Sentence examples for lobby causes from inspiring English sources

The day reached its point of high comedy when Senator Lindsey Graham began interrogating Hagel on whether he believes – as he allegedly said several years ago – that the so-called "Jewish lobby" causes US senators to occasionally do dumb things that harm US foreign policy.

Attempting to generate a clear environmental image of the lobby, causing some stress and confusion.

And once corporate America fled the gun lobby cause, ALEC jettisoned the NRA in order to save its financial lifeblood, and terminated its "Public Safety and Elections" task force.

(If you'll recall, heavy N.R.A. lobbying caused research funding to dry up in 1996, and the Centers for Disease Control has reportedly cut firearms safety research by 96 percent since then).

And though the president has left the issue in suspense, the effect of his delay (as witness alarmist columns sympathetic to Hagel by Steve Clemons in The Huffington Post, John Judis in The New Republic, and Thomas Friedman in The New York Times) has been to shrink the prestige of the anti-Hagel campaign and identify it almost exclusively as a neoconservative and Israel-lobby cause.

The unusually intense lobbying campaign has caused irritation among some European officials who have been caught up in what amounts to a proxy struggle among American interests, with privacy advocates fighting industry groups as various U.S. government entities weigh in.

Six clients paid B&D Consulting $380,000 for Hurlbut to lobby their causes.

They decided to make these contributions through a limited liability company (LLC) to have greater flexibility to make grants, lobby for causes, and invest in promising innovative ideas.

The Senate ethics committee turned its attention to the Lincoln case after the public affairs lobby Common Cause called for an investigation into whether the lawmakers violated Senate rules guiding "dispensing of special favors" by members.

Young writers and human-rights activists who have lobbied for causes such as Iraqi refugees have come to the fore.

Led by Boeing, Microsoft and Caterpillar, that group has banded together as the Coalition for U.S.-Based Employment and has hired the Alexander Strategy Group to lobby its cause.