its dark panelled walls and leather chesterfield sofas. |
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Superannuants are often better educated, more politically astute and in a better position to lobby than pensioners. |
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Perhaps it is hardly surprising that police officers, or security officials or even civil servants lobby for more powers. |
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We meet in the lobby and take the lift together to a quiet bar with a panoramic view of the city. |
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Although the lobby and studio were lost, some of the 60-seat theatre was preserved in the cinder block building. |
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He told the court that customers who wanted to use the lobby had to swipe their card through a legitimate bank device to gain entry. |
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I carried Katie into the lobby of an Annapolis hotel and asked the desk clerk for a room. |
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Everyone in the lobby grabbed me for at least a so-so passion-intensive clinch. |
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Even hypochondriacs get sick, and the anti-discrimination lobby exists in part because real discrimination exists. |
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Labels sidestep payola laws by hiring independent promoters to lobby and compensate radio stations for playing certain records. |
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In the lobby of the gallery, he was represented by four large oils clumsily portraying celebrity lairs. |
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There was no one in the half lit lobby and at one end he saw a sign for a 24 hour coffee shop. |
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At long last, someone had beaten the powerful development lobby at City Hall. |
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In keeping with the festivities, the lobby of the collectorate has acquired great looks. |
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The hotel lobby was lavished with fancy furniture and expensive pictures hung on the wall. |
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The new organization set up a parliamentary committee in 1871 to lobby on legislation. |
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It does not just lobby in Brussels, but through its members' national federations it also lobbies the 25 European national governments. |
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He unwittingly communicated the virus to fellow guests in the lift or lobby of the hotel where he stayed before going to hospital. |
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The unions were organising a London weighting battle bus to tour round the picket lines, and pickets were to lobby the department of education. |
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But Australia's farming lobby says it fears the deal will allow some industrial nations to give only superficial access to their markets. |
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Universities, the most ineffective professional lobby in Britain, simply took this on the chin. |
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The current rating system and its computation is both cumbersome and inequitable and we need to lobby for a change. |
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Mentally and physically infirm, he stayed in the jail lobby for three days before anyone noticed him. |
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Soon the hotel began to resemble an infirmary, with dozens of guests in various stages of illness strewn around the lobby every night. |
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Frances Kelly says that inch by inch, the access lobby groups have demanded and received concessions, particularly in New South Wales. |
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To increase taxes now would be to raise the white flag and surrender to the poverty lobby and the liberal lefties and pinkos in the media. |
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It provides local activists with a tool to lobby city councils to urge their congresspersons to co-sponsor the legislation. |
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Many of the people who had sent letters of protest and joined the lobby were Conservative voters. |
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She was entering the lobby when a fireball exploded from the elevator shaft. |
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As well as serving as a lobby group to further the business interests of its members, it serves as a consultative body to government. |
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There we all were, cooling our heels in a hotel lobby waiting for our first appointments of the day. |
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Before turning in, we lingered at the big fireplace in the hotel lobby and treated ourselves to a hot chocolate and an Irish coffee. |
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These are the corporatists, and they exist in the media, think tanks, political parties, governments and lobby groups. |
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The lobby must also convince opponents of the scheme that costings will not run out of control. |
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He carried one of her small cases into the lobby of the building where a porter stepped forward to retrieve it. |
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When the elevator stopped, I walked down to the lobby and sat on the middle of the three couches, the couch that faced the front desk. |
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We were surrounded by the old-fashioned glamor of the lobby of the grandest hotel in this posh French seaside resort. |
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The lobby has been transformed into a funky pseudo-greenroom, cram-full of couches, armchairs and divans. |
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Into this cubic void, subsidiary planes of glass are placed so that the immediate lobby reads as a transparent box inside a larger, virtual box. |
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The front of the building is glass, so the entire lobby is clearly visible from the street, and from within the Ritz Carlton. |
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It is being run by advertising agents, frontbenchers and lobby correspondents. |
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A 10-foot fulgurite is being prepared for display in the lobby of UF's new engineering building. |
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Labour MPs and the powerful anti-hunt lobby are not really concerned about the fox. |
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Unfortunately the front of the gallery is completely open to the lobby eliminating any illusions about being trapped. |
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There were only two or three deans to address disciplinary issues, and a lone patrolman stood watch in the lobby of the school. |
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Now, a new pressure group of business and political leaders from throughout the north west has been set up to lobby for extra funds. |
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From delicate primrose yellow in the entrance lobby to changing colour washes in bedrooms, the place glows with colour. |
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The Hilton lobby was decorated beautifully with a huge Christmas tree, Santas and a balloon snowman. |
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I press my nose against the cool glass of the lobby door, and shade my eyes so I can see past the glare. |
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He lives in a posh, modern mid-rise, its lobby ablaze in polished surfaces that gleam like gold teeth. |
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Many food trends have come and gone since she became famous, and she remained unmoved, deriding the anti-butterfat lobby and other bores. |
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Every lobby group in the world tells me I am a goner unless I back their cause. |
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When I got to the hotel lobby it was deserted so I just left my room key behind the reception desk and headed out into the street. |
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Striding through the lobby with not so much as a glance at the other occupants, the man closed his umbrella and punched a button on the elevator. |
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Smooth gouges had been made in the floor, cut clean by some immeasurably fine blade in geometric patterns across the lobby floor. |
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There were very few people in the lobby but the purser was giving me odd looks. |
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The agendas of science and the animal rights lobby are diametrically opposed. |
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North Yorkshire County Council is to lobby the Government in an effort to reduce the use of disposable nappies. |
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The main lobby is cooled with a variety of custom displacement diffusers at each of the four floor levels. |
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The powerful farm lobby is not prepared to elaborate on its reportedly top level talks of recent days. |
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Each electrolier is linked to a corner of the lobby skylight by a narrow rootlike strip of ornament. |
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Acting as the conduit between the city and the symphony, the entry lobby bustles with energy day and night. |
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They do this because the environment lobby carries less clout that the vested interests of business. |
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Ironically, the principal lobby against completion of the road is its negative environmental impact. |
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We managed to lobby the government to let the private sector build and own an industrial estate. |
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You would you take an express elevator to a sky lobby and then switch to a local. |
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They entertained the crowds in parliament's lobby with drinking songs late into the night. |
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One thousand impoverished veterans and their families, calling themselves the Bonus Army, came to Washington in May to lobby for the bill. |
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He has waffled on doing away with the Patriot Act, courted the gun lobby and promised vigorous dialogue with the right. |
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As one entered the lobby of the Sullivan Court, one was greeted with a road-side trolley with hot jalebis topped with zaffrani rabdi. |
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All of the apartments are entered via D' Olier Street and are accessed via an impressive marble entrance lobby. |
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Half-seen in a corner of the lobby, three watchmen in greatcoats crouch over a brazier. |
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Of course, anyone organising such a lobby or leaflet needs to consult quickly with the best informed militants in the union. |
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Beyond the lobby is the auditorium and beyond that a sculpture garden, a lovely oasis of quietude at the rear of the lot. |
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Social Security reform has been a tough slog for the business lobby, normally more at home discussing golf outings than actuarial tables. |
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The court ruling followed a judicial review which was granted to the lobby group in October. |
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The lady in white wheeled my mother out of the visitors' lounge and across the lobby, with my father and me following along behind. |
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These new laws end a nine year battle by the disabled lobby to improve bus access for wheelchair users, the blind and the infirm. |
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The couple enjoyed a whirlwind romance after meeting each other in a Los Angeles hotel lobby in February. |
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To increase taxes now would be to raise the white flag and surrender to the poverty lobby. |
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An explosion blasted from the direction of the lobby, rattling the shelves and shaking the floor under them. |
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Sarah and I sat in one corner of the lobby, not exactly having ravenous appetites. |
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From delicate primrose yellow in the entrance lobby to changing colourwashes in bedrooms, the place glows with colour. |
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The Venezuelans should be here any minute and this lobby full of reporters is keyed up and ready to pounce. |
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The theatre goes black, and the red curtains part, and go back towards the wings as the stage lights go up to reveal the lobby of a small hotel. |
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Above the 9th-floor sky lobby is an open air shaft that creates a Mediterranean climate. |
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The latest proposals for the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy were given a hostile reception by the Irish farm lobby yesterday. |
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They laughed and hurried sheepishly downstairs, leaving the key on the reception desk in the hotel lobby. |
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If I wish an organization to lobby for my political beliefs, I will join such an organization. |
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In the old world, the worst the whips faced was having to push a slurring MP through the right division lobby. |
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Those of us who live in the provinces wonder at the obsessive efforts of some Tory politicians to ingratiate themselves with that lobby. |
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I wonder whether that is one of the questions that the member has been asked to ask by the anti-immunisation lobby. |
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We also have a mandate to lobby government, and we seek to build a broad alliance of individuals and organizations that share common goals. |
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Moorish archways and arabesque screens slip a lattice of shadows across the comings and goings in the lobby. |
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The answer included the launching of various legal challenges and the creation of an anglophone lobby group. |
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The reluctance of lawgivers to push conversion to the metric system is due mainly of these three objections by the fundamentalist lobby. |
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Ad Campaign shows some examples of the poster and lobby card advertising used in the 1941 original release and the 1956 re-release campaigns. |
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The company will even lobby local government to change zoning regulations in order to get the location they want. |
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Some newspaper reports say that two of the protesters are Anglo-Indian, and the others are members of Solidarios con Itoiz, a Basque lobby group. |
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The lobby is inhabited by several anonymous figures in white jumpsuits and hoods wearing surgical masks. |
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The report was compiled by a wide spectrum of scientists from both pro and anti lobby groups and was chaired by the government's chief scientist. |
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If there is evidence of moral cowardice and a lack of conviction among the pro-war lobby, however, it is more than matched among the antis. |
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Although Britain has a vocal anti-abortion lobby opposed to embryo research, it is very much in the minority. |
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Does the anti-abortion lobby demand that a pregnancy continue if the mother's life is in danger? |
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But this is an image used by the anti-abortion lobby and it generates heat in an emotive area. |
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The use of images of fetuses has generally been a favoured tactic of the anti-abortion lobby. |
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The anti-abortion lobby argues that a fetus is a person who is entitled to civil rights. |
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This constant reference to the foetus as a baby has become common coin for the anti-abortion lobby. |
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All dilemmas can be resolved, say the anti-abortion lobby, if the starting point is the foetus rather than the woman. |
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And the anti-monarchist lobby has been strong enough to put the Queen in the list. |
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Businesses also ought to lobby for the development of vaccines against rhinoviruses and other causes of the common cold. |
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And there is his body lying in state, in repose in the main lobby of the Reagan Presidential Library. |
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The antivivisection lobby has in the past claimed that we can use computer models of organisms instead of real animals. |
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I remember we ran into the lobby and apologetically asked where the restroom was. |
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Pensioners' charities and lobby groups are appalled at the problems we are storing up for the future. |
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The New York Times reports that the pharmaceutical barons are the most powerful lobby in Washington. |
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They and the conservation lobby continue to hope that their efforts to preserve the city's heritage will soon get an official stamp of approval. |
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An arched timber entrance door opens up into a lobby with a stained wooden floor, a leaded-style window and moulded coving. |
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A timber staircase leads from the entrance lobby to the first floor and the remaining five bedrooms. |
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The lobby at the new entrance hosts social events and displays technological products. |
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Access to this property is via an entrance lobby which leads to a wide and spacious reception area. |
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That and the daylighting serve to ameliorate the tight spaces of the upper lobby. |
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A glazed tunnel set slightly off axis leads down through the treelined courtyard into the entrance lobby, one level below ground. |
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Clad in bright green glass tiles, the entrance lobby leads to a restful white panelled ante room. |
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The lobby was right near the entrance to the building, so I assumed the common room would be similarly close. |
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An entrance lobby leads to the sitting room, which has polished timber floors and a charming cast iron fireplace. |
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She received her first term of imprisonment in February 1908 for entering the lobby of the House of Commons. |
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Yes, and the parliamentary clones dutifully trooped through the division lobby to vote for war. |
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Of course, when I first came into this House every member, individually, had to vote and had to declare that vote in the lobby. |
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The mix of consensus and disagreement shows itself also in the division lobby. |
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I am sure that not many of those on the Labour side of the select committee will go through the Ayes lobby and vote for the bill to continue. |
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When she comes to see me, I will advise her that partisan politics in a lobby group such as Federated Farmers is not a very good idea. |
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American lobby groups try to seek a legal way to attack that peg, which hurts their interests they say. |
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Under pressure from the agrochemical lobby, the British government has dropped plans to tax agricultural pesticide use. |
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But it is hoping that a lobby of councillors it is organising on Thursday will make such protests unnecessary. |
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A lobby of the governors' meeting is planned on Tuesday 20 May at 6pm and other local schools are being asked to build for it. |
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All the speakers called for the biggest possible turnout for the lobby of the Scottish Labour Party conference in Dundee on 4 March. |
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Trades unionist Brian Anderson helped organise a major lobby of councillors as they entered the Guildhall for last week's showdown. |
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Activists are planning a lobby of the High Court in central London when the dates of the trial are known. |
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Glasgow Campaign to Defend Council Housing held a lobby of the Glasgow City Council meeting on Thursday of last week. |
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Strikers called another lobby of the Liberal Democrat controlled council this week. |
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The union plans to organise a lobby of the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth this September over manufacturing job losses. |
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The coalition urged demonstrators to lobby their senators and representatives to stop the war and the attack on civil liberties. |
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Now had also launched a campaign which was seeking to lobby senators both in their home states and in the Senate itself. |
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National lobby groups are battling against the ad budgets of brand name giants. |
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National and local lobby groups joined forces in an effort to stop plans for a number of larger farms. |
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Two influential business lobby groups endorsed the general idea of a trust fund. |
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Welfare lobby groups had urged that homelessness and mental illness be considered exemptions, but this was rejected. |
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The rummage sale will be held from 10 am to 5pm in the lobby of the school. |
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There is a lot he can do to make life difficult for a candidate he has deliberately chosen to lobby against. |
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Those who had been reading the runes over the past few months knew that the Executive was being worn down by the lobby groups. |
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It is asking fellow supporters to join association members for the lobby, which will take place in Westminster Hall between noon and 3pm. |
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He took my hand and rushed me down the hall towards the elevators and then through the lobby. |
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The furniture in her room was as luxurious and expensive as the furniture in the lobby. |
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On my way from the lobby I had been musing over a tactful way to approach the interview. |
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In the melee, the mace that symbolizes the authority of the legislature was carried away and was later found in a lobby used by parliamentarians. |
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I pulled on my tankini, and grabbed a towel, and went back down to the lobby, and went to the pool. |
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He's given in to the persistent, powerful and rich aviation industry lobby. |
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I could see the yellow police tape inside marking out the space where the jumper had landed, somewhere near the middle of the lobby. |
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University candidates must lobby their electoral college by means of a mailshot to their tens of thousands of voters. |
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Now, however, the vast lobby is eerily silent save a single discordant chord struck repeatedly by a piano tuner. |
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In Bandung city, despite the president's call, decorative lights in the lobby of the Bandung City Council building were burning bright. |
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We made our way into the lobby, where about a million other giggly, screaming girls dressed in ridiculously scanty things were frolicking. |
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Once word of the network hit the papers, the telco and service provider lobby swung into action. |
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One uncomfortable elevator ride later, Jude and Texas emerged into the busy lobby of the Plaza, pushing their overloaded cart in front of them. |
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When I had the temerity to refer to this survey in a newspaper column, the wrath of a very substantial and vocal lobby came down upon my head. |
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This saw a rather more elevated temperature of debate than the lobby group was probably expecting. |
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The Lever House lobby is relatively low-ceilinged and elegantly finished in polished steel and green terrazzo. |
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Soon the protestors moved in to fill the lobby outside the lecture theatre. |
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As he strode across the lobby, I saw an elderly man, thickset and tough, who resembled an oil tycoon. |
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The simple set is ingeniously transformed from teen bedroom to hotel lobby to seedy bar. |
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They lobby local and national government on behalf of businesses and organisations. |
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The team is expected to lobby several political parties in a bid to win their support for the ticket in the runoff, he said. |
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In the lobby a lady from the Nolebela Tribe was painting murals on a traditional mud hut and doing beadwork as well. |
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Checking the tightness of the straps one last time, he headed back to the lobby. |
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But because Heavenly Father loves me and because my Granny pays her tithing, someone happened to be walking through the lobby and let me in. |
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It's basically, a begging letter for money, with little factsheets you can download for each borough you can use to lobby your MP with. |
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Behind them in the lobby, the manger and several of the bellmen were scrambling towards the elevator. |
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Once we enter the residential lobby we encounter the city's shadowland of mirage. |
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They walked downstairs into the lobby and they walked outside where there was a town car waiting for them. |
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A member shall indicate his vote by raising his or her hand or by going into a lobby. |
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They will have to lobby mightily in the halls of Congress on behalf of broadening their nation's version of perestroika. |
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A mixer held in the auditorium lobby preceded the main event, between long tables loaded with promotional material and association hawkers. |
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Political parties have set up booths in different districts while party workers have been mobilised to lobby residents to register. |
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Like a typical American wife, she showed her irritation and hurt, right there in the airport lobby. |
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Twenty-one years on and the same old collection of ideas are trotted out from the business lobby. |
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The lobby was designed so that natural light almost shrank back out of fear as soon as you reached Slotland. |
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I was still pulling on my mohair sweater over my black t-shirt when I ran into Geri in the lobby. |
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As soon as the lobby server receives a request from the player to connect, it will read all current game tuples from the global tuple space. |
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Jack sighed and paced through the lobby, attempting to contemplate what to do next. |
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I had to mop the marble lobby floors that morning, and got right to work, hoping that I would not have to see Tom. |
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He took the move of labelling the nation's biggest farm lobby groups as silver tails and irrelevant. |
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They could also lobby Bradford Council to ensure gullies are cleared and drains unblocked. |
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An impromptu march included several sit-downs, blocking of roads and a lobby of the constituency office. |
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Principle features such as the entrance foyer, upper lobby and auditorium would be left unchanged. |
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The anti-monarchy lobby insist that the monarch is a burden on the taxpayer and undemocratic. |
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In perioperative and gastroenterology settings, nurses can lobby to replace mercury-containing bougies. |
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However, the event was boycotted by leading figures and lobby groups who alleged the protest was too politically-motivated. |
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Bollywood was for the masses, its excrescences like posters and billboards and lobby cards just so much kitsch. |
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The business lobby is poised to fight to maintain the number, but with the economy soft, it's likely to be an uphill battle. |
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A lobby area leads from here to a utility room and a shower room with part-tiled walls. |
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In the lobby they have brochures that indicate what services the hotel can provide. |
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Employees were milling around the lobby preparing for the night shift to come in. |
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For dining and entertainment, the property will offer five options including a casual and a speciality restaurant, a lobby lounge and three bars. |
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The concession stand sat at the back of the lobby and if some new kid happened to be on duty, the place probably smelled of burned popcorn. |
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But such extra burdens hardly help business, which now needs to lobby for joined-up tax reform. |
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She patiently waited in the lobby of the delivery room, but the little girl, Camille, had other ideas, and squalled mercilessly. |
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The politicians, business interests and journalists that were part of the Indonesian lobby in Australia did use racial stereotyping. |
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Organisations that lobby for business interests are themselves in a very competitive game. |
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The atrium lobby acts as a stack, with horizontal vents at floor and ceiling. |
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The hotel lobby begins to fill up around seven as the rich and famous filter in to drink whisky and caipirinhas. |
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The lobby and hallways were just like any normal building, nothing too special. |
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Before long, Hoffman found himself in the grand lobby of a stately mansion. |
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The clouds that had been hanging low and threatening in the lobby appeared to have gathered heaviest on the 24th floor. |
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He made three trips, usually with a carload of farmers, to the state Capitol to lobby for its passage. |
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A gallery of production stills and lobby cards show his lighting and composition genius in a still-life context. |
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The modern concierge oozes efficiency, dresses to co-ordinate with his lobby and provides security for residents. |
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The lobby in Westminster is believed by many to have been based originally on a Masonic order. |
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But even they were outdone by the ice cream men, who produced the noisiest lobby I have ever heard. |
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We have certain core issues we lobby on, including the sanctity of innocent human life, chastity, marriage and the traditional family. |
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The door into the lobby opened again, the sound of voices chattering excitedly. |
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We have suggested to the Mayors that they form a League of Cities to lobby for a better deal. |
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I stayed there on holiday last summer and the lobby looks nothing like that and there were way more tourists. |
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Several FBU regions backed a lobby of this week's pay talks. |
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Martin peers through an ajar door which opens into the lobby. |
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Kids with less powerful squirt guns lobby parents and grandparents for more expensive, more powerful squirters, lest they be too weak to play the game. |
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The union is organising a lobby of parliament for next Wednesday. |
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There was set to be a lobby of the national executive meeting. |
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The corporations are a strong lobby group in Alaska's capital since they not only control lands and assets but represent over 16,000 Tlingit and Haida shareholders. |
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The union is planning a lobby of the Welsh Assembly on Monday 21 October. |
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Elements of the pro-Israel lobby have also been on Capitol Hill lobbying for a resumption of U.S. aid to Egypt. |
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Theater patrons can also expect a stunning view, as the new facility's lobby will project out to near the edge of the bluffs in a bridge-like cantilever over the park. |
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The CWA is planning a full-scale lobby day next Wednesday, Cohen said, in an effort to twist the arms of recalcitrant lawmakers. |
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Instead of entering straight through the original front door, Moray created a lobby off the hallway with a storm door to prevent cold air streaming inside. |
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Some of those rabbis enlisted friends or colleagues to lobby us insistently. |
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The trio haunted east coast flea markets, sourcing knickknacks that would adorn the lobby and guest rooms. |
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It is a sad reflection on this government's priorities that it is quite happy to overfund the roads lobby while leaving people on hospital trollies. |
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There was a strange lack of activity at the Astoria when Astor looked in at the end of the afternoon after wiping a swipe card through a reader to gain access to the lobby. |
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A lobby of the meeting was due to take place to show the strength of support for the sacked librarians and to urge the university to reinstate them. |
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For a visit to luxury land, time travel back to the glorious age of Art Deco in this chichi restaurant that overlooks the lush lobby of Hotel de la Montagne. |
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The hotel's 24-hour business centre is on the lobby level and has photocopying, translation, fax, telex, computer word processing and courier services. |
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A hundred or so of us huddled together in the shelter of the lobby of the Hibiya Town Hall, where I had a strong sense of not being in my natural milieu. |
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The motoring lobby had been protesting, like so many schoolboys banned from baking their conkers, that concealed speed cameras were a rotten swizz. |
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The lobby was just a few paces away, literally humming with activity. |
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There is an ocean of dark wood throughout, especially teak, and ceilings, particularly that in the lobby, are designed to look like the interior of a ship. |
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Construction crews bustled about and the front door through which Hayes and Gilbert led me revealed an old entry hall being refashioned into a suave, modern lobby. |
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Sugar beet growers in Yorkshire were urged yesterday to lobby their MPs in a bid to water down reforms that could put thousands of jobs in the UK at risk. |
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The master bedroom overlooks the front garden and includes a pedestal wash hand basin, while the second bedroom is located off a tiled lobby that adjoins the kitchen. |
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Meanwhile, back at home, businesses have very strong lobby groups that exert massive pressure on the government to not pass any regulative legislation. |
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When penetrated, the system locks down the lobby and alerts security. |
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The gun control lobby engages in emotional brainwashing to further its attempts at disarming the American people. |
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The Harrogate resident began a campaign to restrict the use of fireworks and became part of a national lobby group that petitioned MPs for change. |
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Irish designer Paul Costelloe has turned the tables on the anti-hunt political lobby and reintroduced fur and feathers to his autumn 2002 couture collections. |
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The Government cannot use the economic downturn as an excuse to backtrack on assistance promised to the disabled in next month's budget, a lobby group declared yesterday. |
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The columned lobby which doubles as the main office, spells opulence. |
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Yorkshire is a lone voice in trying to lobby Whitehall to see if we can get fatstock markets classified as slaughter points so that the 20-day ban is not triggered. |
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Yesterday's white bread speech was cleverly pitched over the heads of the commentariat and the lobby groups, straight into middle class lounge rooms. |
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I chased a tight-lipped Thain as he scurried through the lobby to get back to his headquarters. |
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The Hope post office is staffed only 4 hours a day, but the lobby doors are unlocked around the clock so that residents can access their post-office boxes. |
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It's the last straw when that lobby also sets up itself as the civility police. |
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It is their job to lobby politicians and persuade them to suppress, depress, repress, oppress, or do what ever it takes to maintain a grip on the price of silver. |
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Conservative hit man turned liberal media critic David Brock, spotted smoking an e-cigarette in the lobby. |
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Last week we organised a lobby of the Lib Dem council to save our school. |
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This created a good incentive for the other justices to lobby the infirm one to step down. |
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To make this happen, we have to elect legislators who are willing to stand up to the gun lobby. |
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Perhaps the anti-gambling lobby group has a person on the inside, confounding design plans, adding irrelevant bells, whistles and flashing lights. |
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Off to one side of the lobby now, I spied a bank of elevators. |
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Most of England's professional health bodies and lobby groups are opposed. |
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Similarly, in homage to China's astronomical achievements, an armillary sphere stands in the middle of the lobby of the Purple Mountain Hotel and has become its emblem. |
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Heaving another sigh, he jogged down the stairs to the lobby of the venue and made his way across to the side door which would lead him round to the backstage. |
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This has caused widespread opposition from the anti-abortion lobby. |
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In May, the House roundly rejected two major voucher bills, but as new proposals spring up, advocates on both sides continue to lobby around the issue. |
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Most of the hotel's original features, including the stunningly plush and spacious Column Bar in the lobby, and its art nouveau design have been meticulously preserved. |
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For the strident opposition to gun ownership that characterizes the antigun lobby foredooms the cooperation that is essential if better controls are to be enacted and obeyed. |
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Leading up to the lobby, its glass doors proudly displaying the Union symbol in frosted white, was a wide flight of steps, ascending gently from the sidewalk. |
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But there is grit too, illustrated well in his persistent cross-questioning of Tony Blair's press secretary Alastair Campbell during a lobby briefing. |
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The cricket team sunk to their lowest depths yesterday after losing an impromptu game of French cricket against the hotel staff in the lobby of the Bangalore Marriott. |
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It will also feature a lobby lounge and bar, a pool bar and a night club. |
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Change the location from a hotel lobby to an airport check-in desk and this crazy scenario becomes all too familiar. |
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I was interning at MTV in Santa Monica and they sent me down to the lobby to escort DJ AM up the elevator to my boss' office. |
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Do members remember the scandal when it was revealed that taxpayers' money was funnelled through a public relations firm to get people to lobby members of Parliament? |
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If we campaign against any new nuclear power build, and rely on such statements, it might interest the local community and those in the anti-nuclear lobby. |
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I need my little musical rhythm to wrap me up and shush me tenderly as I wonder about the black-haired girl, and the basilisks in the hotel lobby. |
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In the lobby of the police station in Court Square, he looked up from his notepad, squinting at the gaslight after a long engagement with a sheet of paper. |
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The problem is that some powerful lobby groups seem dead set against new technologies just because they are new, and promoted by private industry. |
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I heard Matt shout as I followed the bellhop across the lobby. |
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This decision is about pretending Charles is impartial while he continues to lobby in favour of his own political agenda. |
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That night, after the run-through of the show, I had a glass of wine in the lobby bar and was introduced to a musician whose recordings with him are lovely and legendary. |
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The gun lobby is currently funding lawsuits all over America, trying to invalidate local, state, and federal gun restrictions. |
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Last week, I sat down with Kristen Stewart in the lobby lounge of the Greenwich Hotel in downtown New York. |
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I enter the post office and take my place at the back of the line that stretches from the counter all the way through the large room, out the door, and into the lobby area. |
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It is also less likely to be hijacked by frivolous requests or by demands for unrealistically large quantities of material by one particular lobby group. |
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Tenants, trade unionists and MPs took part in a lobby of Tower Hamlets council, east London this week in support of a council press officer who faces the sack. |
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John Henry is speaking to an acquaintance in the lobby and a beautiful young woman, followed closely behind by a companion, is descending the stairs. |
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They get small presents from the fossil fuel lobby, and they give them big ones, paid for with our money. |
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The main hallway leads to a lobby and, through another massive arch, into what would have been the living quarters of the original tower house, now the library. |
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In the lobby of the Tel Aviv Opera House, tall barmaids in red sequins served wine in plastic goblets with labels declaring the sponsorship of the Bezeq telephone company. |
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Eventually she came around and when I was 30, she accompanied me to hannover to confront him in the lobby of the Hotel Luisenhof. |
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