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lobby

[lob-ee] / ˈlɒb i /




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If there is an industry for it, there will be a lobby group representing its interests in Brussels, home to the European Union's institutions.

From Barron's Sep. 11, 2026

Cregg on Big Block of Cheese Day to lobby for a change to the map, blowing her mind in the process by literally turning her world upside down.

From Salon Sep. 10, 2026

On 9/11, he was in the North Tower lobby, about to head up to work, when he decided to stop at an optometrist’s shop in the street-level concourse to get his reading glasses fixed.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

And if you detour to the second-floor library, you’ll get the best view of a banana-yellow starfighter from “The Phantom Menace” that dangles over the lobby with R2-D2 perched in the tandem seat.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 8, 2026

We disembarked at each floor but went no farther than the elevator lobby.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Joint lead bookrunner and stabilization agent Morgan Stanley adorned its lobbies, elevator banks and turnstiles with SpaceX logos and pictures of Mars.

From MarketWatch Aug. 31, 2026

Fox founder lobbies Trump to preserve air rights for broadcasters as powerful streamers encroach on their turf.

From The Wall Street Journal May 8, 2026

Universities UK, which lobbies on behalf of more than 140 universities, has been approached for comment.

From BBC Feb. 16, 2026

In the process, the LDP attracted all kinds of special interests, including farming and business lobbies, as well as religious groups, and multiple cases of corruption followed.

From Barron's Feb. 6, 2026

Little countries no one ever heard of have their Washington lobbies, representing their special interests.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

United Farmworkers lobbied Congress to end the bracero program, arguing that the program exploited workers.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 24, 2026

He once locked the Liberal Democrat chief whip in his office, in a bid to prevent him from being lobbied by rival campaigners.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

Back in 2021, activists had successfully lobbied the state of New Jersey to prohibit municipal and county governments as well as private facilities from entering into new contracts with ICE to house immigration detainees.

From Salon Aug. 6, 2026

Mr. Sabet also notes that Howard Kessler, a Palm Beach billionaire and longtime friend of Mr. Trump, lobbied for the Schedule III reclassification and CBD Medicare coverage.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

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.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

The energy and chemical sectors also devote substantial sums to lobbying in Brussels, respectively spending 52 million euros and 46.5 million euros annually, the two campaign groups' report said.

From Barron's Sep. 11, 2026

Fast-food businesses are lobbying fiercely against the proposal.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 8, 2026

Prosecutors said Wong and other activists had been lobbying on social media to get attention and support from abroad.

From Barron's Sep. 2, 2026

It reinstated the 9% rate on food service and hot takeaways in July after an intensive industry lobbying campaign.

From BBC Sep. 2, 2026

However, strategies have evolved, including lobbying efforts in Washington, D.C., as the global economic crisis has diminished public funding.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French




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