Sentence examples for forced to lobby from inspiring English sources

But Congress has balked at approving aid in an election year dominated by domestic concerns, and the President has been forced to lobby increasingly hard merely to persuade lawmakers to consider his request.

Lord Robertson, the former secretary general, was forced to lobby hard for the helicopters at the NATO defense ministers meeting in Brussels and at every farewell meeting as he completed his term in December, finally getting commitments of three Black Hawk helicopters from Turkey and at least three more from the Netherlands.

Seeing it was their turn next, Hollywood studios joined forces to lobby Congress to prevent their films from likewise being ripped off.

With the Liberal Democrats' manifesto again promising to lower the voting age to 16, several young people's organisations have joined forces to lobby for voting reform.

The two largest advertising industry associations are joining forces to lobby for changes in the process marketers use to buy billions of dollars in commercial time ahead of the fall television season in what is known as the upfront market.

Frantic requests went from Union Pacific to both President Johnson and Secretary of the Treasury McCulloch to "personally investigate Huntington's trick". Meanwhile Huntington, Ames and Dodge joined forces to lobby against a bill introduced on December 9, 1867, by C. C. Washburn of Wisconsin, that would empower Congress to fix the freight and passenger rates on the Pacific Railroad.

In October 2013, they joined forces to lobby together to demand their recognition and voice in the peace process.

Benefiting from tax and jurisdiction loopholes, vulture funds create obscure societies or task forces to lobby for their interests in tribunals, legislative bodies and newspapers.

Conducting an assessment informed our understanding of the health staffing shortage, which plagues many African countries, and supported the efforts of the national MC task force to lobby for trained nurses to be authorized to perform VMMC procedures.

A worried White House -- from Obama on down -- was forced to aggressively lobby lawmakers on the Hill.

Forced to comply, they lobby their governments to move the goal posts.