Sentences with phrase «in the lobby while»

When I walked into church each week, I'd often hang out in the lobby while the band belted out those modern worship songs I was convinced existed mainly to fill the coffers of major record labels.

Models in Aaron de Mey's disco - ball eye makeup lingered in the lobby while Father John Misty kicked things off for performances from Beck, Cherry Glazer, Curtis Harding, and others.

We were also able to leave our luggage in the lobby while we explored the island on our last day before we headed home.

Because Snap mode is a core feature of Xbox One that lets you do two things at once, you no longer have to wait in lobbies while Xbox Live is matchmaking for you.

This is also a very effective way to relax and show good posture, though you may not want to do this one in the lobby while waiting for your interviewer.

Not exact matches

What candidates do while they're waiting in your lobby can tell you a lot.

What candidates do while waiting in the lobby can indicate a lot.

Queen's Professor Warren Mabee was quoted in the Toronto Star saying that «this could be a way for the pipeline lobby to emphasize a point that while they've had some problems, there's not been this level of death and this level of impact.»

While the auto and farm lobbies are seeking to preserve cross-border supply chains and to retain access to markets in Mexico and Canada, the tech sector wants a revamped NAFTA to help it grow future business.

While in the midst of putting together one of her perfectly structured pay - for - play deals to help kill an import - tax bill (even hiring actors as instigators among the protesters), Sloane is asked to take the lead in her firm helping the gun lobby attract scared moms.

While the CCA declares on its website that it doesn't lobby for policies that determine «the basis for or duration of an individual's incarceration or detention,» the Justice Policy Institute has documented several pieces of federal legislation the CCA lobbied on in recent years, including funding related to private prisons and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention.

A recent report from the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) points out that restaurant company CEOs receive huge tax - subsidized paydays while their companies lobby to prevent an increase in the minimum wage.

In most open - plan offices, the bigwigs have private offices while everyone else is crammed into the architectural equivalent of a hotel lobby.

He ended up taking back a new shady character to our room to have sex each night while I had to hang out in the lobby of our crappy hotel, which turned off all power after a certain time in the evening.

While it might seem like the NRA is impossible to defeat, powerful lobbying organizations have lost in the past.

Exposed steel beams, exposed brick and poured concrete floors are a nod to the 300 - plus employees» former home in the Friendly Confines, while prized Cubs memorabilia and trophies are displayed, museum - style, in the building's lobby, now open to the public.

And, while GDPR advocates have pointed to the lobbying Google and Facebook have done against the law as evidence that it will be effective, that is to completely miss the point: of course neither company wants to incur the costs entailed in such significant regulation, which will absolutely restrict the amount of information they can collect.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declared his support for TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline in a speech to the Calgary Petroleum Club in October 2013 while also criticizing the Conservative government's approach to lobbying for the pipeline in Washington D.C. «They have poked and prodded, annoyed and irritated the Obama administration at every turn.

While the remaining three candidates may not espouse hard edged conservatism like Dr. Morton or Mr. Orman, the three candidates have received financial support from not - so - progressive groups, like the Merit Contractors Association, which is an anti-union lobby group in the construction industry.

While the rules governing third - party campaigns in provincial elections are problematic, the provincial government needs to lay out fair rules governing financial disclosures and amounts that third - party campaigns and lobby groups can spend influencing voters in municipal elections.

While opportunities remain in 2016 and beyond for opponents to derail the rule, against overwhelming Wall Street lobbying the COI survived.

Some lawmakers are advocating for legislation to assist DREAMERs, those protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, while other lawmakers are lobbying for reduced immigration in various forms.

Claude King, the pastor who leads the ministry to the homeless, looks like he could handle himself in a fight — and indeed while I visited the church he was called to the lobby to pacify a brewing confrontation.

Evangelical and fundamentalist mission agencies have grown in proportion, while mainline bodies have focused more on assisting indigenous ministries, supplying social services, lobbying for social justice through political channels, and even turning the cultural conduit around by sponsoring reverse missionary programs.14 Viewed from only the American context, it appears that mainstream Protestantism has suffered a serious decline in its missionary efforts.

Don Browning, director of the Religion, Culture and Family Project at the University of Chicago Divinity School, has observed that in the 1970s and»80s most mainline Protestant denominations severely cut back their funding of family ministries programs while continuing to fund government lobbying efforts.

While I am unable to draw a comparison because I never visited the old hotel, the new one certainly is grand, and judging by how bustling it was with locals just hanging out in the lobby, pub, and coffee shop, I think it's still got its old charm....

While Mr Pelle acknowledged the Thirst for Good scheme was put forward by the Australian Food and Grocery Council to represent all industry players, he said the Greenpeace campaign targeted Coca - Cola Amatil because it is «the main company in Australia and around the world that has led lobbying efforts to ensure cash for container deposit schemes never get up.»

While the hotel's lobby bar, Cocktail Bar is already taking a modern, culinary approach to its cocktails by creating original craft drinks, Asay's affinity for and knowledge of microbrews will also make an appearance on the menu as well as some innovative approaches to New Orleans classics, such as cask - aging sazerac in an oak barrel for a more complex spirit — a process believed to be pioneered in Asay's hometown of Portland, Ore..

Most prominent in the lobby is MIX Lounge, the contemporary centerpiece of the hotel's atrium lobby that serves as a gathering place to enjoy cold beer, signature cocktails, an extensive wine list and delectable appetizers while watching the flat screen TVs or socializing, or both.

Galley, the hotel's lobby bar with a nautical design theme, will inspire guests to indulge in handcrafted cocktails, light bites and shared tapas, while overlooking the outdoor oasis with indoor and outdoor seating.

«Someone said it was the greatest dropped pass of all time, but it wasn't; it was a knockdown,» he said as he lobbied for his place in Michigan history while signing autographs in the stadium parking lot after the game.

While Malik Monk sits in the middle of the Augusta Marriott lobby, he also stands squarely at the forefront of multiple and interlocking high - stakes games.

I notice a commercial on the TV in the Bank of America lobby while I am filling out my deposit slip.

«The players like to say I'm seeing the bogeyman again,» Calipari said last week while sitting in the lobby of a Manhattan hotel.

While wireless high speed internet was free (the entire hotel is equipped for wireless)-- the signal in my room was not very strong — I ended up not using my laptop and running down to the lobby to use the internet.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

Gaskin presides over a large multi-faceted business empire comprised of trade, propaganda and lobbying organizations, all with one purpose in mind: allowing uneducated women like herself to provide substandard medical care to pregnant women while ignoring the growing pile of tiny bodies.

• We lobby for changes in the law, in Government policy and in the targets set for public services that support families, while paying particular attention to families who are disadvantaged.

Tour has always been such a fun and selfish time for me, with no obligations other than showing up at lobby call and putting on a pair of nice shoes for the show every once in a while.

He gave me a card from Shannon, called her while walking on the park and the next day at 7:30 am she was in my hotel lobby with the stroller.

According to the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a food and nutrition lobbying group that supports the bill, seltzer water is forbidden under the guidelines while candy bars, cookies and potato chips are allowed.

A great way to pass the time while waiting in your doctor's lobby.

She told us they were having trouble finding a room, it was really busy, could we just wait in the lobby for a bit while she asked around?

The companies have the Department of Trade and Industry lobbying legislators on their behalf, while the Department of Health, WHO and UNICEF have said in joint statement that the draft bill: «aims to support multinational companies while damaging the Filipino society: families, the mothers and children.»

While I remain pessimistic about what those rules will look like after industry lobbying (more on that in a future post), at the very least they should put a stop to a school - supplied -LSB-...]

While the books in this library are not available for loan, the public is welcome to use the library by appointment at times that are convenient to the theater (for instance, our lobby is small, so the hour before a performance is not the most convenient time to have visitors).

The lobby team at my last nonpofit (enviro) job drove home this observation repeatedly, putting the procedural victories and losses along the legislative way in perspective — sure, the Senate might strip a critical provision out or add in something nasty while voting on floor amendments, but the matter really wasn't settled until conference.

The fact elements of the anti-smoking movement are opposing them while lobbying for evidence - free bans on smoking in public shows how tragically they have lost their way.

It is true Eweida would have been perfectly able to do her job while wearing a crucifix and the judgement in her favour is not a big deal, especially on a day which can only be considered a serious set - back for the Christian lobby.

I ran into Sen. Antoine Thompson a little while ago outside the Assembly chamber, where he had come to lobby some of his colleagues on the other side of the Capitol in hopes of changing some minds on the SUNY empowerment plan, particularly as it pertains to UB2020.