It still does, but the reality is that when you walk up those stairs it's like wading up a waterfall of piss.
But if he was Bono, Ed Miliband was Robbie Williams; wading deep into the audience, cracking jokes and asking everyone's name.
Louise Mensch, the writer and former Tory MP who is never afraid of wading into an argument, says it "displays prudishness that Rupert Campbell-Black would disdain".
The simplest computer can run rings around the brightest person when it comes to wading through complicated mathematical equations.
But the committee is wary of the political risks of wading into private credit markets.
People who have been sleeping at the roadside or on the corrugated iron roofs of their crude shacks are wading back through the inky, fetid, sewage-contaminated water beneath.
The governor risks a great deal by wading into the fight to save Detroit; but the alternatives may be worse.
There is a second issue over the late reporting of customer complaints, which may result in a small fine, it adds.One could argue that the consumer of any insurance product would be better-educated after wading through Mr Johns's site.
Some find his speeches entrancing, but few, wading through his long Latinate sentences, can work out exactly what he stands for.
And because the phone can't take advantage of high-speed 3G cellular networks, surfing the web is more like wading through molasses.As an iPod, the iPhone is also less than adequate especially when trying to store videos and photographs as well as songs.
Halal certification is regulated by state authorities in Malaysia and Brunei; in other countries, where states are wary of wading into religious matters, defining authenticity is left to the companies themselves, to trade bodies, or to private certifiers.
