Sentence examples for lobby something from inspiring English sources

She told MSNBC: "When 90% of Americans are in favour of background checks but Congress cannot do it because they're under the throes of the gun lobby, something really stinks in America".

As we sit in the lobby, something comes on the TV about the sequester, and spending cuts, and congressional gridlock.

Although Mr. Obama has helped make lobbying something of a dirty word in Washington — most firms refer to it by the euphemism of "government affairs" — that has not stopped a number of his fund-raisers from advertising their access to power brokers as they seek out clients.

With campaign and lobby reports, something like that is a simple electronic search; here, it's a mining expedition.

But the visitors clogging the lobby have something other than Viennese modernism on their minds.

Armed with gaudy thoughts and pictures, Clemens arrived at Yankees camp ready to lobby for something quite different.

But what would have been the point of flying all that way to lobby for something that had already been secured?

Julien added: "When you lobby for something, it's because you're looking for a bit of a break next game and that's what Randy's doing right now," Julien said of Carlyle's comments.

Or perhaps it makes perfect sense if the grocery lobby had something to do with it, or, as has been suggested, the F.T.C. is reacting to pressure from Congress.

Rachel Donadio, who is the Times's bureau chief in Rome, and who therefore probably has good contacts in the Vatican, told me that the Pope raised the issue of the lobby as something that would need to be addressed by a committee of cardinals that he appointed in April.

She said: "I wonder why you would put up candidates in a European election for a campaign which is about a national issue: the EU has no say on devolution for the UK, it is a matter for Westminster, so it's odd to try to send people to the European Parliament to lobby for something which has to be delivered by the UK government".