Sentence examples for lobbyist efforts from inspiring English sources

The crazy part of this is that many of these lobbyist efforts also include funding the very cancer treatment organizations that are far wealthier than our grassroots efforts to prevent cancer.

Over the next few years, many Democrats lined up to urge the administration to rethink or delay the low-profile rule, pressure that assisted bank lobbyists' efforts to eliminate it altogether.

Arab states as a group are the biggest lobbyists against efforts to reduce oil and fuel subsidies.

Now Democrats are calling for more information about the lobbyist's effort in planning the Morocco trip.

"But now we know the real story--a tangled web of public officials, polluter lobbyists, and efforts to gut the Clean Air Act".

"Casino Jack" (Dec. 17), the last film by the late George Hickenlooper (who died in October), stars Kevin Spacey as Jack Abramoff, the lobbyist whose political efforts veered into crime.

In an attempt to deflect criticism over the law, Sink and Democrats painted Jolly as a Washington lobbyist who backs efforts to privatize Social Security and gut Medicare.

But Vincent also sought to enlist the help of a Washington insider or lobbyist if his efforts were to have any chance of success.

Some lobbyists wonder whether legal lobbying efforts will now be tarred as illegal.

But a cabal of mining outfits and their lobbyists blocked his efforts.

Norwegian Air Shuttle, a low-cost carrier, has been hampered by American regulators, at the urging of industry lobbyists, in its efforts to expand services across the Atlantic.