"leader" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Puerto Rican leaders had lobbied for such an opportunity repeatedly, in 1898, 1912, 1914, 1919, 1923, 1929, 1932, 1939, 1943, 1944, 1948, 1956, and 1960.
- Their leaders regularly lobby members of Congress behind closed doors and often meet privately with the President and his administration.
- For example, he said, the members support a constitutional amendment to balance the Federal budget, but the leaders lobbied against it.
- The military leaders have apparently lobbied hard for more money to modernize weapons systems.
- Catholic leaders, including Vatican officials, lobbied furiously against the bill, calling it an assault on the institution of marriage and a threat to social stability.
- But Democratic leaders were lobbying as if this were a beginning-and-end test.
- German political leaders lobbied for an overturn of the conviction and he was eventually released after serving four months.
- Democratic leaders had lobbied heavily against the aid proposal.
- "Military leaders lobbied for their new mission by planting leaks in the press."
- Many senior leaders often lobby directly or indirectly for their descendants and relatives to succeed them.
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