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Usage examples of lobbies.

It is an amoral, institutionalized civil war of special interests and lobbies, all fighting to seize a momentary control of the legislative machinery, to extort some special privilege at one another's expense by an act of government—i.

One of the few buildings inside the habitat, it grew up out of the parkland several kilometres away from the circle of starscraper lobbies halfway along the cylinder.

Back along the cylindrical habitat, Dariat could see the broad rosy bracelet fading to emerald around the midsection where the starscraper lobbies were.

Most of them travelled directly to the other camps ringing starscraper lobbies, coercing their occupants into Bonney’s scheme.

The possessed made their reluctant way into the starscraper lobbies, and down into the first-floor stations.

They emerged from the lobbies, consoling each other as best they could.

The whole population had come up out of the starscrapers to wait in the parkland around the lobbies until the electricity was restored.

This unwelcome discovery made itself quite clear as Dariat trudged over the grassland towards the ring of starscraper lobbies in the middle of the habitat.

Connected by corridors with the lobby of their building were other lobbies, each with its oval of lift shafts and drop shafts.

Together twenty-five of the lobbies and the oval buildings that ascended seventy-five stories above them made up an urban center.

They visited other lobbies, all empty, all identical in their dimensions and their painted cement walls — these were public spaces, and they could not be attuned to individuals nor adjusted to individual color sensitivities — and their painted murals celebrating the victory of humanity over the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

He could go through corridors to twenty-four other lobbies just like this one.

All Congress's talk about health-care reform and a Patients' Bill of Rights, for example, McCain has said publicly is total bullshit because the GOP is in the pocket of HMO lobbies and the Democrats are funded and controlled by trial lawyers' lobbies, and it is in these backers' self-interest to see that the current insane U.

A politician who all of a sudden out of nowhere comes on TV as this total longshot candidate and says that Washington is paralyzed, that everybody there's been bought off, and that the only way to really ``return government to the people'' the way all the other candidates claim they want to do is to outlaw huge, unreported political contributions from corporations and lobbies and PACs .

The ancient walls could not contain it, the sounds of cheering burst through to the lobbies, to the stairs, to the streets, to the boy who had walked those streets nineteen years ago.