Because so many members wanted a piece of the action, the text's momentum was broken up by an endless parade of flat, one-sentence recitations, and many lawmakers later returned to their BlackBerrys or left the chamber.
Responding to the judgment, Cori Crider, a director of the human rights organisation Reprieve and the family's US lawyer, said: "The government so fears this case going to trial that they have stalled for years by throwing up a parade of scarecrows – claiming, for example, that the United States would be angered if Mr and Mrs Belhaj had their day in court in Britain.
Cori Crider, a director at human rights charity Reprieve, which also represents the family, said: "The government so fears this case going to trial that they have stalled for years by throwing up a parade of scarecrows - claiming, for example, that the United States would be angered if Mr and Mrs Belhaj had their day in court in Britain.
Tents have been set up in a parade ground in the city centre to house thousands of people displaced by the earthquake.
She ended up at her garage, followed by a parade of officials.
It's certainly in the right spot, sandwiched between two post-war office blocks on a nondescript stretch of Old Street, central London, livened up by the parade of cycle tribes zipping between the West End and Shoreditch: the Pashley-riding ladies about town, the "fixed-gear" indie kids, the aspiring racers in Lycra.
We roll up to BeCool, where we're greeted by a parade of pale kids squatting, smoking.
At our hotel, she was instantly scooped up by a grinning receptionist who carried her outside and paraded her up and down the street, introducing her to everyone who lived along that narrow alleyway.
The protest was set up by an anarchist group called Class War, which advertised the event on Facebook as the third "Fuck Parade".
