Sentence examples for lobby for one from inspiring English sources

With increasing volume, builders' groups complain that their interests are neglected and have started to lobby for one of their own on the commission.

Suppose a law firm gets hired to lobby for one outfit and to do legal work — not legislative work — for another.

It instead created an existential and somewhat touchy question: Should a team lobby for one of its own players to be charged with an error in order to benefit a teammate?

That is a view — and even a tone — that is eerily similar to the one adopted by Mr. Gingrich in recent days, as he has struggled to fend off charges that he was paid as much as $1.8 million to lobby for one of the very organizations that he and other candidates have vilified in recent months.

You can't apply for one or lobby for one.

Though much research shows that these issues affect corporate women more than men, the G.E. women said they believed that the problems required individual solutions and that they did not want to lobby for one-size-fits-all remedies.

Ivan Zamorano, 33, lobbied for one of the three over-23 slots on the Chilean Olympic soccer team.

A Japanese government delegation visiting Russia last week lobbied for one route, from Angarsk near Lake Baikal to the port of Nakhodka, near Vladivostok on the Sea of Japan.

They also began lobbying for one of their own.

But the acting buildings commissioner, Richard A. Visconti, has also been lobbying for one new power.

Scores of politicians, scientists and museums across the US lobbied for one of the shuttles to come to their state.