Sentence examples for working the hall from inspiring English sources
Representatives from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Getty in Los Angeles and the Cornell University Museum were spotted working the hall.
In Albany, Mr. Jackson was a well-known figure with political aspirations who could often be found working the hall behind the Assembly chamber with official lobbyists for the company, buttonholing city politicians and urging them to support the company's halfway houses.
But Lorenzo Fertitta, the chief executive of Ultimate Fighting Championship, was also working the halls, flanked by four beefy fighters (and several less well-built executives).
So no one should be surprised that big lenders have been working the halls of Congress trying to weaken its powers.
Obama's shift in tactics — from working the halls of Congress to garnering support from around the country — is, Cassidy says, "a leaf out of the Reagan book" and "the only way Congress reacts to anything".
Mr. Golub was intended to be A.I.G.'s Washington face, working the halls of Congress to ensure that no one could claim again that A.I.G.'s taxpayer-owners were being kept in the dark.
This week, though, she is busy working the halls of the United Nations, clad in that black T-shirt, arguing her group's case for poor people with AIDS without uttering an angry word.
"In this era of exorbitant ticket prices and concessions and parking, someone's got to be out there, working the halls, working the escalators, letting people know you care and are trying to give them the best product for their money.
It's his first year at the World Economic Forum and he's partly here because he's become an investor in cyber security firm Wisekey, which is working the halls talking to big corporate about their solutions.
Because Petraeus was so successful - and because his role involved national security and warfare, not working the halls of Congress - some have questioned whether the Clinton-era rules of sex scandal should apply.
