Sentence examples for forceful lobbying from inspiring English sources

It's the forceful lobbying by the president that triggers my curiosity.

The president's comments came as he sought to reassure members of the business community that he was not their adversary and to mend fences with their forceful lobbying advocate in Washington.

The struggle for the position of the US secretary of state intensified on Friday with forceful lobbying from one candidate and reported calls from the Trump presidential team for the other to apologise publicly for campaign slights in return for the job.

Achieving western safety standards at the 18 nuclear plants that have just been added to the EU will be a bonanza for western consultants, making them a forceful lobby for keeping plants alive.

But as in Britain, a forceful lobby maintains that the sex buyer law represents a "whorephobic" attack on women's self-determination, moreover one infinitely more threatening to their wellbeing, you gather, than the kindly traffickers – who make an annual £130m in the UK.

As a recommendation from the Sustainable Burbank Task Force to ban single-use plastic bags wends its way to the City Council, we hope the proposition gathers enough steam to overcome what could be forceful lobby from the business community.

Bishop was careful to maintain that she respected the outcome of Egypt's recent presidential election and the independence of the country's judiciary, but hit back at suggestions that the Australian government had not been forceful enough in lobbying for Greste to be released.

He says he hopes Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg "is as forceful and successful in lobbying Albany for the commuter tax as he was in lobbying for control of the Board of Education".

Lobbying is as forceful as in the corridors of Albany or Washington, with teachers' reputations analyzed and letters to principals in the mail.

Nevertheless, the bishops remain a forceful political lobby, powerful enough to nearly derail the president's health care overhaul two years ago over their concerns about financing for abortion.

Do the parties actually care about culture, or has this more to do with tactical neutralisation of the small, but incredibly forceful arts lobby?