And then, thinking once more that it was all over, we went into the division lobbies again.
By a series of circumstances, into which I need not now go, the manifestation took the shape of refusing to go into the division lobby, and retaining our seats.
He requires the glow of a good audience—of a cheering party—of the certainty of success in the division lobby—to bring out his best powers.
In a division lobby, probably on the Wednesday night, I came in touch with a friend, then a subordinate member of the Government, who had been among the keenest advocates of our cause.
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Many of us did not wish to support a policy in thedivisionlobbythat would set so many reprehensible precedents.
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Is he prepared to endorse that opinion in thedivisionlobby?
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It would render the position impossible if, say, the secretary of a particular minister was voting in adivisionlobbydifferent from that of the minister himself.
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There have been suggestions that electronic voting may be easier and quicker to do than physically going through adivisionlobby.
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Indeed, it may well have been pressure-group activity that brought pro-abolitionists into the division lobbies in 1956 after having abstained in 1955.
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The total cost of the alterations to the division lobbies was sonic £2,500.
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The doorkeepers then unlock the doors to the division lobbies.
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