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It seems to be a clear indication of the dangerous influence of the lobbies of proprietary software manufacturers on the commission.

Almost three years after it was announced, Surface is still a novelty in a few hotel lobbies and retail stores.

The reform of the international financial architecture should not be dictated by the priorities of the financial market lobbies .

It fact, lobbies may be both-vehicles for the representation of interests, and people with suitcases full of money.

Months after opening, the decorated lobbies and restaurants of the latest Financial Street hotels are often empty on a typical weekday.

Sweeping talk of a free-trade area is one thing; negotiating a deal quite another, requiring an attack on entrenched lobbies.

As part of the initiative, UK Trade & Investment, which lobbies overseas, will help to promote London as a financial centre.

However, business lobbies say it could be ruinous if the reactors do not reopen.

Office workers confront this familiar sight every workday: lobbies full of people impatiently waiting for the next elevator.

Theatre lobbies were filled with a vociferous crowd during the intermission.

The protectionist lobbies that have wreaked havoc during past economic downturns are weaker or more ambivalent this time round.

General appearance of the buildings: dirty wall of lobbies and stairwells. . .

Even as they try to shape pending regulations, business lobbies are also looking beyond President Bush.

Maybe stop cleaning the floors 50 times a day and clean and paint the grimy walls of all the floor lobbies and stairwells as well.

That bucket shop had branches all over the city, in hotel lobbies, and in near-by towns.

Several of the destroyed works had been displayed in the Twin Towers public lobbies and plazas.

Is G. E. one of the companies that lobbies for the active financing exception?

There are too many complicating issues: industry lobbies, shareholder expectations, and global wage and resource competition, to name a few.

Industrial and agricultural lobbies have opposed entry, claiming that Russian companies require more time before facing global competition.

Children's lobbies always want more funds, but this report suggests that more money does not reliably yield better results.

Whirring air conditioners , fuzzy- sounding speakers and nearby noisy lobbies were obscuring his carefully crafted sound effects .

As conference delegates meet elsewhere, author Bill McKibben makes the rounds in the hotel lobbies, talking about the need for action now.

Village every building entrance, elevator lobbies main public areas are closed-circuit television, camera systems and warning systems.

The slowness of the count contrasts with the frenetic pace of negotiations in Baghdad's hotel lobbies and party headquarters.

The Doha round had to contend with powerful farm lobbies in India, Europe and the United States.

But some observers and participants stressed that stark divisions remained among different participants and lobbies in the talks.

Over the objections of some tough lobbies, George Bush has proposed fixing some of the distorting aspects of America's food policies.

and above all avoid doing anything that wittingly or unwittingly strengthens business, labour or agricultural lobbies.

Where are the petitions, the public protests, the lobbies of parliament?

Red polyester lanterns dangle across Shanghai's store-fronts while office lobbies are a riot of scarlet and gold.

If governments are not careful, this will end up with manufacturing export lobbies once again seizing control of government policy.

Attendees on their way to sessions crowded the lobbies of the Moscone Center during the meeting.

To do this, she has used the sunken lobbies, with their large expanse of glass, to create a surreal image of the cityscape as it passes by.

Worthwhile inventions cannot find support against existing lobbies and new techniques are overlooked.

The second is Attahiru Jega, head of the official election commission, who designed a voting system that angered many powerful lobbies.

The American government consists of self-interested lobbies and Wall Street looters.

And many were surprised at his decision to snub the seed companies and powerful domestic and American biotech lobbies.

Despite campaigns by local lobbies and charities, the penal code in Lebanon still imposes lighter sentences for crimes of honour.

The ground lobby is the primary hub of the tower, defining 4 different dedicated lobbies for residential, hotel, offices and general public.

The second is that there exists a conspiracy of powerful lobbies, government entities and opportunistic scientists who must be overcome.

It has been achieved with galleries and wide lobbies with small lounges and large outdoor terraces.

Though this notion is wildly popular with the political left, conservatives and business lobbies loathe it.

Some industrial lobbies may decide that the bill will provide the certainty they need to decide about future investment, and get behind it.

Hotels which nervously hung a modest rebel flag in their lobbies four days after Tripoli had fallen are now draped in them.

But the UN is resisting pressure from some Western governments and lobbies to increase its efforts to undermine Hamas's creed.

Mr. Tsang says Chinese buyers look for luxury finishes, ornate decorations and grand hotel-style lobbies.

The lobbies of Wall Street will, it is true, resist onerous regulation of capital requirements or liquidity, after this crisis is over.

Para. Ten of the 13 wallets dropped in banks and post offices were returned. All four of the wallets in hotel lobbies were also returned.

It provides moral and legal support to surviving families and lobbies against corruption in the armed forces.

I enter and leave public parks, libraries, the lobbies of skyscrapers, and movie houses. I stay in no place for very long.

It should not base its interests on traditional lobbies and pressures.

Legislators are easily seduced by booms and lobbies. Voters are ignorant of and bored by regulation.

THE LOBBIES OF Congress are crowded with representatives of the X industry.

Best of all, set a carbon tax, which is less susceptible to capture by business lobbies than is a cap-and-trade system.

And lobbies that greet you with spectacular architecture and dramatic vistas.

Too many lobbies have an interest in keeping the system as it is.

Timers were installed to switch off the lighting of lobbies after office hours in order to lower the electricity consumption.

escalator railings , lift lobbies and elevator buttons.

Dick Gephardt, the former Democratic House leader, lobbies for Goldman.

It avoids taking on powerful lobbies who benefit from wasteful public spending.

Sumptuous hotel lobbies, highlight-star hotel luxury style.

In the US, it is not just industry lobbies who complain about a cheap renminbi.

Powerful farming lobbies have little interest in changing the status quo.

There are also powerful lobbies, from the National Rifle Association to the Safari Club International.

Curved canopies float above elevator lobbies, reception, and the stair.

Patrols lobbies, corridors, guest floors and public areas.

Local food lets farming lobbies campaign against imports under the guise of environmentalism.

Fixed an error that caused some players to crash or disconnect while in online lobbies .

Too often the aid lobbies have cheered them on, loth to acknowledge the flaws in people they need to prove that aid works.

2The provision of entrance lobbies, bracketed by sets of self-closing or automatic doors, helps reduce air influx.

Yet bilateral trade has doubled in the past decade, and business lobbies are urging their governments to resume talks.

So it might prefer the trilateral deal to one that antagonises farmers and other important lobbies at home.

Deficit reduction is popular in principle but will enrage lobbies.

Even in hotel lobbies, thieves can be lurking.

These are also the least upsetting to the interests of powerful lobbies, particularly in finance.

Furthermore, Mac and Windows players will be part of the same multiplayer universe, sharing servers, lobbies, and so forth.

The girls work the streets and hotel lobbies until they get deported or homesick.

a PM lobbies group of engineers, tries to get them excited about their ideas.

In America, the drugs and devices lobbies are violently opposed to a NICE-style agency that could issue mandatory rulings.

Legislators are easily seduced by booms and lobbies.

Art replaced fresh flowers in elevator lobbies.

Terrible garbage smells in the lobbies. Especially in the 1st floor elevator lobby in the morning. . .

There are pretty strong, mostly Europe-based, lobbies who oppose their use in Sub-Saharan Africa.

They are better paid, better qualified and more influential than the regulators. Legislators are easily seduced by booms and lobbies.

The private group lobbies for refugee rights.

Bill Clinton lobbies for earthquake aid to Haiti.

It also monitors Georgian legislation and lobbies international bodies such as the EU, Council of Europe and the UN.

The meat and poultry lobbies are horrified.

Have you looked around the lobbies both in the VIP building and the Guest Building?

For example, can subsidies and incentives really work when the technological uncertainties are so large and political lobbies so powerful?

Bank branches in Hong Kong gave access to specialist advisers and were often designed like stylish hotel lobbies with interactive TV walls.

I have many lobbies, such as reading , dongying sports , traveling, and so on.

Reformers are stymied by medical lobbies, nervous patients and heaps of regulations about who may do what and where

Foreign lobbies, propaganda, and the press as influences on American foreign policy: Cull, Nicholas John

BUSLOADS of Japanese tourists collapse exhausted in their hotel lobbies;

Design of smokeproof stairways and fire lift lobbies of tall public buildings

Artificial light environment design of hotel lobbies

Has ignored the pleas of the two powerful lobbies

GM Apartment Corridors & Lift Lobbies

Management Of Hotel Lobbies & Guest Rooms

Public Elevator Lobbies and Lift Cars