Sentence examples for started to lobby from inspiring English sources
Over the years, more and more started to lobby for licensing rules, often grandfathering in existing professionals while putting up high barriers to new competitors.
With increasing volume, builders' groups complain that their interests are neglected and have started to lobby for one of their own on the commission.
Almost immediately after the series was canceled in 2006 — a victim of overexposure and of a dreadful time slot opposite the No. 1 show on television, "American Idol" — the production company, Endemol, started to lobby NBC to bring it back.
Concerned about their privacy, people have started to lobby against online tracking of sales, which is a vital element of the internet's much-vaunted effectiveness.Some industries will cut ad-spending more deeply than others, says James Walker of Accenture Marketing Sciences.
With hindsight, however, it may simply have served to remind P&G's top people of someone they missed.Mr McDonald never seemed entirely comfortable in the leading role he accepted in 2009 at the firm where he had worked for three decades, especially as growth slowed and an activist hedge-fund run by Bill Ackman started to lobby for management change.
" Probably not unless we got real organized some years ago and started to lobby our government".
MPs throughout the county were starting to lobby for extra reserves to pay for the reconstruction of its infrastructure.
As the candidate started to leave the lobby, Ms. Reeves approached with a question of her own.
The union has started to organise demonstrations, lobby the labour ministry for more rights for domestic workers, and provided moral support for hundreds of women working as maids, cooks, cleaners and nannies, many far away from their homes and families.
Uber, Airbnb, Snapchat and others have started to monitor policy and lobby the federal government in the past few months to influence the law in their favor.
Almost immediately, the industrial meat lobby started to squeal.
