Sentence examples for push lobbying from inspiring English sources

To oversee the consortium's push, lobbying records show, the banks hired a longtime Washington power broker who previously helped fend off derivatives regulation: Edward J. Rosen, a partner at the law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton.

Frank holds up a minor Indiana congressman, David McIntosh, who pushed lobbying reforms before quitting government to become a lobbyist, as an example of conservative hypocrisy.

We should stiffen the spines of our politicians, and push lobby groups like A.A.R.P. to climb out of the bunker and lead.

There are other factors pushing lobbying activity into the shadows.

They get pushed by lobbying groups.

Sylvia Morrison, a wealthy resident of Pacific Palisades, pushed back, lobbying instead for a protected park, to be called Whitestone National Park.

But conservative religious and political groups immediately pushed back, lobbying for the law to be restored; in 2013 the Supreme Court unexpectedly overturned the earlier judgment.

The biggest thrust of Google's lobbying push involves antitrust, patents, copyright, trade and China.

"We worked enormously hard to cajole, push and lobby A.&P. that this was the right thing to do," Mr. Spitzer said.

They make no mention of the organisation's push to lobby governments over gun laws, which emerged in a report by the ABC's Four Corners on Monday night.

The lobbying push in New York follows similar efforts by the energy industry to influence lawmakers and regulators in Washington and in other parts of the country that are rich in shale formations.