The man in the lobby leaned back in his chair, snapped open his paper again and nodded, eyes now squinting suspiciously: "You can drink wine at ours".
Gustave's activities are relayed to us via the very Zweig-esque device of an itinerant novelist (Jude Law) encountering the hotel's mysterious owner, one Zero Moustafa (F Murray Abraham, playing the rich, sonorous tones card for all it's worth), who unburdens himself of his childhood stint as a lobby boy back in the 1930s.
One financial services lobbyist called Dodd-Frank's passage 'half-time.' The scheduled vote in the House... shows how prophetic the Wall Street lobby was back in 2010 and that we can expect more of the same from industry".
Durbin had been lobbying legislators back in Illinois to pass marriage equality, while in Washington he was deciding whether to vote against Leahy's amendment.
You, Mr Cameron, were in the government lobby backing military action against Iraq.
The anti-gay marriage lobby, backed by the Catholic Church and right-wing opposition, has already held large marches in Paris.
The dredgers have been lobbying to get back in, on the grounds that they have exhausted the supply of scallops elsewhere.
Although gun lobby-backed legislation was introduced in 12 states in 2009, not a single "guns on campus" bill was enacted into law, including failed proposals in Texas, Alabama, Missouri and Louisiana.
Glassco has lobbied for Golden Pass since the Podesta Group began lobbying for the company back in 2012, according to the federal lobbying disclosure database.
Right now, we do a loop, but maybe we will end in Lobby 7 instead of back in Kendall Square.
