Sentence examples for lobby to replace from inspiring English sources

We have a moral duty to assess threats as clearly and rationally as we can, so that we do not lobby to replace a lesser threat with a greater one.

(It was telling when New York reported that, "according to a high-level source," Brian Williams had lobbied to replace David Letterman).

Domenech was lobbied to replace Gourcuff by the more defensive-minded Diaby on the right side of midfield.

He publicly lobbied to replace Willie Randolph as the Mets' manager last season while Randolph still had the job.

Platini, who is lobbying to replace Blatter when he stands down in February, was questioned "as a person asked to provide information" in connection with claims that he received a "disloyal payment" from the Fifa president.

No group of dissatisfied consumers is lobbying to replace cards with mobile phones, so transactional innovations such as mobile wallets do not really create disruption.

But Carney isn't one of them, according to Rogin, who wrote that the press secretary is "rumored to be lobbying to replace former Ambassador Mike McFaul as the next U.S. Ambassador to Moscow".

He freely admits that the ultimate aim of the bike lobby is to replace cars with bikes and other more "healthy, efficient, and effective" modes of transportation.

A13 EDUCATION Campus Leaders Protest Board Angered by the $3.7 million severance package that American University's board of trustees awarded to Benjamin Ladner, the departing president, campus leaders called for fellow students to lobby Congress to replace the board.

Described by friends as pragmatically low-key and apolitical, Mr. Kincannon is expected to lobby Congress to replace the decennial long-form census questionaire with an ongoing survey that supporters say will collect important demographic and socio-economic data in a more timely way for program and planning purposes.

Mellon had lobbied strenuously to replace Choo on stage at the televised event.