1.   But inside an ornate chamber off the Senate floor, control of the agenda was clearly on the mind of Democrat Joe Biden of Delaware.

2.   Dressed in a dark suit, the president appeared in the ornate Judiciary Committee chambers on large-screen television sets.

3.   Indeed it was, as several hundred gardeners in baseball caps and work jackets filed quietly into the ornate Council chambers Tuesday morning, with scores more waiting outside.

4.   One by one, as they filed into the ornate Senate chamber, they made their way over to the old man with the orange hair.

5.   Rather than convening in some ornate chamber, the hearing will take the form of a conference call.

6.   Some Republican senators expressed concern that summoning Lewinsky to the ornate Senate chamber would be distasteful, inappropriate and politically damaging to Republicans.

7.   The intense interest in the issue was demonstrated by the lobbyists, journalists and regulators who filled all the seats in the ornate chambers.

8.   The hush in the ornate chamber was broken by shouts from an Anglican admirer in the galleries.

9.   The members of the Northern Ireland Assembly were elected last June and have already held meetings in their ornate refurbished chambers in the imposing Stormont government palace in Belfast.

10.   The only Indian presence was provided by a dozen portraits of Indian warriors hanging on the walls of the ornate chamber.