Sentence examples for lobby for things from inspiring English sources

"When we go in and lobby for things like Nafta, or like W.T.O.

Gesturing to his parents, Mr. Tang said that the older generation of Singaporeans was reluctant to stand up to the government but that he and his peers were increasingly willing to lobby for things they hold dear.

REVIEWING THE IDEAS Two common complaints from employees, whenever the idea of a suggestion box is raised, are that the people reviewing the ideas will be too high up in the organization to see what is needed out in the field and that some who make suggestions will lobby for things that benefit only their department (or them).

"One day somebody from one of the parties said to me 'Why don't you think of running?' By then I had lobbied for things at Trent and had lobbied for schools and just kind of got sucked into it".

When customers pay fees for banks and financial services firms, a large portion of that money goes into lobbying for things that are beneficial to the financial services community and few other people… or the country at large.

That's not to say that we shouldn't lobby hard for things that we believe in.

The airlines are lobbying for these things too, but they would still like to cut the cost of the middlemen.

In its slimmed-down form, the association focuses primarily on lobbying in Washington for things like changing tax laws to the industry's advantage.

Moreover, foreign banks accustomed to sound regulation, prudent oversight and honest accounting in their home countries may lobby for the same things abroad.The four authors also think that cosmopolitan capitalists can police companies and officials better than locals can.

By contrast, Chicago forbids food trucks from operating within 200 feet of a bricks-and-mortar restaurant, and requires them to have a GPS to ensure compliance, which makes life very hard for them in the downtown business district.Businesses lobby for lots of things they should not have: handouts from the taxpayer, handicaps imposed on their rivals.

We know that the pot lobby will work hard for things like not only full-blown legalization in several more states next year, but also things like on-site pot smoking "bars" (they are really proposing these in Alaska and Colorado as we speak) and an expansion of pot edibles.