Sentence examples for lobby for help from inspiring English sources

So many state governors and their allies in the legislatures have coerced the retail lobby for help pushing (unsuccessfully) Congress to pass a law too unpopular for them to pass themselves.

The next day, a coalition of aging service advocates lead by mainstream organizations such as the Council of Senior Centers and Services (CSCS), Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies (FPWA), United Neighborhood House (UNH), CityMeals on Wheels, the Human Services Council, and UJA-Federation gathered at City Hall to lobby for help for people on the other end of the age spectrum, the elderly.

"The good news is that these children do have some access to the delivery system," said Dr. John Guggedahl, a local pediatrician who has lobbied for help from the state.

The Bush administration and the industries that have been lobbying for help contend that the lack of terrorism coverage has been a drag on the economy.

When people began dying, the choice was clear: you could be the Warsaw resistance or you could be the American Jewish Congress, beggars who stayed behind the scenes, lobbying for help that never came.

The Surface Transportation Policy Project, a nonprofit group in Washington that lobbies for help for mass transportation, calculated recently that the fatality rate per billion miles traveled by air carriers was 0.2.

Joyce is lobbying for help but has not publicly gone into specifics, instead saying this weekend is just an opportunity for the prime minister to see the effect of the drought on farmers.

Lobbying for Help Mr. Baumer said he had been too busy to try to get aid from the government, though he was hoping he could qualify for some assistance.

MANCHESTER, N.H. -- For weeks this winter, as Newt Gingrich's presidential hopes faltered under the weight of millions of dollars in attack ads paid for by backers of Mitt Romney, a small group of Gingrich supporters quietly lobbied for help from one of the richest men in America: Sheldon Adelson, a billionaire casino owner and Mr. Gingrich's longtime friend and patron.

As we watch the people of Libby quietly pursuing medical claims and lobbying for help with the cleanup, it becomes clear how they have also been betrayed by their own middle-American faith in institutions — including the Environmental Protection Agency, whose timidity and penny-pinching come in for criticism along with the economic authoritarianism practiced by Grace.

U.S. carmakers have lobbied for help in Washington, but so far have gotten nowhere.