How to pronounce “lobby”(verb) in English

lobbying Congress to avoid regulations that might have led us to understand better exactly the catastrophe they were

media lobbying communication strategies for several leading corporations in high-profile crisis situations before

And there they can lobby, but it's usually for business purposes.

And they are lobbying constantly for legislation.

They are lobbying for public policy that recognizes people with autism as whole people.

to blindness-- to lobbying for government to spend tax money on that sort of thing?

gas sector or the lobbying industry.

They've been lobbying the airline industry.

They are lobbying the government to prevent people from getting there DNA data.

It's corporations getting government contracts and lobbying for government surveillance.

But we're seeing industries lobbying for laws to make their business models more profitable.

Industries um are I I've been lobbying government in in this regard and there's quite a few open letters to the times

In other words, to lobby Lord Mansfield to find that it was OK for you to drown your slaves because this was going

There are friends of mine in the thorium movement who are lobbying hard to get something done.

criticize the judge, free to lobby the judge, free to write editorials, basically saying, you know, you better send this

largest oil companies teamed up with the largest banks and Enron to lobby the

or fish came from is being fought tooth and nail by basically lobbying groups that represent packagers and all these things.

low and they haven't had the sort of support they need and they are lobbying government very powerfully to to try to

Um and I um immediately started lobbying for uh spinning off

the first 6 months of the Bush Administration Enron spent 2.5 million lobbying the Bush Administration to

through the bush administration and really made it possible for the oil industry to stop lobbying and start legislating and I go through in the book

They have influence on members of Congress not just because they do lobbying, right, and because they make campaign contributions -- the

And he came over to talk to Lord Mansfield about the Zong case and wanting to really lobby Lord Mansfield to fight

We have a system where agribusiness is so large and powerful that they've been able to lobby so that state and federal laws are written in a way that

And there is no reason to go to Washington except if you want to lobby for tax breaks or you're a tourist to see

Whereas face to face, I can do something embarrassing but I can lobby later on for all of you not to tell anybody; but in a virtual world that doesn't work.

one week in the Zurich office, which I think would be much better than trying to lobby to actually get a job there and end up arriving and finding out that it's really not the best

one step further, and I went to Capitol Hill to lobby on behalf of the legislation that all televisions 13 inches or larger should be equipped with closed captioning technology.

But we're the smallest type of small businesses versus every Starbucks in New York City who has lobbying power and all this stuff.

should add a feature like that to it, you're doing lobbying.

Sort of reaching out to farmers on a local level or is that something that is lobbying territory?

but I believe it's not for environmentalists to pick the winners um what we should be doing is lobbying for the

Unlike other social justice movements, where those that are being oppressed had a voice in society to some degree-- they could protest, they could lobby, they could

Because the second you start working with people and saying this is how the law should work, it becomes lobbying.

Or do you blame the climbers who all want to go up and are lobbying to let as many people go up at once.

Oran: I mean, listen it's always going to be lobbying territory, because you got a lot of vested interest in agribusiness to have things the way they are.

The Alliance For Taxpayer Access played a major role in lobbying for a precursor policy, the NIH open access policy

Creative Commons which many of you will know but not necessarily for their scientific work have also done similarly lobbying work.

So, never, five years ago, even now, we're not saying, "We are going to lobby the Department of Education,

And then I asked him about, um, sitting on the Board of Freeport McMoRan and how Freeport McMoRan, the gold and copper mining company in, ah, in Indonesia, was lobbying