Sentence examples for group lobbying from inspiring English sources

It acts more like a pressure group lobbying for increases in its own powers.

The Observer passed Gordonstoun's lengthy manual of "Child Protection Policy and Procedures" to Mandate Now, a campaign group lobbying to make child-protection systems in British institutions effective.

Then, because Mrs. Robb works for a group lobbying against airplane noise, her telephone begins to ring, even though it is perhaps just 4 30 in the morning.

"The only group lobbying" for public broadcasting, Gingrich said, is "a small group of élitists who want to tax all the American people so they get to spend the money".

"There's no question that the debate on Syria is going to take precedence now," said Frank Sharry, executive director of America's Voice, a group lobbying for an immigration overhaul.

"It's totally wrong to take money from a pressure group lobbying your own department," said the Liberal Democrat peer Lord Oakeshott, a former special adviser to Roy Jenkins when he was a Labour home secretary in the 1970s.

And your group lobbied to change that? A. Yes, and we've had some progress.

For months, the historians' group lobbied the Park Service, and a meeting took place in May 2002.

The group lobbied administrators last year to add sexual orientation to its nondiscrimination clause.

The group lobbied against the law, saying companies — not the government — should have the right to choose their directors.

In the early 1990s, the group lobbied to create a Department of Defense breast cancer research program now funded at $150 million a year.