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  • Strong and ambitious, twenty-one or twenty-two years old, he lobbied hard to be allowed to work on the upper mountain as a climbing Sherpa.†   (source)
  • Belky got more money only because her aunt lobbied Lourdes for funds for Belky's school tuition.†   (source)
  • I have no interest in lobbying for legalized gambling in Colorado.†   (source)
  • Sol Draconi Septem-the northern reaches where Templar lobbying of the All Thing had stopped the colonial heating project in order to save the arctic wraiths.†   (source)
  • Booth was a creature of the city and its fancy hotel lobbies, saloons, oyster bars, and gaslit shadows.†   (source)
  • ON THE AFTERNOON OF MONDAY, February 24,1890, two thousand people gathered on the sidewalk and street outside the offices of the Chicago Tribune, as similar crowds collected at each of the city's twenty-eight other daily newspapers, and in hotel lobbies, in bars, and at the offices of Western Union and the Postal Telegraph Company.†   (source)
  • But still we wonder, Why are they meeting with that former-senator-turned-lobbyist?†   (source)
  • Again and again, efforts to prevent the sale of tainted ground beef have been thwarted by meat industry lobbyists and their allies in Congress.†   (source)
  • Had I been paying attention, I might have realized that Willow was lobbying for Adam to be able to visit me.†   (source)
  • In Rockford, Illinois, I debated a prominent school board member lobbying to ban the book to an overflow audience of mostly book supporters.†   (source)
  • For over a year, I had lobbied for it, and he had obstinately refused.†   (source)
  • We're not lobbies or elevators.†   (source)
  • I could see Dr. Crab in the darkness of the hallway, looking as stern as those old portraits you see in the lobbies of banks.†   (source)
  • He lobbied her over several days.†   (source)
  • It means that today, if Martin wants to implement some policy, he has to waste time on a lobbying operation to ensure support from at least 20 percent to 25 percent of the shareholders.†   (source)
  • They are also given the lie: that their memories were erased because of a freak accident, and that they were on the verge of lobbying the government for equality for GDs.†   (source)
  • We caucused among ourselves and lobbied all the residents of the house, and within weeks elected our own House Committee, defeating the upperclassmen.†   (source)
  • And together they'd lobbied other Liberian friends to come out for the team, only to have them bail out when they realized they'd have to get their hair cut.†   (source)
  • From there, she went to work for a public interest law firm called BPI, and while at BPI she became obsessed with the fact that Chicago's parks were crumbling and neglected, so she gathered together a motley collection of nature lovers, historians, civic activists, and housewives and founded a lobbying group called Friends of the Parks.†   (source)
  • We met them in apartments, parking lots, coffee shops, high-rise lobbies, and on street corners.†   (source)
  • The association does much of its work by filing suits or otherwise lobbying to change laws, but Mahdere acknowledges that change has to be felt in the culture as well as the legal code.†   (source)
  • Howard lobbied to get Smith named champion trainer of 1940, but Smith would never have the respect he deserved.†   (source)
  • Our elders had to do a lot of lobbying, at different levels of the commune leadership, but none of the leaders wanted to take responsibility.†   (source)
  • "What will you say to an American kid who does not get into a state university and whose family cannot afford a private college because that seat and that subsidy have been given to someone who is in the country illegally?" asks Ira Mehlman, the media director for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, an organization that lobbies against the DREAM Act.†   (source)
  • She'd been accepted to the programs at both MUSC in Charleston and Eastern Virginia in Norfolk, and her mother was lobbying fiercely for Charleston: "Your decision is simple, Gabrielle.†   (source)
  • And we do it without money, without support, without costumes, without newspapers, without senators, without lobbyists, and without illusions!†   (source)
  • No one else seemed to think the chicken was a little rubbery besides me, but then I'd lobbied hard for the beef and lost, so I might have just been sore.†   (source)
  • Or are you thinking that through lobbying and legislation, speechmaking and storytelling, we can extricate ourselves from our foolish ways?†   (source)
  • As the bus picks up speed again, she notices the passing landscape for the first time in half an hour, entering the Shaw neighborhood of D.C. Just a dozen blocks east of the lawyers and lobbyists on Connecticut Avenue and K Street, Shaw is a rutted, forgotten area of vacant lots, wandering prostitutes, and small, struggling shops tucked in the shadows of grimy row houses.†   (source)
  • The Emperor had lobbied hard for just this, so that his landlocked country could have the seaport of Massawa, not to mention the lovely city of Asmara.†   (source)
  • Maggie had lobbied for a face-to-face visit.†   (source)
  • Outside the Oval Office were dozens of people waiting to see President Eisenhower: Senators, congressmen, members of the Cabinet, leaders of foreign governments, unions, lobbyists, military commanders-most of whom fit into rigidly defined fifteen-minute segments of the White House schedule.†   (source)
  • Burton thinks that we're essentially an ultraconservative veterans' lobbying effort that grew out of the Vietnam disgrace-legally borderline for him, but then he has strong patriotic feelings.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • In 1996, Mrs. Dickinson, now a Florida homeschool lobbyist, wrote the legislation that allows homeschoolers to participate in extracurricular activities.†   (source)
  • The president is lobbying for an international nuclear test ban and characterizes himself as "President of generations unborn—and not just American generations."†   (source)
  • The ancient walls could not contain it, the sounds of cheering burst through to the lobbies, to the stairs, to the streets, to the boy who had walked those streets nineteen years ago.†   (source)
  • The official word was that, due to health concerns, he'd canceled three fund-raising dinners and an alternative-energy lobbying trip to Alaska.†   (source)
  • She'd lobbied for a dog when she was a girl, when they'd lived on Westfield Avenue in a single-family house with a backyard, close to her father's shop, Ammerman's Fine Food Emporium.†   (source)
  • They lobbied economically depressed counties, and economically depressed counties lobbied them.†   (source)
  • I've got well-paid attorneys and lobbyists and MBAs to play your games.†   (source)
  • And he was known as a hostile, silent man at the chutes, on the street, in the hotel lobbies.†   (source)
  • Mainly, though, it was because of the urgings of a wealthy little old lady who may someday leave the Institute a fortune: Mrs. Lydia Bames, former president of the Friends of the Dolphin Society, the citizen group that had lobbied for the initial dolphin legislation years ago.†   (source)
  • So in the days after King's assassination, greatly moved by the death of one I had admired so much, I lobbied for a course in black history in a school 90 percent white.†   (source)
  • In Washington I frequently find myself believing that forty or fifty letters, six visits from professional politicians and lobbyists, and three editorials in Massachusetts newspapers constitute public opinion on a given issue.†   (source)
  • She was candid with these lobbyists, avoiding anything like preaching or pandering.†   (source)
  • He asked everyone in the audience to give more money to the industry's key lobbying groups.†   (source)
  • I was a lobbyist, if you want to know the truth.†   (source)
  • One was a lawyer and lobbyist from the state capital of Columbus.†   (source)
  • Our intense lobbying efforts lasted over two weeks.†   (source)
  • He'd been lobbying to drop out of school altogether.†   (source)
  • And they've been lobbying Congress for forever for upgrades, I'll admit.†   (source)
  • Every hotel had filled to capacity, even beyond capacity, with some managers finding themselves compelled to install cots in lobbies and halls.†   (source)
  • Sol took Rachel with him as he traveled the Web-no longer caring about the newsteeps-petitioning the Shrike Church for pilgrimage rights, lobbying the Senate for a visa and access to forbidden areas on Hyperion, and visiting any research institute or clinic which might offer a cure.†   (source)
  • By January 1996, thanks in no small part to Fischer's concerted lobbying, the magazine made a firm commitment to send me to Everest-probably, Wetzler indicated, as a member of Fischer's expedition.†   (source)
  • Prison growth and the resulting "prison-industrial complex"—the business interests that capitalize on prison construction—made imprisonment so profitable that millions of dollars were spent lobbying state legislators to keep expanding the use of incarceration to respond to just about any problem.†   (source)
  • When he's done enough of this he leads me away again, to a puffy flowered sofa of the kind they once had in hotel lobbies; in this lobby, in fact, it's a floral design I remember, dark blue background, pink art nouveau flowers.†   (source)
  • Not only had he accepted the camerlegno's divine revelation of the antimatter's location, but he was lobbying for the destruction of St. Peter's Basilica-one of the greatest architectural feats on earth …. as well as all of the art inside.†   (source)
  • The Plaza in New York, the Ritz in Paris, Claridge's in London, the Metropol in Moscow—built within fifteen years of each other, they too were kindred spirits, the first hotels in their cities with central heating, with hot water and telephones in the rooms, with international newspapers in the lobbies, international cuisine in the restaurants, and American bars off the lobby.†   (source)
  • Santos posted her schedule each day, and by the second week, when she was meeting with a group of lobbyists wanting to drill in the Alaskan tundra, there were millions watching her.†   (source)
  • Its chief lobbyist, Bill Signer, told the Houston Chronicle there was nothing wrong with the use of federal subsidies to create low-paying, low-skilled, short-term jobs for the poor.†   (source)
  • Burnham and Millet had lobbied strongly for Henry Bacon of New York, and Burnham believed that his earlier talk to the Lincoln Commission had been persuasive.†   (source)
  • Even years after receiving the awards, as he lobbied Harvard to grant provisional admission to his son Daniel, whose own performance on the entry exams was far from stellar, Burnham wrote, "He needs to know that he is a winner, and, as soon as he does, he will show his real quality, as I have been able to do.†   (source)
  • Lobbyists from the oil, tire, and automobile industries, among others, had persuaded state and federal agencies to assume that fundamental expense.†   (source)
  • Eliminate lobbyists.†   (source)
  • In critiquing Garfield Park, he again took a moment to express his annoyance at Chicago's inability to select a site, a failure he found all the more exasperating given the elaborate boasts issued by the city's leading men back when they were lobbying Congress for the fair: "But considering what has been so strenuously urged upon the attention of the country in regard to the number and excellence of sites which Chicago has to offer; considering what advantages the Centennial Fair in…†   (source)
  • The fast food industry spends millions of dollars every year on lobbying and billions on mass marketing.†   (source)
  • The industry groups lobbied Congress to prevent any restrictions on children's ads and sued in federal court to block Pertschuk from participating in future FTC meetings on the subject.†   (source)
  • That year the fast food industry was lobbying Congress and the White House to pass new legislation — known as the "McDonald's bill" — that would allow employers to pay sixteen— and seventeen-year-old kids wages 20 percent lower than the minimum wage.†   (source)
  • Of the thousands upon thousands of public telephones in Kowloon — tucked away in crowded arcades and in recessed corners of darkened lobbies — Liang had chosen to use a pay phone on the inner wall of the walkway.†   (source)
  • Her mother took them into fine hotels and office buildings, marched them right in and showed them the moldings and engravings in the lobbies, the carved wood on elevator doors.†   (source)
  • After much discussion'and some helpful lobbying from Jamie'it was decided I could work for Harriet through the holidays, at which point we'd 'reconvene on the subject' and 'evaluate its impact on my grades and school performance.'†   (source)
  • Bishop had lobbied for economic democracy and introduced the country's first legislation for sexual equality.†   (source)
  • Mary lingered in the White House for several weeks after the shooting, then returned home to Illinois, where she spent her time answering the many letters of condolence she had received from around the world, and also lobbying Congress for a pension.†   (source)
  • She was only twenty-two, but she spent years lobbying county and state officials for funds, she held bake sales, and she went door-to-door to the local businesses, pleading with them until they gave in and wrote a check.†   (source)
  • So much so that more than once, I'd found myself pausing and taking a moment to look over whatever cause she was lobbying for.†   (source)
  • I was eleven years old when he walked out the door and I heard the story later, that he remembered everything, made his rounds of the barbershops and sweatshops, downtown, in the garment district, the street corners, the hotel lobbies, strictly small-time, and that he never had to commit a figure to paper because he was able to retain the details of every bet.†   (source)
  • Instead of drawing attention to the problem and lobbying for major programmes and changes in priorities, most obstetricians concentrate on subspecialties that put emphasis on high technology.†   (source)
  • Don't worry, I'm not lobbying for any special interests, I'm not after squeezing some particular directive out of Mr. Mouch, I'm not even after a diamond tiara from you.†   (source)
  • Then he saw in his mind's eye the masses of humanity meshing through the jammed, colourful, frequently filthy streets, and the crowded hotel lobbies and lounges with their softly lit chandeliers of gold filigree where the well-dressed remnants of the empire reluctantly mingled with the emerging Chinese entrepreneurs — the old crown and the new money had to find accommodation… Alleyways?†   (source)
  • By senior year Leah was lobbying for her to stay in D.C. "There's not one good reason for you to go back to that ridiculous town."†   (source)
  • I had lobbied hard to go in.†   (source)
  • In New York, where he had been lobbying Riddle in person, Vanderbilt had the proposal with Riddle's demands typed up as a formal contract and sent to Howard.†   (source)
  • The beltway around the city was jammed last night and this morning as the army of lawyers, lobbyists, journalists, and assorted bureaucrats escaped to cooler locales in the mountains of Virginia, the Maryland shore, or favored spots up the coastline to Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard.†   (source)
  • We highlight Camfed partly because we believe an international women's movement needs to focus less on holding conventions or lobbying for new laws, and more time in places like rural Zimbabwe, listening to communities and helping them get their girls into schools.†   (source)
  • When she looked around her once more, she was walking down a quiet street, past the glass doorways where lights were burning in the carpeted lobbies of luxurious buildings.†   (source)
  • Lin Muhan lobbied the four other vice ministers and signed the permission for me to go to America for one year.†   (source)
  • Peculiar-looking men loitered in the lobbies, restaurants and shops of the ground floor: their clothes were too new and too expensive, in unsuccessful imitation of the hotel's usual patrons, a camouflage impaired by the fact that the clothes were badly fitted to their wearers' husky figures and were further distorted by bulges in places where the garments of businessmen have no cause to bulge, but the garments of gunmen have.†   (source)
  • Charles thought we had a chance, though, because we had the George Bush connection, so we lobbied on the grounds of a possible gold medal at the Moscow International Ballet Competition.†   (source)
  • The fact that he alone disdained patronage, petty Congressional graft and favors from lobbyists may have disturbed the politicians, but not the people of Missouri!†   (source)
  • When rodeo folk gathered to swap stories, in hotel rooms, in hotel lobbies, or at the arena waiting for a program to start, the conversation always came around to saddle broncs, which always have been and always will be the heart of rodeo, So, when they gathered and talk began, during Tom Black's spectacular years, somebody would mention Steamboat or Midnight.†   (source)
  • The Seventeenth Amendment, ratified in 1913, reflected a far different attitude toward the "masses" of voters than the distrust with which they were regarded in 1787 by the creators of the Constitution—but it also reflected a general decline inthe respect for state legislatures, which had too often permitted powerful lobbyists and political machines to usurp their sacred right of selecting Senators.†   (source)
  • Hotel lobbies and dinner tables and club cars and street corners and bedrooms and filling stations.†   (source)
  • …required no painting or plastering; all pipes and wires were laid out in metal ducts at the edge of the floors, to be opened and replaced, when necessary, without costly demolition; the kitchens and bathrooms were prefabricated as complete units; the inner partitions were of light metal that could be folded into the walls to provide one large room or pulled out to divide it; there were few halls or lobbies to clean, a minimum of cost and labor required for the maintenance of the place.†   (source)
  • She held him, she led him by an invisible chain through Grand Hotel … lobbies and casinos and bars like a blind, dying lap dog; he wasn't much older than you are now.†   (source)
  • In passing through the lobbies of swank places, the Palmer Houses and portiered dining rooms, tassels, tapers, string ensembles, making the staid bouncety tram-tram of Vienna waltzes, Simon had absorbed this.†   (source)
  • Though he was so inconspicuous that he could come and go, not specially noticed around hotel lobbies and service passages, still when a matter came to a head he could act with authority and not be frightened by a situation he had created.†   (source)
  • You must remember it when you sit in hotel lobbies or lean over bars to talk to the bartender or stand in a dark street at night, in early March, and stare into a lighted window.†   (source)
  • A second resolution authorized the president of the S.A.R.E.B. to spend fifteen thousand dollars in lobbying for sane tax measures in the State Legislature.†   (source)
  • Then Sondelius, that crafty and often lying lobbyist, that unmoral soldier of the Lord, burst in and became dictator.†   (source)
  • Intimate to garages, where he had vague business conducted in undertones, to barber shops, to the lobbies of theatres—in such places, at any rate, Dick placed him.†   (source)
  • Pullmans were hauling them to and fro about the land, papers were greeting them with interesting mentions, the elegant lobbies of hotels and the glow of polished dining-rooms were keeping them close within the walled city.†   (source)
  • The leaders and organizers were maintained by the businessmen directly—aldermen and legislators by means of bribes, party officials out of the campaign funds, lobbyists and corporation lawyers in the form of salaries, contractors by means of jobs, labor union leaders by subsidies, and newspaper proprietors and editors by advertisements.†   (source)
  • Its rooms and hall and lobbies and restaurants were entirely too richly furnished, without the saving grace of either simplicity or necessity.†   (source)
  • He spoke of student days in Germany, of lobbying for single tax in Washington, of international labor conferences.†   (source)
  • He sat at a marquetry table, in a room littered with crumpled paper and, all day long, town-boosters and lobbyists and orators who wished to lead debates came and whispered to him, whereupon he looked vague, and said rapidly, "Yes, yes, that's a fine idea; we'll do that," and instantly forgot all about it, lighted a cigar and forgot that too, while the telephone rang mercilessly and about him men kept beseeching, "Say, Mr. Chairman—say, Mr. Chairman!" without penetrating his exhausted…†   (source)
  • We have a right, indeed we have a duty toward our fair city, to announce broadcast the facts about our high schools, characterized by their complete plants and the finest school-ventilating systems in the country, bar none; our magnificent new hotels and banks and the paintings and carved marble in their lobbies; and the Second National Tower, the second highest business building in any inland city in the entire country.†   (source)
  • I obeyed, so far as to quit the chamber; when, ignorant where the narrow lobbies led, I stood still, and was witness, involuntarily, to a piece of superstition on the part of my landlord which belied, oddly, his apparent sense.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • The performance over, the young fellows lounged about the lobbies, and we saw the society take its departure.†   (source)
  • After which the curtain again fell, and the spectators poured forth from the theatre into the lobbies and salon.†   (source)
  • The curtain fell almost immediately after the entrance of Madame Danglars into her box, the band quitted the orchestra for the accustomed half-hour's interval allowed between the acts, and the audience were left at liberty to promenade the salon or lobbies, or to pay and receive visits in their respective boxes.†   (source)
  • In 1829 there were /lobby-agents/ at Albany, and they soon became /lobbyists/; in 1832 /lobbying/ had already extended to Washington.†   (source)
  • In 1829 there were /lobby-agents/ at Albany, and they soon became /lobbyists/; in 1832 /lobbying/ had already extended to Washington.†   (source)
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