In the video game Gray Matter a magicians club is named Daedalus, with a winged statue in the lobby in possible relation to him being an icon of magic, science or both.

Groups such as animal rights, and the gun control lobby became linked with environmentalism while sportsman, farmers and ranchers were no longer influential in the movement.

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The visual style makes everyone look fresh from the Wax Museum, and all the movie lacks is a lot of day-old gardenias and lilies and roses in the lobby, filling the place with a cloying sweet smell.

In due course, a printout of any results, marked with the submitter's identification, would be placed in an output tray, typically in the computer center lobby.

To this end, he designed a large lobby roofed with enormous skylights.

Others took issue with the large main lobby, particularly its attempt to lure casual visitors.

Many ad-hoc lobby groups form in response to a single issue and then dissolve once the concerns have been dealt with.

Although it did not sever ties with the People's Republic of China, expressing the intention to continue relations, Beijing suspended ties on 29 November after failed attempts to lobby President Anote Tong to change his mind.

The towers were simple rectangular boxes with a non-hierarchical wall enclosure, raised on stilts above a glass-enclosed lobby.

Motels which allow a room to be rented inexpensively for less than one full night's stay or which allow a couple not wishing to be seen together publicly to enter a room without passing through the office or lobby area have been nicknamed " no-tell motels " due to their long association with adultery.

Surrealist Street filled one side of the lobby with mannequins dressed by various Surrealists.

State supreme courts normally require a courtroom for oral argument, private chambers for all justices, a conference room, offices for law clerks and other support staff, a law library, and a lobby with a window where the court clerk can accept filings and release new decisions in the form of " slip opinions " ( that is, in looseleaf format held together only by a staple ).

It shares a lobby with the Anton Philipszaal, home of the Residentie Orkest, the city's most important symphony orchestra.

In modern times, the confirmation process has attracted considerable attention from the press and advocacy groups, which lobby senators to confirm or to reject a nominee depending on whether their track record aligns with the group's views.

** Hyatt Regency walkway collapse: Two skywalks filled with people at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri collapse into a crowded atrium lobby, killing 114.

While Marshall enjoyed considerable success in working with Congress and President Franklin D. Roosevelt, he refused to lobby for the position.

When the 25-year-old Mozart arrived in Vienna in 1781, seeking professional opportunity, one of the first tasks to which he addressed himself was to become acquainted with Stephanie and lobby him for an opera commission.

Powell had been talking with Wilson irregularly since June 1973 during chance meetings in the gentlemen's toilets of the aye lobby in the House of Commons.

She was given a ballroom studio with the premise that she would sing in the lobby every Saturday.

In Democrazia Cristiana, he was a member of Dossetti's lobby, together with Amintore Fanfani, Aldo Moro, and Giorgio La Pira.

Individuals and nonprofit organizations can also lobby as an act of volunteering or as a small part of their normal job ( for instance, a CEO meeting with a representative about a project important to his / her company, or an activist meeting with his / her legislator in an unpaid capacity ).

Sherman provided the struggling developer with a loan, taking retail space located in the lobby as partial payment.

Mayer sees all foreign policy as basically a projection of domestic politics, and much of his writing on international relations is devoted towards explaining just what domestic lobby was exerting the most influence on foreign policy at that particular moment of time " In Mayer's view, the " New Diplomacy ", associated with Lenin and Wilson, was associated with Russia and America, both societies that Mayer has argued either had destroyed or lacked the partial " modernized " societies that characterized the rest of Europe He sees the United States ' diplomacy at Versailles as an attempt to establish a " new ", but " counter-revolutionary " style of diplomacy against " revolutionary " Soviet diplomacy

Although Keating was able to win the support of a reluctant cabinet, in the face of opposition from the public, the welfare lobby, the ACTU, and the business community, Hawke intervened to drop the consumption tax.

His position had been undermined the previous year by his decision to lead sixty-nine Labour MPs through the division lobby in support of the Heath's government's motion to take Britain into the EEC.

Soong May-ling made several tours to the United States to lobby support for the Nationalist's war effort.

Fisher's idea that the auto industry and private contributions could pay for the highway was soon abandoned, and, while the LHA did help finance a few short sections of roadway, LHA founders ' and members ' contributions were used primarily for publicity and promotion to encourage travel on the Highway and to lobby officials at all levels to support its construction by governments.

Roth used his success and high popularity to lobby the government for tax cuts, but he did not support Clive Allen's statement to threaten to move Nortel to the United States if taxes were not lowered.

As well as this a group of backbenchers began to lobby in support of Haughey.

As well as this, a group of backbench TDs began to lobby other TDs in support of Charles Haughey, should a leadership election arise.

Other types of groups formed to support causes, including causes outside of themselves, are more often called advocacy groups, interest groups, lobby groups, pressure groups or promotional groups.

The hall includes multi-level boxes and moveable orchestra pit ; spacious backstage facilities with individual, crew and chorus dressing rooms, cast lounge, green room, loading dock and break areas ; an expansive multi-level lobby ; public and private reception areas ; full-service front-of-house, technical and support staff offices ; an on-site computerized box office ; and a 5-level parking garage adjacent to the building.

These organizations act as a support system for many neoconservative beliefs and help members of the movement draft policy papers, raise money and media attention, and lobby policymakers in order to protect their own political and personal agendas.

In 1950, with Diệm not making much impact, he and Thục applied for permission to travel to Rome for the Holy Year celebrations at the Vatican but went instead to Japan to lobby Prince Cường Để to enlist support to seize power.

These lobby groups, advocating for the boycott of large-scale logging corporations, successfully urged the public to join in and support the cause as activists themselves.

On July 17, 1912, he lost the election to Edmund Schulthess in the first vote, partially due to Schulthess's strong support by Catholic Conservatives, farmers ' organizations, and the industrial lobby.

There are approximately 8, 500 councils in England and the National Association of Local Councils exists to provide support and lobby services.

Like his famous father, Tennyson was an ardent imperialist, and in 1883 he had become a council member of the Imperial Federation League, a lobby group set up to support the imperialist ideas of the Colonial Secretary, Joseph Chamberlain.

" Heseltine was frustrated at Kinnock's failure to exploit the moment and claimed that Thatcher's statement brought " the politics of the matter to an end " and that he would support the Government in the lobby.

Peters was viewed as an acolyte of Rob Muldoon's protectionist economic policies and had a substantial support base amongst New Zealand's senior citizens and their related lobby organisations.

Meanwhile, a vote on the lower bid was delayed in the aftermath of Upper Deck's withdrawal, allowing management more time to lobby for shareholder support.

These associations may lobby various institutions to encourage political support or to oppose measures that they judge counter-productive, such as to oppose the introduction of compulsory bicycle helmet legislation.

Initially criticised as being too close to the waste industry lobby, Jackson managed to unite most of her opponents in support of an ambitious final text which the Council of Ministers only agreed with reluctance.

Following this step, a small offshoot group sought to form the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, a small non-denominational group that could lobby more successfully by incorporating Anglican and Parliamentary support ( Quakers were barred from Parliament until the early nineteenth century, whereas the Anglican Church had the right to seats in the House of Lords ).

State affiliates regularly lobby state legislators for funding and other resources ; they seek to influence education policy ; they campaign for higher professional standards for educators and support professionals ; and, they file legal actions to protect academic freedom and the rights of school employees.

During the Second Sino-Japanese War ( which took place simultaneously with World War II ), the China lobby helped convince Congress to donate billions of dollars of hard cash and many tons of war material in support of Chiang Kai-shek's war against the Japanese in China and Indochina even before formal American entrance into the Second World War following the attack on Pearl Harbor.