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After almost a year together, all the boys lobbied hard for us to get a dog
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The US military carried out most of these attacks, and often lobbied for their use and against their use coming to an end
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In some cases, notably biological weapons researchers, they lobbied against the weapons they themselves developed
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Ros-Lehintin lobbied for the release and pardon of several of the worst terrorists
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Facing the Apache were Generals Howard and Miles, both of whom had genuine sympathy for Natives and lobbied for better treatment of their former enemies once they were confined
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Some of her advisers were also GW Bush's, and indeed one Clinton adviser lobbied hard for support for a coup in Honduras
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They lobbied the State legislature to order the technicians to work for what they wanted to pay
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Oldaker, who heads the PACs of Reid and Dorgan, has lobbied
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Hold on, wasn’t Jan the one who lobbied for this hound?
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The significant politicians were duly lobbied on behalf of the interested corporations and won over by the moral argument, and the occasional directorship, and it was not until the full implications of making the therapies universally available were digested and understood by the elite, that a complete u-turn was instigated
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For more that two hundred years the less affluent Romans, called the plebeians, lobbied and negotiated for political equality
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have lobbied strongly for massive chemical tests on animals, while opposing non-animal testing alternatives
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He had also lobbied for Modi with the British government after the 2002 riots
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Throughout this book I have advocated and lobbied for readers to travel and
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The UUIAO, or Universally and Unanimously Insulted Aquatic Organization, has many times unsuccessfully lobbied for the proper recognition of water dwellers
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Prior to the bill becoming law I lobbied state senators, as well as our
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news was something I had earnestly lobbied over the last five years,
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Columbus lobbied for years all around Europe, for the opportunity to blaze a new trading route to the East
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Ryodan lobbied successfully to restore the euro as the only acceptable currency, which baffled me at first
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Appalled by a culture that spent “too much time sitting on soft seats in motors, too much sitting in soft seats in movies,” Clarke lobbied the federal government to set aside a wilderness corridor for the trail
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“I should have lobbied the DA and insisted that we charge Laws with a felony
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Earl William had lobbied hard for Jerome, his father’s able administrator, but in the end Edward had chosen Henri of Mons, a relative of his wife’ s from Hainault in northern France
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When I lobbied for committee positions—which I did pretty hard, largely through my growing friendship with Dick Gephardt, who had just gone from House Majority Leader to House Minority Leader—I pushed not for traditional liberal Kennedy placements but a seat on the House Armed Services Committee
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Hedge funds lobbied for a repeal, and the feds conceded after a test proved life without the uptick would be just fine
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He was part of the Police Outreach Unit in the Potrero Hill projects and a member of a minority action group called the Officers for Justice, which lobbied for and promoted the interests of black officers
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We usually tear up places like this, which is why I had lobbied for the McBurger on a little side street
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lobbies which were the same size of each of the
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His quest leads him to the mysterious Hotel Dusk, and there players will have to explore the various rooms, lobbies and passageways to seek out clues about what happened to Brian
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And legislature should be free of lobbies and be listening to the people they serve and their own consciences
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But ZTA was still to do a lot because gradually Jewish lobbies and different Christian organizations under influence of Jews had jumped into the arena to support fully the pro Jewish Zulimistan government
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lobbies to influence the votes in Congress often over-
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With right-wing USA think tank and USA lobbies, financed by billionaires, media and universities have created the beliefs that government are the source of all ills and that free markets are 40
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shops and big department stores had shut their doors but the luxury hotels were hives of activity, their lobbies packed with their worried, chattering guests
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Everyone has a shared receptionist, answering service, security and common areas such as lobbies, restrooms and conference rooms
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The usual places you find pickpockets are in crowded areas such as airports, train and bus stations, hotel lobbies, restaurants, and sporting events
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alone, frequently from inattentive travelers in airports, restaurants, and hotel lobbies
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The curtain fell almost immediately after the entrance of Madame Danglars into her box, the band quitted the orchestra for the accustomed half-hour's interval allowed between the acts, and the audience were left at liberty to promenade the salon or lobbies, or to pay and receive visits in their respective boxes
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After which the curtain again fell, and the spectators poured forth from the theatre into the lobbies and salon
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• Incorporates three “sky lobbies” on levels 43, 76 and 123: intermediate floors at which passengers can leave an express elevator and join a local elevator that will stop on every floor in one section of the building
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They clustered in doorways, peered from theater lobbies, jostled in alleys, "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" on their lips, "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear" in their eyes, tambourines in hand, snowflakes shaping a collar of grace about then" tender necks
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The aim here is not to censor but create a lobby of senior respected citizens who can prevail upon those in control to act when the boundary of decency is crossed
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I’ll wait for you in the lobby
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We stand there in the back lobby for ages, but eventually, when my sobs have reduced to sniffles, she leads me into the kitchen and sits me down, going over and putting the kettle on to boil
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The back lobby is through here – there’s a second loo and a shower
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Yellelle lead her into a lobby, where she conversed with some sort of major domo
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“Mister Matkins, there are two police officers in the lobby to see you
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Three of his clients had a fist fight in the lobby and the State Police had to break it up
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Three clients had a fist fight in the lobby and the State Police had to break it up
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The lobby was the whole bottom floor, an open room with elevators and signs, sitting areas, information stands, art displays and the course listings
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This was like student records, there was a large lobby with a dozen eyes set up
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The young pretender then quickly excused herself from the young gentleman and when she was at once in the street, she was immediately joined by the taller lady who took the girl's elbow in her hand and directed her to the hotel and on into the lobby
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Allcock carried a letter-sized black leather pouch which he passed to Harry as they descended the stairs to the lobby
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They crossed the conservatory of a lobby and were soon out and rounding a corner, striding up Clarke Street toward the River Bridge
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Harry was ready in the lobby at 8:40 as had been arranged
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I show him the door into the little back lobby where, in addition to having space for the usual clutter of boots and stuff, I have put in a second loo and shower, then upstairs, where I have three bedrooms and a bathroom
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Since then he had the Music Manufacturing lobby staked out, but so far he had not regained his quarry
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“A man in a hotel lobby wants to ask the clerk a question
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Andrew Holmes was ready in the Lido Hotel lobby
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They don't like the pictures in the lobby because you can tell the people on the beaches are naked
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He'd paid for half her yandrille, he'd supported all her plans, including the audio equipment history exhibit she'd helped him build for the department lobby
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Beyond them there was a huge lobby with banks of elevators
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There were more elevators in this one lobby than he had seen in Zhlindu, but like the elevators in Zhlindu, these work by buoyancy and weren't very fast
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They followed the spiral staircase in the lobby, flanked by highly polished brass railings, to the top floor where the main bedroom was situated
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And it is this very same water ride that our intrepid group has in mind as they step off the elevators and stroll through the hotel lobby
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” Sebastian and Venus crossed the lobby, heading toward Psyche’s office
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In the corner of the front lobby, Aspen exhaled as she came from behind a potted fig tree in the corner
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Sebastian waited in the SUV as Russell went into the main lobby of the hotel to take care of any paperwork needed for their stay
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At that moment, Rogan entered the lobby hastily and approached Mars
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Mars turned and strode from the lobby
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There’s been a lot of pressure to change things and the lobby groups have not only got a lot more powerful, but now they’ve got representatives in the central chamber
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He opened the front door and hurried into the small lobby
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Only in the main lobby (a place she’d only been through upon her arrival) were there the few security staff, who stared at her impassively
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enter the hotel lobby safely
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She still had to make it across the lobby and past the reception desk
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Grant in the airport lobby
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Grant met them in the lobby of the airport
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And as a doctor he was aware of the statistics regarding suicide attempts, and was a member of the National Lobby, which was preparing a deputation to the High Court to have suicide decriminalized
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crawl inside the lobby
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to advertise the games in the lobby of the bank
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lobby dressed in a sleeveless tank top and white pants rolled up to the knee
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For two days I had been sitting around, either in the hotel lobby or in my hotel room, waiting for the interview to happen
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Beth filled her days joining tours that assembled each morning in the lobby
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It’s just off the lobby and wraps around three sides of the inn
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” Beth was crossing the lobby with her bag when the double-doors to the kitchen swung open and Sylvia emerged, instantly transformed into a smiling, gracious hostess
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She descended through deserted corridors to the lobby in search of a telephone to call a taxi so she could leave immediately but, to her surprise, asleep on a sofa in front of the fireplace, she found Herminia with a pillow cradled to her breast
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It was hotel security calling from the lobby, asking her approval for Herminia to come up
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Now was as good a time as ever to put an end to their relationship, but the lobby wasn’t the place for that: her permission was given
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He was halfway across the lobby when Sylvia’s witchy cackle bounced off the walls
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Beth pushed Herminia back inside and raced through the coffee shop into the lobby, glancing this way and that, uncertain of what to do
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As she snaked her way among a group in the lobby, through the window a stunning sight appeared: there, on the opposite sidewalk, was the unmistakable figure of a mummy-like Herminia racing towards the corner
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The following morning, I was up early and downstairs before anyone because I wanted to leave, and I found her sleeping on a couch in the lobby
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“He ran through the lobby without speaking
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Why don’t you go and fix yourself a tuna sandwich?” His voice carried a provocative tone that caused her to spin and stare accusingly towards the lobby where her makeup case sat, balanced atop her other bags
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” In a flash, she was in the lobby, pulling the tuna from her bag
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As he and the Manager walked into the lobby, Steve was informed by him that the hotel had over eight entrances from the street and four sets of elevators
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� Steve was in a good mood as he strolled through the lobby wearing his grey silk suit and he looked around and couldn't find Linda anywhere
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There has been a powerful lobby calling for war with Iran since the 1990s
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They remained standing in the lobby, letting the doors close in front of them
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Leon Edward strutted like a peacock into the lobby of Hotel Paradise with two women at his side, certain that every head turned for a glimpse of such a great sight: Ed Lyons had arrived
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That's why, as I write this, I'm sitting in the lobby of an Econolodge in Sergeant Bluff, Iowa
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The range behind the main shop was actually a mid-size lobby with a few tables and chairs
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At the south side of the lobby, there was a heavy painted metal door with crash bar that led to the adjacent outdoor range
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The lobby of the Polonia was crowded
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After they finished eating, Colling suggested he exchange some of their dollars for Polish currency, and the registration clerk directed him to a cashier’s window on the opposite side of the lobby
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Once in the crowded hotel lobby, Colling spoke softly to Elizabeth as they waited for the elevator, “I think we’re being watched
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Dressed in the Mendozas’ clothes, they strolled leisurely through the Polonia’s lobby
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, they put on their borrowed Brazilian attire and strolled through the Polonia’s lobby and out the front doors
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Within the glass walled lobby, banks of windows extended the length of a wall
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Half served travelers entering the country, who formed a queue that crossed the lobby and continued along the opposite wall
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Returned to the lobby, the uniformed man spoke briefly with Hector, who turned and began to weave his way through the crowd
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” She went, but with a growing sense of doom, reluctantly trailing into the lobby
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He told the attendant behind the counter that he wished to place a transatlantic call, gave him the number, and was told to have a seat on one of the benches in the lobby
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Taking the risk that his things would not be searched if he did not leave the hotel itself, Colling went to the lobby to exchange dollars for zlotys and have dinner
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When Colling arrived in the hotel lobby to check out, Captain Ensilnos was waiting for him at the front desk
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In the dark, the shabby appearance of its exterior was not noticeable, but as they filed into the entrance hall that served as a lobby, they could see that the establishment had seen better days
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screaming out loud in the lobby
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You’d better leave now! I’ll be in the lobby
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leaving the restroom and stopping in the lobby area to watch the dice game
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He peeled off $400 and then looked around the lobby area
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The patrons in the lobby yelled and hollered very loudly
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everyone in the lobby
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Before Brush could finish his verse, the entire lobby erupted with loud outbursts
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The rest of the persons started to dissipate from the lobby area
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that were in the lobby
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entered the busy church lobby
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Besides, it lives at the expense of sinecures of the State; it fights for pharaonic contracts; it struggles for tax incentives or subsidies to be competitive; it makes political agreements to obtain public concessions; it uses lobby to generate casuistical laws that benefit its interests; it applies the terror of the unemployment to obtain the worker’s productivity and the support of the governmental authorities in the trade questions and work to satisfy its revindications
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They checked into the hotel at Grand Junction, Colorado, and then went down to the bar off the lobby
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The clock on the wall of the reception lobby of Mahoney Patrick was showing 12:00
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Doug was waiting in the lobby, and he took Jack and me into the viewing room while the children waited in the reception area
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She pushes a door open, and we stand in a large, open room that reminds me of the building’s lobby
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I cough, and throw it away from me, deeper into the lobby
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When the Erudite reached the lobby stairwell, one of them didn’t go up to the second floor
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Those loyal Dauntless gathered in the lobby and split into four groups that stormed the stairwells simultaneously, surrounding the Dauntless traitors, who had clustered around the elevator banks
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THAT AFTERNOON I join a group of Candor and Dauntless cleaning up the broken windows in the lobby
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He walks back to Shauna’s side, and I stand over one of the Candor scales in the lobby, at a loss
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Tori and Harrison come to the lobby after a while, Tori limping toward a chair—I almost forgot about her bullet wound again; she was so nimble when she killed Jeanine—and Harrison following her
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Johanna Reyes steps into the lobby, soaked to the bone from all the rain, her red clothes smeared with a darker red
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She turns and walks out of the lobby
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Then Evelyn emerges into the lobby, her posture regal, like a queen returning to her kingdom
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They’re not only lobbying from outside but directly voting on the inside
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In recent years, however, many of the ―faithful‖ have been lobbying for easier application and/or interpretation of historical customs and teachings considered dated by contemporary standards
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The chief saw that a small group of individuals lobbying for a grant to set up a drop-in center were ready to go now
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Gore in fact faced protests by AIDS activists over his lobbying for drug companies, pressuring South Africa's government to not allow cheaper generic anti-AIDS drugs
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It was an argument that did not stand up to the lobbying power of the US, which had as leverage the threat of withholding aid dollars
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Much lobbying expense is ‘defensive’ in nature, being undertaken to offset lobbying efforts of broadly defined competitors in the political arena
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And some lobbying is undertaken for projects that have, in fact, benefits greater than costs; such projects are reasonably likely to be undertaken in any event, rendering special interest expenditures unnecessary
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Furthermore, lobbying expenses to be the ‘chosen’ contractor for a demanded project should be at least somewhat reduced under the mechanism because of the political pressure to keep spending low
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There will be a sort of automatic demand-side election campaign financing reform, since lobbying groups will reduce their funding if there is less return to that
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lobbying to reinstate the Superfund tax which was placed into effect in 1980
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It wouldn’t be long before the education-minded began lobbying their representatives to release the obsolete campus for a proposed new college
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They are lobbying in California to stop a 150 mile link between San Diego and solar panels
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already been lobbying for it and secondly I feel it is a battle I can win
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Then he gave my job to my assistant who had contributed little more to the claims team effort than carrying the Trial Lawyers’ briefcases and sucking up to Assistant Secretary of the Navy Gordon McDonald, constantly lobbying for my job
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He also got very involved with the local rural electrification groups and spent time lobbying for them at the capitol in Denver
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went to work lobbying with Abramoff
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ing a lobbying boom in Washington
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a system, as far as lobbying is concerned, if we have a process that lends itself to one influential lobbyist with a relationship with one member,” Sen
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McCain ’says’ he believes that his lobbying efforts help the
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Either the foundations should be restricted to funding pure nuts and bolts research, or they should lose all tax-favored status, and be required to register as lobbying
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would be independent of lobbying activity
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Horse trading took place at the White House and intense lobbying involving
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The lobbying activity directed to Congress was intense to ensure that these
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In 2009 total lobbying costs were $3
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of research validity and funding, lobbying Congress to approve their
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greatest lobbying budgets have received the lion’s share of reimbursement
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other with black magic, each lobbying that their obeah man wielded more power and that he
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And by then, Gautam came to realize that the real bucks lay in lobbying for the defense deals
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True to their potential, the ex-bureaucrats began breaking the barriers to facilitate the way for the Global into the arena of lobbying
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While Manian sprang into the South Block for liaising with the concerned ministries, Khanna leveraged the embassy channels to profile the lobbying power of Global Facilitators
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He reckoned that if only they could pull it off for a nonentity against all odds, then that would take Global to the top of the lobbying world
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While Manian felt that betting on an also-ran was not the way to hit the jackpot, Gautam thought the real lobbying was all about making a winner out of the ordinary
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Yet, the realization in the right quarters that he had cut his teeth in the world of lobbying gave him immeasurable satisfaction
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time until his appointment lobbying the junior members of the AGI board
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‘Sir James Lovatt has been lobbying to combine the four police regions into one force
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She was anxious to show me her abilities, lobbying to be head of the royal guard, replacing Jax
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The lobbying efforts in the nation’s capital are
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In fact, her last known published article about the present conflict had been quite critical of Israeli actions and of the blind support Israel was getting from many American politicians and lobbying groups
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That expert, who represented a very powerful Jewish lobbying group in Washington, was now nearly ranting in a furious tone
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org/lobby/ So we need a change in our structure of government and laws for lobbying that do not allow them to advance toward self destruction nor countermand the people
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I envision the elimination of lobbying, and donations to candidates limited to individuals ($250/year per candidate max) as I stated in Chapter 1
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Corporate and company lobbying should be illegal, as it negates the democracy
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He befriended Bobby Baker who made a living off of lobbying senators
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Part of the guidelines will enforce no lobbying by companies or corporations, and elimination of campaign donations by companies/corporations, no donations on behalf of anyone, and maximum individual donations of $100-250
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Lobbying by companies and corporations needs to be eliminated and Congress needs to understand and respect the needs of the people first, as it is intended to be a government for the people
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they’re lobbying the local officials hard to press for eminent domain
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Google later announced they hired A DOZEN new lobbying firms!
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Her job here was largely done, and she was spending most of her days here in Las Vegas fielding calls from lobbying firms across the country
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"Your lobbying for this traitor should make me angry, but I won't let it because I understand that the offer put both of you in a difficult situation
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It was just that I’d convinced myself that if I was seventy, then my grown-up twins had been lobbying those high up in local government on my behalf, and it was deflating to learn that they had done nothing of the sort
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lobbying several of the partners to be allowed to bid for the work
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Won’t the callous politicians know that it’s in chasing the quick buck that these greedy guys bungle with their lives; why don’t they exhort farmers to part-opt for the cash crops to meet both ends? Moreover, it’s not as if the bankrupt traders and the insolvent others are not known to commit suicide but then, there is no political axe to grind over their deaths; it all boils down to lobbying, in the open as in the U
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its own enlightenment process, and as a matter of fact it has been lobbying the neighbouring
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My lobbying is successful, and we wait, while the other passengers on the minibus glare at me with undisguised hostility
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Bribing has been renamed as lobbying but it still serves the same purpose
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Colt continued my jump upwards towards the heavens by grasping my waist and lobbying me upward further
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To combat this threat, Thatcher is currently lobbying for American Tomahawk cruise missiles to be based on her island nation
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Deaver left the Reagan White House after the first term, opening a successful Washington lobbying agency
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Though the National Institutes of Health opposed a new institute on child health and development, on the grounds that it was unnecessary, heavy lobbying by the Shrivers, Dr
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And that’s why Bill Emmet decided that, while he was there lobbying Gordon, he would introduce himself to me and give me his pitch on “insurance parity
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We were in the middle of a debate about one of the more infamous bills during the Gingrich era, the Gun Crime Enforcement and Second Amendment Restoration Act of 1996, which, based on heavy lobbying by the NRA, proposed lifting the ban on many semiautomatic assault weapons and large-capacity ammunition-feeding devices that President Clinton had signed just two years earlier (and I had passed in the Rhode Island legislature)
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The next day I had a lot of meetings, because a lot of mental health advocates were in town lobbying on the Hill
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And those watching this process unfold began to realize just how personal the parity issue was becoming in the Senate and House, and within Washington lobbying and advocacy circles
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I’m trying to provide and encourage leadership to bring together groups that sometimes compete for research dollars and public awareness in their own national and state lobbying
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When I was in Congress, it was very clear which advocacy and lobbying efforts were “scoring” us, so that they could determine at the end of each session exactly what percentage of our votes were in line with their cause and mission
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Although this is a lobbying group for the industry, the site includes a complete listing of all available MLPs
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You can hear the gears of the lobbying machine spinning at full speed as it reminds Capitol Hill of the generous campaign contributions
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On the other side of the proverbial aisle was the Investment Company Institute (the lobbying arm for the mutual fund industry), which “had paid two million dollars for a study and got exactly what they wanted