"lobby" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The small but growing satellite dish industry has spent three years lobbying lawmakers to change a law that prevents them from offering subscribers local programming.
- They have lobbied lawmakers to stop the proposal.
- During the legislative session in Albany, he turned over part of his office to loft tenants who were lobbying other lawmakers.
- The plan, first used by the Tennessee territory in 1796, creates the position of two senators and a congressman to lobby national lawmakers for statehood.
- The couple became high-profile advocates for the proposal - speaking emotionally at news conferences, issuing statements with the Governor and lobbying lawmakers.
- Lobbying lawmakers to pass legislation addressing child abuse, rape, domestic violence and child support.
- Mrs. Whitman has declined to personally lobby lawmakers on this issue, saying each legislator must make up his or her own mind.
- Arts groups around the state were scrambling last week to lobby lawmakers and call on wealthy patrons to press for restoring $3.27 million in proposed cuts.
- And antismoking groups are lobbying lawmakers to spend significant amounts.
- Nothing prohibits an organization or private company, even those that receive benefits, from lobbying lawmakers in the Capitol.
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