Sentence examples for constantly lobbying from inspiring English sources

Ethel drove in for the best hearings and took a chair near the press table, calling us all "kiddo," chewing gum constantly, lobbying us in asides: "Can you believe this guy?" Other days she'd issue cultural comments.

Baltimore spent the last two years of his life constantly lobbying for his new charter, though the obstacles proved difficult.

He constantly lobbied policymakers through personal contacts and groups such as the Network for Social Change.

MANAGEMENT experts and institutional investors constantly lobby American executives to own more stock in the companies they run.

It was a hole that remained gaping three decades later, as service chiefs constantly lobbied for "Falklands-style" capability, and politicians felt they had to capitulate.

Available in only a small number of cinemas and DVDs (provision is constantly lobbied for by the vision-impaired community), it's essentially a voiceover track that narrates visual experiences so audiences without sight can understand them.

But despite his softly spoken nature, De Dora describes Roy as one the most "devoted and hardened" advocates of free expression "not just in Bangladesh, but the world over" who would constantly lobby international organisations to bring issues of secularist struggle in Bangladesh to the fore.

"It has also become clear that there are people who have been determined to undermine our club at any cost and have constantly lobbied Uefa and other organisations to take action against Rangers".

The strategy has twin benefits: the interest group effected by the policy is required to constantly lobby for reauthorization and the budget deficit can be made to look a bit smaller, because the number crunchers assume that when the tax credit or subsidy expires, Congress won't extend it.

This was easier said than done, since, unlike the high-flying Cleveland Magnet model, our version would draw from a population of students who, in many cases, were already gasping for academic survival and whose parents weren't informed or available enough to constantly lobby on behalf of their kids' futures.

Another reason for the contentious nature of defense budget discussions is that 63 years of ever-increasing defense budgets has fomented a military-industrial complex that constantly lobbies for billion-dollar defense projects.