Sentence examples for over lobby from inspiring English sources

He owed his unexpected victory to one masterful, notes-free speech broadcast live to the nation, not an assiduous campaign to slowly win over Lobby scribblers.Despite his social ties with Rebekah Brooks, Mr Cameron has never actually been a very keen schmoozer of newspaper journalists.

About 75 people carrying signs, banging drums and chanting "Stop the evictions, stop the greed" took over the lobby of the building in San Francisco's Soma district.

One of the rally's sponsors, National People's Action, a coalition of community groups, dispatched more than 300 members to take over the lobby of the JPMorgan Chase headquarters at 270 Park Avenue at lunchtime.

More than 200 guests helped take over The Lobby Bar in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood Friday night, some of them traveling all the way from Eatonville, Washington.

In 1998 he was embroiled in controversy over lobbying.

It's not exactly what we would want, national exposure over lobbying scams.

The questions raised by the Fox affair over lobbying ministers recall the early scrapes Blair got into with Bernie Ecclestone and Lakshmi Mittal.

Speaking to Jane Garvey on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour, Cameron denied that the initiative was timed to deflect criticism over lobbying by his election strategist Lynton Crosby.

This year's summit coincides in the UK with the outbreak of a fresh scandal over lobbying and calls for a statutory register of lobbyists.

"It is time for policymakers to strengthen accountability over lobbying, as a matter of priority, to help rebuild trust in public institutions, the process of government and the fairness of policymaking," the report concludes.

The clincher was the resignation in February of his son, Ian junior, from his ministerial office after being pilloried for over-enthusiastic lobbying on behalf of a local businessman and supporter.