Sentence examples for local lobby from inspiring English sources

Fighting off a proposed housing and retail developments, The Dreamland Trust, a local lobby group set up to get the park reopened, secured funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Government's SeaChange Scheme.

National and local lobby groups for the restaurant industry say most tipped workers earn well above the minimum wage and that the added costs of an hourly base wage would drive up prices and cut into already thin profit margins.

The indictments had been sought by a local lobby group for people with Down's syndrome, and the four Google executives were sent for trial before a Milan judge, charged with libel.

All sorts of local lobby groups battled plans for separated cycle lanes, most famously over one eventually built outside Brooklyn's Prospect Park, a route once described as "the most controversial slab of cement outside the Gaza Strip".

Still, twenty-one remains the traditional age of enfranchisement in most Western democracies, including forty-six of the United States….The local lobby for the eighteen-year-old vote is a polypartisan student group known as CALVA — Consolidated Association to Lower the Voting Age….

In Bath, Eric Parry's extension of the Holburne Museum is likely to be a gem – one that was nearly derailed by a local lobby of nimbys who seemed to want to see the museum close rather than evolve into the 21st century.

When transposing EU directives into national laws, local lobbies will often push for some ambiguous wording to be used.

That the "local lobbying" industry has got away with such practices for so long is no surprise.

This unsung success story, in the teeth of political opposition from corrupt local lobbies, deserves careful study elsewhere (not least in Greece).

The NRA and its vast network of local affiliates achieve their success through a mix of skilled local lobbying and voter mobilization.

The Tea Party movement is diverse, so it's as yet unknown whether these groups were primarily electioneering or doing local lobbying and organizing.