Sentence examples for try and lobby from inspiring English sources

"These firms might try and lobby us to do things but that does not mean that we do them," one No 10 source said.

Participants admitted they used the private meeting in March to try and lobby Obama to do more to earn their award.

Blick says that those with big business interests have got nowhere to turn: "All businesses can do is try and lobby the Conservative party to shift their position.

"Did Doug advocate and try to lobby in a couple of instances?" Mr. Lopez asked.

I understand the machinations organizations like the Human Rights Campaign must go through as they try to lobby Congress and at the same time try to raise the money to do so from both Republicans and Democrats.

Teams sometimes try to lobby for themselves and in some companies, people pull a lot of stunts to get more attention.

Mr. Bloomberg has used his position and his personal wealth — he has donated millions to a "super PAC" — to try and counter the influential gun lobby.

This is really about a Conservative attempt and a Conservative lobby to try and destabilise UKIP and to use one or two people within who are disaffected".

She told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "It's just politically convenient, in a speech to the gun rights lobby, to try and make those comparisons and they are totally spurious.

Environmental groups have long called such rebranding a bait-and-switch by the coal lobby to try and revive an industry dying not due to regulation, but rather the rapidly falling cost of cleaner energy sources.

"I guess I can understand why the oil lobby would try and kill it, but why GM?" "I don't know," he said, "but they are". When GM first launched the EV1, it was to mixed reviews.