Sentence examples for lobby to begin from inspiring English sources

If his progression continues during a batting practice session Saturday in Anaheim, Hughes said he would lobby to begin a minor league rehabilitation assignment..

That premonition seemed doubly likely when distributors quickly huddled in the theater lobby to begin bidding for rights to the film, resulting in Fox Searchlight's record-setting $17.5 million acquisition.

Hobby Lobby has promised to begin to sell Jewish holiday items in areas near large Jewish populations.

Rickerson had lobbied the Sequim School District to begin such a program.

In the spring of 2006, preservation groups began lobbying the Landmarks Preservation Commission to begin the process of designating the building a landmark.

The European Union's trade commissioner, Pascal Lamy, has been quietly lobbying member-states to begin lifting import quotas for items like beef, poultry and dairy products.

By E. B. White The New Yorker, November 16, 1929 P. 24 Dialogue between couple in theatre lobby waiting for show to begin.

If the promises made by geoengineering erode the political incentives requiring polluters to cut their emissions, will we see fossil fuel corporations begin lobbying to get political endorsement for climate modification?

Paul called on two N.W.P. members from Virginia, Nina Avery and Butler Franklin, to begin lobbying.

He now plans to begin lobbying the Chilean government, which must send a formal request to the Obama administration before the special status can be considered.

Led by David Rockefeller, the former chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank, and Jerry Speyer, chief executive of Tishman Speyer Properties, about 20 corporate executives plan to begin lobbying next month in Albany for a more businesslike structure with mayoral control for the city's schools.