Sentence examples for lobby challenges from inspiring English sources

Pastor Roger W. Brumbalow's mission statement, displayed prominently in the lobby, challenges the congregation "to be a multiracial, multicultural maturing body of believers," and, indeed, the church is blended in almost every way.

Citing a lawsuit filed by the Christian owner of crafts retailer Hobby Lobby challenging the Affordable Care Act's employee contraception mandate, Jindal argued that "the instant you start a business, you lose" your First Amendment rights.

The House passed a transportation budget before the auto industry could mount a lobbying challenge to the rollover ratings plans, which were announced by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on May 25.

This was the first time in decades that the lobby had challenged the sitting U.S. President so overtly.

A spokeswoman for Oil & Gas UK, the North Sea industry lobby group, challenged the ONS comments, citing government figures that showed a 26% increase in North Sea oil output between October and November.

To protect its clout in the political arena, the gun lobby is challenging legislation needed to contain an expected flood of unregulated attack ads in this year's federal elections.

Despite the power of the corporations that were set to gain massively from the deals, the grassroots movement of people from across the EU, US and Canada have used their democratic rights to protest and to lobby to challenge their might.

The Toronto-based lawyer and York University prof has lobbied legal challenges over banned drug literature (which was successful) and drug paraphernalia e.g. bongs, rollies, vaporizers (which was unsuccessful, but everyone leaves head shops alone anyway).

Proponents of Hobby Lobby's challenge to the federal contraceptive coverage requirement and this new spate of anti-gay state legislation have argued that they are simply attempting to preserve the constitutional guarantee of the free exercise of religion, but the reality is that right to the free exercise of religion has never been a right that secular businesses claimed to possess.

Conservative clerics and merchants form a hard-to-challenge lobby.

For curators at the museum, the lobby is a challenge.