Others objected and got into the party room and on their own, redecorated with traditional Christmas colors.
Then, at 7 p.m. local time, our party room on the 32nd floor at the Ritz began to shake.
But the numbers that matter for Mr Rudd are to be found not in the polls but the party room at Parliament House.
She intervened (and likely saved my marriage) when I wanted to buy that really cool house with the basement party room and built-in urinal.
"All of those are impacting CEOs' levels of confidence to really deal with their businesses on a go-forward basis, " he said in the PwC Lounge, an ultra-chic Davos party room with white sofas and chairs and orange and red flowers.
The bass has fantastic oomph and the audio plenty of clarity and depth when you're holding the Jambox in your hand, pointed at your face, but it won't fill a large party room (or function terribly well outdoors, as we learned camping out for Black Friday) and still sound like something worth listening to -- and the close-set speakers don't provide much stereo separation to speak of, either.
If Christians outside the Republican Party are given room to express alternative views in politics, many on the left who view them as political enemies may find that they are able to unite with them on more issues than they expected.
As the night progresses from lounging poolside to entertaining in the living room, the inMotion Air keeps the music going and enables the party to flow from room to room.
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The quick joke always plays well in a room at a party but people seldom remember what the message was, or who it was for.
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The capper: At my going-away party, one tool-room engineer--a guy who had hazed me hard in the beginning--asked if I wouldn't mind talking to his son about going to college.
The Republican Party set up a war room down the street from the convention, staffed by volunteers busily chatting on their phones and hammering away on laptops opposing much of what the Democrats say.
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In the last general elections in 2009, the party set up a digital war room.
Cast your mind back 10 or 15 years and think of your living room after a big party.
Snubbed and angry, Mr Peres led the half-dozen Labour Party ministers out of the cabinet room before the vote was taken.
But I think the elephant in the room for the Republican Party is the war, and I think for Senator Domenici coming out yesterday, that's going to have a profound impact.
Last year, Google had a table at one of the three main nightly events associated with CES. This year, the company just held a small party and rented a private meeting room.
But the Obama party is a ticketed event, standing room only for about 65, 000 people in an area specifically for them.
So perhaps there will still be room for those shady 3rd-party sites after all.
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Just to the right of the party box is Song Yingxing, a conference room named for the Chinese encyclopedist, which has more recently adopted the "Mushroom Kingdom" name, owing to a slew of gaming consoles and peripherals housed inside.
Amazon streaming has already made its way to the living room in a number of third-party set-top boxes.
There is no room for extremist views in the Conservative Party.
You can hold a poetry slam in your living room and ask for donations for the poetry slam party.
Fortunately, some issues remain on which the centre and left of the party are not at loggerheads and where there is plenty of room for new, bright thinking.
That back-room diplomacy convinced one Sunni group, the Iraqi Islamic Party, to vote for the constitution.
But the ruralistas are the largest cross-party block in Congress, and that limited the president's room for manoeuvre.
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At 6 a.m. the next morning Carey, shaving and still in his robe, answered a knock at his hotel room and was handed an envelope he assumed was a party invitation.
The dining room was sumptuously decorated, and the food, for her party of eight, was delicious and plentiful.
On one quest, I entered a party and all the party-goers kept looking at me while they were walking around the room -- or even into each other.
Unlike any other wireless audio system at this affordable price point, users will get the party moving with distinctive sound definition and distortion free audio, even at room-filling volume levels.
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Patriots owner Robert Kraft is in the trophy room at Gillette Stadium, playing host at his usual pre-game party.
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