(n.) The crucible or basin in a furnace which receives the molten metal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Palmer was unaware the Coalition's Direct Action bill was before the Senate You are very naïve when it comes to politics, my girl Figuring out how Palmer envisages this could ever eventuate is one aim as we sit down the next morning for an interview in the resort’s “Titanic II room”, adjacent to the resort’s foyer, pool room and empty breakfast bar.
(2) What to say to the children who went to a pop concert and left to find their waiting parents blown apart by the hate and callous indifference in the foyer?
(3) Alan arrived on his own and we greeted each other in the foyer.
(4) Far from the initial foyer, the spreading seems mostly done through airways.
(5) After the election, Gove took this all down and put this 19th-century pupil writing desk in the foyer.
(6) He looks like a disgusted George Clooney, or a man arguing about brogues in a hotel foyer in a Tom Ford film.
(7) In the foyer, the gunman looked directly at a man working behind the bar who ducked and shielded a woman working with him from shots, he told Kolek afterwards.
(8) In a running confrontation, both sides threw molotov cocktails, one of which set alight a makeshift barricade in the foyer.
(9) The imposing foyer, which links them, is an exhibition space.
(10) The union has stressed the need for peaceful protest to its 33,000 members; last night saw the vice-chancellor Michael Arthur, chair of the Russell Group and a big player in national university politics, hold one of his regular Q&A sessions in the union foyer.
(11) When the council took the decision – with its landlord East Thames Housing – that 30 families were ready to move from the Focus E15 Foyer in Stratford, we should have engaged with them from the start, planned how we would support their next steps and worked with them individually.
(12) In some ways, roaches are no different to gorillas, gerbils or iguanas, or any creatures that we don’t routinely eat Representatives of many of these enterprises have made their way to Ede, carting along product samples or prototypes to display in a large foyer at the conference hotel.
(13) The restriction of smoking to a foyer area outside the office complex resulted in a slow but eventual reduction in nicotine concentrations in the office complex.
(14) Foyers are a French idea developed in the UK in the 1990s by the housing charity Shelter and drinks giant Diageo.
(15) Arctic Monkeys were one of the first to play Ibiza Rocks in 2007, and their debut album seems to be on constant repeat in the foyer, which feels appropriate given the residents checking each other out around the pool, thinking something along the lines of: "I bet you look good on the dancefloor..." There is a small supermarket next door, over half of which is given over to alcohol.
(16) Busy foyers, unexpected music, lights going up and down and applause can all be unsettling.
(17) Once Galloway and Wilson have left the stage, the former takes up residence in the foyer, where he signs copies of two books that shine a light on his singular politics: his Fidel Castro Handbook, and his account of the sectarian ugliness experienced by the Celtic manager, Neil Lennon .
(18) Drew had tried his absolute best to have this reading come through, inasmuch as he had emailed details of Toby and how he died to Sally's website and had left notes (so-called "love letters") in a box in the foyer just before the show.
(19) The rest, in residential care homes, foyers or other arrangements, are often the most vulnerable, but simultaneously the least likely to be told of their rights, or offered care and support on saving care.
(20) I'm standing in the foyer, and I can hear a huge crowd laughing.
Lobby
Definition:
(n.) A passage or hall of communication, especially when large enough to serve also as a waiting room. It differs from an antechamber in that a lobby communicates between several rooms, an antechamber to one only; but this distinction is not carefully preserved.
(n.) That part of a hall of legislation not appropriated to the official use of the assembly; hence, the persons, collectively, who frequent such a place to transact business with the legislators; any persons, not members of a legislative body, who strive to influence its proceedings by personal agency.
(n.) An apartment or passageway in the fore part of an old-fashioned cabin under the quarter-deck.
(n.) A confined place for cattle, formed by hedges. trees, or other fencing, near the farmyard.
(v. i.) To address or solicit members of a legislative body in the lobby or elsewhere, with the purpose to influence their votes.
(v. t.) To urge the adoption or passage of by soliciting members of a legislative body; as, to lobby a bill.
Example Sentences:
(1) Proposals to increase the tax on high-earning "non-domiciled" residents in Britain were watered down today, after intense lobbying from the business community.
(2) But at least one customer signalled that America's gun lobby might be on the cusp of a moment of introspection.
(3) The history of events at the end of 2010, from the moment on 4 November when Cable called in the regulators, shows how relentlessly James Murdoch and his PR man Frédéric Michel lobbied and berated the politicians who were trying to stand in their way.
(4) It's that he habitually abuses his position by lobbying ministers at all; I've heard from former ministers who were astonished by the speed with which their first missive from Charles arrived, opening with the phrase: "It really is appalling".
(5) The agreement, hailed as a "landmark" deal and a breakthrough by politicians and the green lobby alike, came before a crucial EU summit opening in Brussels tomorrow at which 27 prime ministers and presidents are supposed to finalise an ambitious package to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2020.
(6) Some business groups have been lobbying fiercely against the reform, though others support it.
(7) "It looks as if the noxious mix of rightwing Australian populism, as represented by Crosby and his lobbying firm, and English saloon bar reactionaries, as embodied by [Nigel] Farage and Ukip, may succeed in preventing this government from proceeding with standardised cigarette packs, despite their popularity with the public," said Deborah Arnott, chief executive of the health charity Action on Smoking and Health.
(8) They had mounted a vigorous lobbying campaign, both in public and behind the scenes, since the legislation first came to light this month .
(9) The Financial Services Authority is meant to be the City's watchdog but "devastating" internal documents reveal it has secretly co-ordinated high-level lobbying strategies with the industry it is supposed to police.
(10) In this vision, people will go to polling stations on 18 September with a mindset somewhere between that of a lobby correspondent and a desiccated calculating machine.
(11) The UK, France and Germany have been accused of hypocrisy for lobbying behind the scenes to keep outmoded car tests for carbon emissions, but later publicly calling for a European investigation into Volkswagen’s rigging of car air pollution tests .
(12) And according to Tory insiders, Shapps had lobbied hard for a more prominent role in the government, making some enemies within the party.
(13) In a single letter in February 2005, Charles urged a badger cull to prevent the spread of bovine tuberculosis – damning opponents to the cull as “intellectually dishonest”; lobbied for his preferred person to be appointed to crack down on the mistreatment of farmers by supermarkets; proposed his own aide to brief Downing Street on the design of new hospitals; and urged Blair to tackle an EU directive limiting the use of herbal alternative medicines in the UK.
(14) So sensitive is the case that Hunt, his civil servants and advisers are expected to rebuff any external lobbying – so they can base their judgement only on a analysis of the public interest issues raised by the proposed deal that was completed by media regulator Ofcom today.
(15) The British financial services industry spent £92m last year lobbying politicians and regulators in an "economic war of attrition" that has secured a string of policy victories.
(16) Although the CBI supported the reforms, there was heavy lobbying from other EU business groups to reject the reforms, that would have helped to prop up the price of carbon dioxide permits to businesses.
(17) In the largest rebellion, 57 Lib Dems voted against the government, with only a handful of backbenchers supporting the party's ministers in the lobbies.
(18) Backlogs and staff shortages have long been seized upon by veterans groups lobbying for more resources, but it is the apparent cover-up of the scale of the problem that has transformed these latest complaints into a growing political problem for the White House.
(19) Asked whether the US tax code was convoluted and difficult to understand partly because of lobbying by companies including Apple for exemptions, Cook replied: "No doubt."
(20) But he admitted he did not show the cabinet secretary Lord O'Donnell a private memo sent in November by Hunt lobbying him to back the bid.