lobby

Think of the White House press corps, the British "lobby" press that covers parliament or sports journalists assigned to a team.

It had coats of arms in the lobby and a giant statue of a king in flowing robes.

It had a huge high-ceiling lobby, comfortable rooms, and a nice restaurant and bar.

As I stepped into the bathroom you could hear machine gun fire start up in the lobby and everybody in there just froze.

Also, as you can see the scene is quite simple. . . just a small lobby (mostly modeled with boxes).

Expectant mothers, ' he said. Moments later, a well-to-do young woman pushing a kid in a stroller stepped into the lobby.

With a lobby designed so guests can socialize with new friends or old, at Sheraton, you know you belong.

The Hotel Il San Pietro is built into the side of a seaside cliff, and the lobby lift takes guests directly to a private beach.

Someone may even get around to posting his picture in the CFTC's lobby, still adorned with that of his Republican predecessor.

Lord Patten, now chancellor of Oxford University, said he would not lobby for the post but would be "very positive" if asked.

Washington is still trying to steer a careful line between populist politicians who can sense public anger and the powerful financial lobby.

"I liked it a lot, but not at $145, " she said inside the lobby at the NFL's headquarters hotel.

Figures from the RAC Foundation, a motoring lobby, suggest that only a fifth of the population use trains more than once or twice a week.

How much time should it wait for someone to join a lobby or a game before it says "No, they're not going to get in? " and blocks them?

That, at least, is the conclusion of a report published by Wetlands International, a lobby group, this week.

to get a new guest from the lobby to his cleaned room involves the front office , the uniformed services , and the housekeeping department.

Mahone pays to see the room. When he heads back to the lobby, Mahone catches the clerk on the phone about to tell Wyatt.

The Financial Services Forum, a financial sector lobby group, said the decision not to cite China in the report was "the prudent call. "

In a recent column on the senior-citizen lobby, I noted that Social Security is often "middle-class welfare" that bleeds the country.

Starting and looking up, she saw, across the lobby she had just reached, Edmund himself, standing at the head of a different staircase.

The penguin was waiting AT the front desk. In the lobby, tired business travelers looked on AT the reunion -- I think with a touch of envy.

"All right. Keep it sad around here for Tommy's sake, " he said, and went back to the lobby, where he pulled the doorknob from the wall.

The hotel has a tour desk within the lobby that we found to be a lot cheaper than any of the external agencies.

Such a business-labour-agricultural council would develop into a super lobby with coercive powers.

Accordingly, when he came out he was glad to see the lobby clear, and hastened toward the stairs.

She walked out of the hospital lobby and was killed by an ambulance speeding up to the hospital.

Michael Mann was there and just milling around in the lobby afterwards so my DH told him how much we enjoyed the film.

Partly that reflects the general difficulty of building in London, thanks to restrictive planning rules and the powerful heritage lobby.

All that separates the Art Deco lobby from the office space is a plate of opaque yellow glass, part of the famed domed ceiling.

I remember a sort of a tussle at the door trying to get the door open. In any case, 12 hours later, I mean, they put us in the lobby.

Morty: So, you stand in the lobby, by the elevator, and wait for her to come down for lunch.

The lobby features a large staircase made of teak that leads to an upper level, where the front desk is located.

The difficulties of the next year or two will, no doubt, reawaken the pro-euro lobby.

"One of the ways the PBOC has gained leverage over the export lobby is to be able to point at currency legislation, " Mr Scissors says.

Lobby politics is now at least as important in shaping policy in Beijing as in Washington, which is why it is often hard to read.

I shall presently find means to smuggle you out of here into the sail locker, which communicates with the lobby.

One morning I arrived early at work and went into the bank lobby where the Negro Porter was mopping.

However, the dark emptiness of the rooms beyond the lobby illustrate the challenges Nomura still faces in its efforts to integrate Lehman.

You know there's a problem when people list "hanging out in the lobby" as a can't miss activity at a tech event.

Consumer advocates charge that the GOP is trying to weaken the agency's powers at the behest of the financial-services lobby.

Visit our all-day dining or Chinese restaurants for a great meal or come by our Lobby Lounge to simply relax.

In trying to resuscitate Doha, Mr Bush will be able to draw on support from business lobby groups.

Down in the lobby, a woman pointed at the entourage and said, "Who's that? "

The room was extremely calm and tranquil and then just a quick elevator trip to the lobby and out the door and WAM! ! !

Despite warnings by the business lobby, the Japanese public seems to be taking the rise in Chinese acquisitions in its stride.

Akira Matsubara of an NPO lobby group calls it a dramatic change.

The Commission should have stood up to this lobby: it did not.

The European Union delegation in Kabul came into this and hired me to work inside the Ministry of Public Health, to lobby this approach.

The room was comfortable and the staff was friendly but the morning we were to leave, we decided to go to the lobby and check our emails.

A lobby group, Family First, is agitating to reverse that change, saying at least half the population supports the right to smack.

People gathered at the lobby to witness the general manager close the door and lock it with the key.

Business lobby groups, including the Confederation of Indian Industry, said the economy could now exceed this target for the full year.

A chunk of allowances can be handed out to one lobby, a sliver to another, and soon the system's effectiveness has been sliced away.

Splendid hotel lobby, modern design, luxurious interior as if to a palace-like temple.

One stormy night many years ago, an elderly man and his wife entered the lobby of a small hotel in Philadelphia.

The space would not help much if it were just an expanded lift lobby with balconies built around.

Tobacco lobby groups said the move was part of an "ongoing campaign to stigmatize smokers. "

If you put your ideas up for discussion, there are large numbers of lobby groups to tell you where you may be wrong.

Reception Service: For check-in, please contact with the Reception at the Front Desk in the hotel lobby.

Hotel owned All-Day Dining restaurant "CHI" and featured Lobby Lounge "CHA" with its capacity of 200 seats.

DO NOT dilly dally in the lobby or the night manager will eyeball you until you go back to bed.

Knowing no one to ask to accompany him, he went alone and in the lobby saw a French governess who was being turned away from the box office.

Bellman positioned at the Front Door will bring the luggage trolley into the lobby and place it together in Luggage Storage area.

Could you take a seat in the lobby bar for a while and I will info rm you when a table is free ?

he said, addressing a lounger in one of the comfortable lobby chairs.

He lurks around for a bit, checking out the porn in the lobby before nodding a farewell and heading off to the booths to continue lurking.

The rate increase will be a disappointment to Indian business lobby groups that had been pushing the central bank to hold fire.

Now a banner strung across the hospital's main lobby exhorts: "Everyone participate in the sorting out of the law and order problem! "

When a guest at the front desk after the registration, my mission began, from the lobby to the guest room has been accompanied by me.

The lobby is magnificent and luxurious where the custom of Jiangnan's fishermen can be found, accommodating up to over 1000 persons.

As tension between Chiang and Stilwell increased, Soong continued to lobby for American support of Chiang's strategic thinking.

I'm not quite sure. You'd better inquire at the information counter in the Arrival Lobby. They'll be able to help you.

On the staircase near the ground level lobby is a mobile fence with the name of the sole agent Shan On Engineering printed on it.

Guess what time he tell everyone to meet at the hotel lobby on the next day?

Entering the building beneath the canopy, visitors pass through a section of the fa? ade that opens out go form a draught lobby.

Suddenly a next person runs to lobby to a burst of murmur by the side of the ear of two Yes in the Ji house.

And so far the advertisement has not generated negative attention from the anti-gun lobby, she said.

She took the key he slid to her and hurried across the wide lobby to the elevators, restraining the urge to run.

"Foreign policy has no lobby of its own, " says Mr Perthes.

Hiromasa Yonekura, head of Japan's powerful Keidanren business lobby, said the disaster would have "an enormous impact" on the economy.

At the heart of the hotel is the Lobby Lounge, which comprises two separate components.

Gradually in the 18th century an anti-slavery lobby built up in Europe, notably in Britain, the superpower of the seas.

Other problems: the mouse on the internet terminal in the lobby had been broken for so long it burned a straight line into the screen.

Sometimes my Teacher would arrange for me to have lessons on the grand piano positioned in the middle of the lobby area.

the leading bank lobby. The unforeseen consequence could be delay of a rule that might prevent the next crisis.

Peter said: "The story is not long, but extremely sad, I left the key in the lobby. "

But here is the press walking into the lobby of my house trying to take pictures.

A year ago, he joined with other residents to establish a grass-roots lobby organization, Fair Insurance Rates in Monroe or FIRM.

A man is in a hotel lobby. He wants to ask the clerk a question.

But what if you could take a detour through a lobby that exhibits art, or down a lane that borders a green space?

Over the past year, Mr. Prasad said, the commodity lobby had the upper hand.

By September, all investment bankers have started to lobby as if their lives depended on it.

Am i allowed to waiting for him in the lobby?

US business lobby groups are hoping Mr Obama will be able to achieve some kind of a breakthrough in Seoul next week.

So, I just pictured a first grade teacher out in the lobby with these unruly kids, saying, "Now, whatever you do, don't stare at her legs. "

They tried to convince pubs that the smoke-free law would drive them out of business so they would lobby against the law.

Creditors have periodically imposed monetary anchors in an attempt to defeat the borrowers' lobby.

Friends of the Earth, an environmental lobby group, thinks offshore lagoons might be a useful compromise.

But when we walked into the hotel lobby the next morning, our son toddling ahead, the old men was sitting in an overstuffed lounge chair.

Lucio Castro of CIPPEC, a think-tank, says this sort of co-ordinated farming lobby is "a complete novelty in Argentina" .

When she stepped off the elevator into the cool, marbled lobby, it was empty; the security guard just happened to be on a break.

This time I wanted to decline the leadership do not work overtime, but all have the same branch lobby manager, I can do an exception?

She had fully expected, when she saw Jacob walk into the office lobby, to be jailed for what she had to do.

Diallo says she hid around the corner in the hallway nearthe service lobby and tried to compose herself.

Breakfast is served in a delightful courtyard, which may be accessed through the hotel lobby or via a separate door from the canal side.

I rented out the little sandwich kiosk down in the lobby.

But the climate change lobby is in the grip of its own form of dangerous fantasy.

I arrive in the building just before 2pm, to find, happily, that the elevator in the front lobby is actually working today.

Ma and Mr. Lu, who was a lobby manager at a hotel before he started his career in technology by co-founding a network-communication company.

Kathy took the escalator down to the lobby where she found a taxi waiting.

On entering the lobby, I was immediately struck by the hotel's foremost defining characteristics: glass, light and, of course, the view.

Applications: widely used to city square, garden villa, the hotel lobby, park and commercial pedestrian street etc all kinds ground.

Next we entered the lobby of a large hotel, where we asked for a coffee shop and a bathroom.

We glitzed up the lobby with a couple of fountains and a bird cage.

For a hotel that shows a 4 Star Placard in the lobby, the Grand Season hotel is most definitely NOT up to the standard.

I shall BE in the lobby when this note is delivered to you. '

For some that sort of attack is evidence that Mr King is taking on the banking lobby.

I looked out from the small booth, feeling ridiculous with a plastic mask strapped to my face, while lobby guests watched surreptitiously.

The lifts and lobby areas were not safe, either, so the two men trudged up and down the apartment block's echoing stairwells.

Two receptionists sit in the dark, unheated lobby, with matching blankets on their knees.

Do not remove the word "lobby" from the command line.

The lobby features sculptures inspired by his poems; crampons and oxygen tanks are lined up outside the meeting room.

Even if the lobby and restaurants were grand and spacious, the rooms were all too often pokey and old-fashioned.

You come up to the international departure lobby, use the escalator on the right side, and you will see the grill room on your right.

Soup and snacks were available in the lobby on return from the evenings celebrations, which we thought was an very nice touch.

In one corner of the lobby area, 200 mostly elderly people wait in line to see a doctor for prescription medicine.

One of the building's most notable features is the Sky Lobby on the 11th floor.

The event is part of the city's campaign to lobby for the inclusion of West Lake as one of UNESCO 's World Heritage sites.

Back at the hotel lobby, with my Chinese guest still in the company of others.

He decided to go over to the lobby of one and sit a while.

On one of the evenings we were there, I was struggling to carry my stroller up the staircase from the outdoor maze to the lobby.

The Court of Appeals decision is just the latest in an almost unbroken series of advances for the gun-rights lobby.

Three-dimensional open lobby bar allow you to meet guests, while discussions to enjoy the beautiful scenery of sea and sky merged.

located at the front desk in the lobby , offers inquiry , message and mail service.

She met him in New York City at a bar in fancy hotel lobby.

On a peaceful afternoon, one can also choose to relax and enjoy a traditional British afternoon tea at The Point bar in the lobby.

When I walk through the lobby of the Psychology building at Texas, I often see a few students on benches reading over their notes.

The children were dressing in the lobby , superintended by Mrs. Moffatt.

After A Long Day Of Sightseeing, Retreat To The Comfort Of Your Room Or Unwind With A Drink By The Fireplace In The Lobby.

Angel Feng, a 26 year-old graduate of a business school in France, in the lobby of the office building in Beijing where she works.

Some of the audience went into the lobby for a smoke.

Things turned so bad that Eni's partners quietly began to lobby against the Italian company.

Due to limited space, each baby can only be accompanied by a parent, other parents can wait in the lobby.

It has also suggested bolder cuts to emissions, raising hackles from a powerful business lobby that has too long had things its own way.

I've started having day dreams about tracking him down and meeting for a coffee in a hotel lobby.

We'll lobby, we will develop, manage on the site, spec apartments, book furniture and choose, you know.

The culture wars started by the Lords Elgin are still raging . Greece continues to lobby for the marbles to be restored to Athens .

Just click on the help button in the casino lobby for a complete set of instructions and explanations on all Casino games .

As he walked into the lobby, his insides tightened again with the thought of Gus and Blum's.

He crossed the lobby and went down the stairs to Churchill's underground headquarters .

The modern lobby is designed along simple, essential lines with a typically Brazilian touch to it.

"It looks like we now are on the verge of a paradigm change, " says Peter Harling of the International Crisis Group, a Brussels-based lobby.

The group is trying to lobby against higher taxes.

In the lobby of the hotel they provide free internet access on three computers which was great to be able to keep in touch with family.

'That's why they picked us, ' reasoned a waiter in the hotel lobby coffee shop. 'We are out in the middle of nowhere. '

The pro-Olympics lobby tends to downplay the disadvantages.

The American Petroleum Institute, Big Oil's powerful lobby, is looking for a "sensible" energy policy from Republicans.

In a room off the lobby of the W hotel, she removes her glasses and hair clip and tosses both on a table.

When you join an Arranged Team lobby, you should now be able to see the other players in the lobby.

Stepping into the hotel lobby, it's like travelling to an ancient palace and submerging in the honorable flavour of the emperor.

Natural light floods the museum through its jigsaw-shaped holes and skylights. A walkway and a cube-shaped gallery float above the lobby.

In the lobby of the Imperial, Mr. Charles Drouet was just arriving, shaking the snow from a very handsome ulster.

It is not enough to lobby the UN or the 'international community' or the consciences of the fashionable thinkers of the global elite.

Halfan hour ago, I walked into a plush reception lobby on Harley Street - athoroughfare famed for its exclusive private medical practices.

Certainly, sir. The elevators are right across the lobby. Floors two to fifteen are the elevators to the right.

The bustle in the vestibule, as she passed along an inner lobby , assured her that they were already in the house.

I had three dinners and three lunches in the restaurant and I signed for a cognac at the lobby bar.

I found the serving of arabic coffee in the lobby to be a nice touch, and everyone was helpful with our little boy.

Linger for a relaxing drink in our lobby lounge or nourish yourself in one of our refined restaurants.

Would you step this way please? Switch off the light pass me the sports section, ask him to clean the lobby, move your chair over there.

To tempt your palate, guests can savor local specialties and international cuisine at any one of our 3 unique restaurants and lobby lounge.

But when the elevator doors opened into the lobby, the man I saw just looked like a guy from L. A. in a black shirt and jeans.

To ensure the hotel main entrance and lobby area and concierge counter, storeroom, trolley is clean at all times.

A man in shorts and Crocs kept an eye on his daughter, whose sneakers squeaked furiously on the lobby's marble floor.

Lobby Bar Enjoy a wide variety of delicacies by the soulful music, you will feel so easy and carefree with your friends.

So, this is DARwIn IV, again, you'll be able to see it in the lobby.

The company started to criticise the deal in public and lobby China Eastern's shareholders to vote against it.

That would matter less if people applied the same degree of scepticism to environmental lobbying as they do to lobby groups in other fields.

The CDS lobby makes much of those technical characteristics in its defence of the status quo.

In the hotel lobby I was amazed to meet Nicholas Tomalin, idol of my generation of journalists and a close friend.

He had enlisted a trio of his friends from Brooklyn to ambush Shakur in the lobby of the Quad, the sources said.

The lobby was full, mostly with people dropping off various animals that they no longer wanted.

A grand stairway connects the four main floors of the building, with the function level and wedding chapel located beneath the lobby.

The driving lobby suspects that the government would use road pricing to screw more money out of it.

If you want a flashy hotel with a grand lobby with fancy restaurants, this is not the place.

Dozens of new students crowded into a lobby of the University of Delaware's student center at the start of the academic year.

The Hotel is being evacuated, please leave your room immediately by the emergency exit to the Staircase and proceed to the Lobby Floor.

Then she was going to press every single button inside the elevator in order for it to take longer to reach the lobby.

Main lobby and halls do not require drop ceilings. Exposed pipes and mechanical must the concealed.

I left the cordoned -off area and caught the ceremony in the lobby of a big, cushy hotel not far from the stadium.

UBS would be unwise to take the lobby, which also has close contacts with foreign institutional investors, for granted.

But Vietnam's environmental lobby sees the industry as one of the few avenues of dissent against policy makers.

He often stared at guests and other hotel staff in suits in the lobby through glass windows.

A report by Human Rights Watch, a New York-based lobby, documents summary executions in Deraa, a southern city where the protests began.

Companies are now gearing up to lobby the Securities and Exchange Commission, which has to write detailed provisions for the new rule.

When I rode it to the lobby on my way to lunch, the door refused to open.

The entry of Egypt at all, they take the car to a local hotel lobby for identification and meet with loved ones.

The meet and greet will take place in the lobby about 10 minutes following the performance.

Then Angelique says to look around the hotel lobby.

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The most obvious answer lies in the power of two very visible political forces: the Israeli lobby (AIPAC) and the religious right.

The only negative is that during our stay half the lobby was blocked off as it was undergoing some renovations.

The owners are even in talks with Disney to bring a fully underwater production of The Little Mermaid to the hotel's lobby.

A portico or lobby of an early Christian or Byzantine church or basilica, originally separated from the nave by a railing or screen.

Spend a day visiting the lobby of all the different resorts for a fun afternoon relaxing and hunting Hidden Mickeys.

If you belong to an environmental or community organization, lobby to have the plastic bag issue added to the agenda.

With passenger of the lobby reform, we draw back the curtains through out the windows and let the sunshine in.

All prettied up for Tony? Absolutely. Peekaboo, I found you. Come on, big boy. right here in the lobby ! Oh, baby!

Our destination was the five-star Corinthia Hotel, its lobby a neoclassical cavern lined with velvet couches.

Positioned within a laneway and adjacent to the building lobby, the entrance is pedestrian and intimate.

Geoff Taylor, chief executive of a British music industry lobby group, BPI, urged officials to move quickly.

We decided to stay atthe less-expensive motel and take Baby into our room even though the sign in the lobby said 'No Dogs Allowed. '

So by now I was walking the lobby , and of course , that hurt, because of my hip , and I kind of needed a sign .

I waited for her in the lobby of theatre yesterday.

Olympic sponsors have been put under great pressure from some lobby groups to speak out about human rights in Tibet or Darfur in Sudan.

An ingredient used in Coca-Cola and Pepsi is a cancer risk and should be banned, an influential lobby group has claimed.

But Chinese exporters are a strong lobby. They will not give ground easily.

Sara finds Officer Bellick in the infirmary lobby and urges him to start an Internal Affairs investigation.

We took the lift to the lobby and heard bangs as the door opened.

The National Constitutional Assembly, a lobby that for a decade has called for a new constitution, accuses its former ally of treachery.

We emerged into an enormous room, filled with smoke, and soon realized it was the second floor, the one that overlooks the lobby.

The other restaurants at the hotel are wonderful. A bar with a short menu is available in the lobby area.

A coalition of some of the largest agribusinesses in the world has formed a new group to lobby the U. S. government on biofuels.

But the National Rifle Association (NRA), the main gun lobby, vastly prefers him to Mr Obama.

There is a receptionist in the lobby you have to register with and then he calls ahead to see if the party you want to see is available.

Rebels had laid out a new welcome mat, the Colonel Gadhafi portrait that once graced the lobby wall.

And why not put some more, selected books down in the lobby?

So far, such lobby groups are relatively weak in South-East Asia, whereas Big Tobacco still has lots of friends.

They also summon taxis or other types of transportation, and in many hotels they carry baggage from the street into the lobby.

yes . would you get me mr . mccoy on the phone ? he is supposed to be around the lobby.

After a few minutes' driving, Lu Chen and Mr. Roberts are at the entrance of Robinson Garden with the security in the lobby.

In the complex of the buildings the block of rooms and most of the lobby block have been retained which is an advantage for this proposal.

Within creditor countries, the producers of tradeable goods and services are a powerful lobby for the supply of credit to debtors.

We were stuck on the stairs for a while, and we finally got down to the lobby.

French cheese, says the Association Fromage de Terroirs, a lobby group, is not just food, but a "theme of national importance" .

Department Head of the team member, Lobby Assistant Manager and Security Department has to be informed immediately.

The Confederation of Indian Industry, a business lobby group, said more should have been done to increase private-sector investment.

He knew hotels well enough to know that any decent looking individual was welcome to a chair in the lobby.

Besides, Hotel also has restaurants, lobby halls, convention centre, entertainment centre and everything of entertainment facilities.

The former president helped lobby for South Africa to host the World Cup , but this was his first appearance at the tournament .

Attendees registering for the meeting crowded the lobby of the Moscone Center.

The vestibule is constructed with vertical pleated steel wall that serves as a transition space between elevator lobby and dining area.

White-hot sparks zipped and crackled through the smoke that billowed across the turbo lift lobby.

Although some companies are happy to let Spain lobby on their behalf, others are reluctant to fly the flag.

Rick Evans, its boss, says his investors left America to escape over-regulation and the political power of the medical lobby.

When employees swipe their ID cards to call the elevator in the lobby, they can be rerouted to the boss's floor.

Enjoy the ambience of our Lobby Lounge bar while you linger over a cocktail or refreshing beverage.

During the transition, the bookstore staff will be available throughout the week in the current bookstore lobby to assist customers.

And if those sad souls down in the lobby ask for me.

raucous american voices boom across the lobby , and staff swipe - card their way through frosted glass doors.