Sentence examples for lobby over the from inspiring English sources

It is not just ethnic or religious groups that lobby over the issue, either.

Long before an earthquake and tsunami triggered the Fukushima meltdown, critics questioned the influence of Japan's powerful nuclear lobby over the country's top universities.

It finds it useful to lobby over the Kosovo issue and for business.In the aftermath of the meeting, Serbian papers are reporting that two countries which had hitherto been understood to have recognised Kosovo, now say that actually, they didn't.

The 2002 European general food law (GFL) regulation, which sets the framework for food safety across Europe, has been hijacked by the big food lobby over the last dozen years.

Women's groups and gay activists are squaring up against opponents from the "family values" lobby over the contents of two very different television adverts that are due to air when the New Orleans Saints take on the Indianapolis Colts in next Sunday's finale of the American football season.

The question that Nancy Pelosi and celebrity advocates like Richard Gere ought to answer is this: Have the actions of the Western pro-Tibet lobby over the last 20 years brought a single benefit to the Tibetans who live inside Tibet, and if not, why continue with a failed strategy?

One major gas driller, Chesapeake Energy, has spent more than $1.6 million on lobbying over the past three years.

"The insurance and the drug companies have spent $1 billion in lobbying over the last 10 years," Mr. Obama said.

His firm, Hudson Clean Energy Partners, has spent $300,000 on lobbying over the last three years, enlisting the services of the firm Bluewater Strategies.

Zuffa, the U.F.C.'s parent company, has made nearly $270,000 in contributions to New York lawmakers over the past four years, and spent over $2 million on lobbying over the past five years.

JPMorgan's 12-person Washington office was spending more than $7.7 million on lobbying over the last five quarters, more than any other bank, according to the Center for Public Integrity.