Sentence examples for lobbied as from inspiring English sources

Your brief would be to see how far you can get away with it while the corporate affairs team lobbied as aggressively as they could to ease the remit as far as possible.

Commission officials confirm that all 20 commissioners were personally lobbied, as were their officials further down the food chain.

For the first time the NY delegation in the House lobbied as a body and voted unananimously for the controversial bill providing federal aid to NYC.

Some close to Tony Blair are already urging a more aggressive defence of what he and New Labour stood for, a view characterised by one of those lobbied as "these wimps, they're not doing anything".

The hope is that the rail manifesto will be completed by the summer so that ministers can be lobbied as they make their minds up about the new rail franchises and future spending commitments.

Qualifying veterans' organizations are permitted to lobby as much as they want in furtherance of their exempt purposes.

How long before churches have to shell out for lobbying as well, to get their share of the increased pie?

Meanwhile, recently passed Congressional ethics rules restrict the ability of departing Congressional staff members to lobby as well.

Portman's chief of staff Robert Lehman was registered to lobby as recently as this year.

In the legislating, lobbying as well as in the campaigns themselves, the Money will be the Message.

But Bryner said that congressional gridlock was likely a key reason for the decline in lobbying as well.