"lobbyist" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- While lobbyists may spend freely on advocacy, they are limited in gifts to legislators and in their ability to contribute to campaigns.
- The state's 573 lobbyists are spending less money wining and dining legislators, election officials reported yesterday.
- One person, with just a few hard-working people in the field, managed to derail a bill that lobbyists spent millions of dollars on.
- In 1989 lobbyists spent $2.2m entertaining anonymous politicians.
- "Yes, we should continue to look at how firms and lobbyists spend money and what influence that may bring to bear."
- Nor is it surprising that lobbyists for the savings and loans are spending little of their diminished political capital to soften the Congressional stance.
- The lobbyists spent $5 million on the effort.
- Led by a group advocating a strong Social Security system, lobbyists spent more than $63.62 million trying to influence Congress in 1987.
- These lobbyists take a long term view, and will spend three or four years building up "relationships', gently influencing people, floating ideas.
- He said lobbyists for foreign governments had spent more than $100 million in an attempt to head off the legislation.
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