1.   It has no substantial legislative powers and is as much a debating chamber as anything.

2.   The debating chamber is often simply used as a platform for trading verbal abuse.

3.   He also had to answer some tricky questions from the floor of the historic debating chamber.

4.   More than a thousand students packed into the debating chamber to hear Lennox Lewis talk about his life in the ring.

5.   A new probe has been ordered to ensure that the Commons debating chamber itself is free of the threat.

6.   He says that if the lobbies were knocked out M Ps could have a semicircular debating chamber, electronic voting and a named desk each.

7.   As the fourth-ranking House Republican, he organizes annual private weekends with Democratic colleagues seeking respite from the edgy fray of the debating chamber.

8.   He eschewed personal attacks on ideological opponents, fervently expressing a belief that Parliament must remain a civil debating chamber.

9.   He quit in one breathtaking utterance, as if flicking a trump card onto the heap of impeachment angst festering before his eyes in the debating chamber.

10.   His turn came even as the Senate debating chamber briefly rang with obsequies for the campaign finance issue.