Sentence examples for interest lobby from inspiring English sources

Some educators said yesterday that in the context of dire budget cuts, charter schools serve such a tiny portion of the city's schoolchildren as to constitute a special interest lobby.

"No wonder Halvorson received an A+ rating from the NRA, the special interest lobby against effective background checks.

It is one thing to pander to an intimidating special interest lobby; it is quite another to compromise national security by doing so.

But they have made a difference -- by exemplifying the very idea of the "citizen activist" taking on an intimidating special interest lobby.

Every child has a right to live and to dream and to strive for a future that is not destroyed in a second because we cowered before a special interest lobby and refused to protect them.

Do we let the cage fight nature of special interest lobby versus public crusade distract from the fact that banks are necessary to fund construction, regular people will need pay day loans, energy must flow through the grid, goods must show up where people can get them, employers must see their way clear to hire with pay as an issue and people will get sick and need insurance to pay?

Special interest lobbying has a lot to answer for.

Too often that coherence is lost under the weight of special interest lobbying or narrow definitions of national interest.

But it isn't the ultimate symbol of special interest lobbying and out-of-touch political elites.

Furthermore, Mr. McCain is a vocal opponent of special interest lobbying, but it seems he has few problems with lobbyists themselves.

The changes would have to be approved or rejected as a whole by Congress, making it hard for narrow- interest lobbies to bend lawmakers to their will.