Sentence examples for actively lobby for from inspiring English sources
Although the majority of both investor groups expect their funds to actively lobby for sustainable improvements in companies, they perceive conducting an active dialogue with 'unethical' companies as only somewhat effective, and being an active owner in both 'ethical' and 'unethical' companies even as somewhat ineffective (Table 12).
Early last year, Merck announced that it would no longer actively lobby for state mandates.
Bin Hammam has always insisted he didn't actively lobby for his country.
Major League Baseball actively lobbied for the change and the National Football League supported it.
So is actively lobbying for clemency for Indonesian nationals who are on death row in other countries, such as Saudi Arabia.
Australia is currently actively lobbying for a seat on the Human Rights Council, in the ballot to take place in 2017.
The E.R.A. was supported by Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Jimmy Carter, and actively lobbied for by the First Ladies Betty Ford and Rosalynn Carter.
Since beginning as interim director, Clancy has ordered additional training for agents who work the White House grounds and actively lobbied for more funding for overworked agents, who the report found were often stretched "beyond [their] limits".
The consumer group Which? has been actively lobbying for the threshold for legal action to be lowered, warning that four in five people are regularly cold-called at home, while a third of householders feel intimidated by the messages.
Some 550 members of Eta are held in Spanish and French jails, with some prisoners actively lobbying for the group to give up a campaign of bombs and shootings that has claimed 800 lives over five decades.
