Sentence examples for sort of lobby from inspiring English sources

It was a small upstairs room in TriBeCa, capacity around 80, doubling as a living space for its proprietor, Jim Staley; before the show started, you'd talk to friends in a sort of lobby, which was his kitchen.

At best, this is a contribution to over-medicalisation; at worst, this can seem like the behaviour of a sort of lobby group for the device and pharmaceutical industry.

To stem the jangle of ringing cellphones, Cingular Wireless is erecting kiosks at 100 Loews movie theaters as a sort of lobby-based cellphone purgatory where users will be encouraged to place and receive any calls.

Many times in the past, that sort of lobbying worked and China chose to ignore the North's provocations.

There is nothing unusual about this sort of lobbying: after all, who doesn't love a nice juicy subsidy?

Yet unlike Wall Street, which has long mixed that sort of lobbying with supplying leaders to some of the highest offices in the land and feeding in policy advice, tech tycoons have remained largely aloof from the broader affairs of the nation's capital.Steve Jobs was a classic example of this disdain.

And she sort of lobbied for me, I think.

George Osborne will listen to all sorts of lobby groups ahead of budget day - pensioners, bankers, business groups, trade unions, pressure groups of all kinds.

Through the last set of doors, there's a sort of neglected lobby, with a pole-dancer's podium.

By contrast, the UK economy is bounding along at around 3 per cent a year, and the new revisions to our GDP figures confirm that the expansion may be better balanced than the "wrong sort of growth" lobby feared.

She is a member of the European Council on foreign relations – its parent group, the council on foreign relations, is a sort of über lobby group, a couple of rungs down from Bilderberg, but still hugely powerful.