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someone who is paid to attempt to influence legislation through persuasion of legislators- Howard lobbied to get Smith named champion trainer of 1940, but Smith would never have the respect he deserved.Laura Hillenbrand -- Seabiscuit
- Hotel lobbies and dinner tables and club cars and street corners and bedrooms and filling stations.Robert Penn Warren -- All the King's Men
- The performance over, the young fellows lounged about the lobbies, and we saw the society take its departure.William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
- Then Sondelius, that crafty and often lying lobbyist, that unmoral soldier of the Lord, burst in and became dictator.Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith
- Had I been paying attention, I might have realized that Willow was lobbying for Adam to be able to visit me.Gayle Forman -- If I Stay
- Or are you thinking that through lobbying and legislation, speechmaking and storytelling, we can extricate ourselves from our foolish ways?Joy Kogawa -- Obasan
- In a letter to Madison, Jefferson called it "insane" and commenced lobbying for ways to delay action and allow time for Bonaparte to invade Britain.David McCullough -- John Adams
- Belky got more money only because her aunt lobbied Lourdes for funds for Belky's school tuition.Sonia Nazario -- Enrique's Journey
- And he was known as a hostile, silent man at the chutes, on the street, in the hotel lobbies.Hal Borland -- When the Legends Die
- They lobbied economically depressed counties, and economically depressed counties lobbied them.Scott Pratt -- An Innocent Client
- The official word was that, due to health concerns, he'd canceled three fund-raising dinners and an alternative-energy lobbying trip to Alaska.Ted Dekker -- Red: The Heroic Rescue
- She breathed in with all her might the dusty smell of the lobbies, and when she was seated in her box she bent forward with the air of a duchess.Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
- He lobbied her over several days.Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains
- We met them in apartments, parking lots, coffee shops, high-rise lobbies, and on street corners.Jack Gantos -- Hole in My Life
- After which the curtain again fell, and the spectators poured forth from the theatre into the lobbies and salon.Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
- And we do it without money, without support, without costumes, without newspapers, without senators, without lobbyists, and without illusions!Toni Morrison -- Song of Solomon
- But still we wonder, Why are they meeting with that former-senator-turned-lobbyist?Dave Eggers -- The Circle
- Maggie had lobbied for a face-to-face visit.Jodi Picoult -- Change of Heart
- I've got well-paid attorneys and lobbyists and MBAs to play your games.John Ringo -- Live Free or Die
- I was a lobbyist, if you want to know the truth.Nicholas Sparks -- The Best of Me