1.   Activists from across the nation sit at linen-covered tables in the ornate room, posing plaintive questions about the political obstacles they face in overhauling education.

2.   On Thursday, the fuss plopped into an ornate congressional hearing room, with Rep. Bill Emerson, a Missouri Republican, weighing in against the National Park Service.

3.   Once she relented, she emphasized that her family rarely uses the ornate formal rooms, with their luxurious wallpaper and Hudson River School landscapes.

4.   On the far wall is a painting of an ornate room.

5.   The boxing ring looked so out of place on a deep carpet in the middle of a room ornate with gold.

6.   The coffees were held in the Map Room, the ornate room in the residential area where Franklin D. Roosevelt tracked troop movements during World War II.

7.   They held two meetings with Jeffords Wednesday in an ornate room off the Senate floor.

8.   Thompson wanted to hold the proceedings in the same ornate room in the Russell Building, across the street from the Capitol, where the Watergate hearings played out.

9.   Unlike some of his predecessors, Cuomo rarely used the ornate room while in office, disdaining the formality of its stained glass and wood-paneled walls.

10.   Visitors can tour the ornate rooms, in which the original colonial furniture is on display.