Utilities lobbied intensively against that requirement.
Developers, sensing an opportunity, have lobbied intensively for deregulation, allowing them to volume-build houses more cheaply.
The Australian government had lobbied intensively behind the scenes, as well as issuing high-profile, emotive pleas.
On the sidelines the entire time, watching, biding his time and lobbying intensively was the media-heir-turned-casino-magnate billionaire James Packer.
Members of New York's Congressional delegation, who have lobbied intensively for federal funds for ground zero workers, want Dr. Howard to be reinstated.
Banks have lobbied intensively for rules that allowed them to risk large amounts of borrowed money, which provides them the opportunity to increase profits.
Representative Charles B. Rangel of New York, the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, was said to be lobbying intensively for any payment to be sent to all low-income Americans, including those who did not pay any taxes last year.
With development looming, local residents and groups including the Concerned Citizens of Montauk lobbied intensively for a public park, perhaps most visibly at a rally on the bluffs last October attended by some 200 people.
The proposal was dropped from the Queen's speech in 2013 when the government, which was thought to have been lobbied intensively by the tobacco industry, said it needed more time to consider the implications.
It was the organisation's first summit in 11 years, and the Kazakhs had lobbied intensively to make it happen.Suddenly there is praise for Kazakh diplomats, blessed with decent event-management skills and eager to enhance their country's standing.
