Sentence examples for lobbied first from inspiring English sources

Mr. Schroder lobbied first for one German candidate, Caio Koch-whoer, was was vetoed by President Clinton, then swung his weight behind Mr. Kohler.

Hagerman's parents and friends of the family channeled their grief into lobbying: first for stricter laws regulating sex offenders, then for ways of recovering abducted children more quickly through media and law-enforcement coöperation.

A campaign supported by the official Rangers fans board is to lobby First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to make the use of the word 'hun' illegal following the online abuse of pop singer and Rangers fan Amy Macdonald, with an internet petition saying it is a term of "religious hatred, a derogatory and sectarian term for a Protestant".

On the evening I saw the show, we were asked to wait in the lobby first, and then cheer the performers on following their entrance.

page A18 GUN LOBBY FIRST The House stampeded past serious public-safety concerns and the democratic rights of residents of the District of Columbia on Wednesday to approve a bill that would gut sensible gun controls in the nation's capital.

The tour meets in the Rubin Lobby, first floor at 6 p.m., Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, at Prospect Park, Brooklyn, (718) 638-5000, brooklynmuseum.org; free with admission; reservations: [email protected]; $12, $8 for students and 62+, free for children under 12 accompanied by an adult.

AARP spent $9.7 million on lobbying during first six months of this year, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

With a playbook crafted nearly 20 years ago, the tobacco firms use direct lobbying, third-party allies and "grassroots" advocacy campaigns to spread model legislation and mobilize smokers against proposed regulations and tax hikes across the country.

He needs to show that he understands, first, why he is factually wrong to describe a "Jewish lobby"; second, he needs to show greater sensitivity to the American Jewish community because he understands that expression evokes anti-Semitism through the ages.

Maury also wrote the first textbook of modern oceanography in 1853, Physical Oceanography of the Sea, and lobbied for the first transatlantic cable.

The union first lobbied unsuccessfully against Congressional action liberalizing trade with China.