Sentence examples for lobbied like from inspiring English sources

The EU is being lobbied like never before on this one.

In a presidential race in which the governing party is considered vulnerable for the first time in 71 years, expatriates have been courted and lobbied like never before.

Pamela Stuart, a Washington lawyer who has worked on pardons, said that the power to grant pardons should be more sacred because it's a safety valve "for when there is a miscarriage of justice; it's not something that should be lobbied like a tax bill".

If these bankers hadn't gambled with our savings, bought up toxic mortgages, and lobbied like hell for deregulation, 4.7 million people would still be at work.

They are still too big to fail and are lobbying like crazy right now for the repeal of quite timid regulations passed.

And that's a question C4 is asking itself all over again, while Lord Burns continues to lobby like mad in the House of Lords to protect its independence.

The city clerk's annual report offers only a glimpse of actual lobbying efforts in the city, as many common forms of lobbying, like public relations or legal representation, are not included.

Gisela Stuart – a Labour leaver, whose German accent makes her an even rarer breed – said small businesses should vote out because they lacked the resources to lobby like the corporates did.

Part of the reason for this success was Obama and the White House doing a full-court press on Congress, lobbying like mad.

The gun lobby likes to say guns don't kill people, people do.

"It's really a red herring that the abortion lobby likes to bring up by conflating abortion and birth control," she said when pressed on PBS last year.