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    1. After almost a year together, all the boys lobbied hard for us to get a dog


    2. The US military carried out most of these attacks, and often lobbied for their use and against their use coming to an end


    3. In some cases, notably biological weapons researchers, they lobbied against the weapons they themselves developed


    4. Ros-Lehintin lobbied for the release and pardon of several of the worst terrorists


    5. Facing the Apache were Generals Howard and Miles, both of whom had genuine sympathy for Natives and lobbied for better treatment of their former enemies once they were confined


    6. Some of her advisers were also GW Bush's, and indeed one Clinton adviser lobbied hard for support for a coup in Honduras


    7. They lobbied the State legislature to order the technicians to work for what they wanted to pay


    8. Oldaker, who heads the PACs of Reid and Dorgan, has lobbied


    9. Hold on, wasn’t Jan the one who lobbied for this hound?


    10. The significant politicians were duly lobbied on behalf of the interested corporations and won over by the moral argument, and the occasional directorship, and it was not until the full implications of making the therapies universally available were digested and understood by the elite, that a complete u-turn was instigated

    11. For more that two hundred years the less affluent Romans, called the plebeians, lobbied and negotiated for political equality


    12. have lobbied strongly for massive chemical tests on animals, while opposing non-animal testing alternatives


    13. He had also lobbied for Modi with the British government after the 2002 riots


    14. Throughout this book I have advocated and lobbied for readers to travel and


    15. The UUIAO, or Universally and Unanimously Insulted Aquatic Organization, has many times unsuccessfully lobbied for the proper recognition of water dwellers


    16. Prior to the bill becoming law I lobbied state senators, as well as our


    17. news was something I had earnestly lobbied over the last five years,


    18. Columbus lobbied for years all around Europe, for the opportunity to blaze a new trading route to the East


    19. Ryodan lobbied successfully to restore the euro as the only acceptable currency, which baffled me at first


    20. Appalled by a culture that spent “too much time sitting on soft seats in motors, too much sitting in soft seats in movies,” Clarke lobbied the federal government to set aside a wilderness corridor for the trail

    21. “I should have lobbied the DA and insisted that we charge Laws with a felony


    22. Earl William had lobbied hard for Jerome, his father’s able administrator, but in the end Edward had chosen Henri of Mons, a relative of his wife’ s from Hainault in northern France


    23. When I lobbied for committee positions—which I did pretty hard, largely through my growing friendship with Dick Gephardt, who had just gone from House Majority Leader to House Minority Leader—I pushed not for traditional liberal Kennedy placements but a seat on the House Armed Services Committee


    24. Hedge funds lobbied for a repeal, and the feds conceded after a test proved life without the uptick would be just fine


    25. He was part of the Police Outreach Unit in the Potrero Hill projects and a member of a minority action group called the Officers for Justice, which lobbied for and promoted the interests of black officers


    26. We usually tear up places like this, which is why I had lobbied for the McBurger on a little side street


    1. lobbies which were the same size of each of the


    2. His quest leads him to the mysterious Hotel Dusk, and there players will have to explore the various rooms, lobbies and passageways to seek out clues about what happened to Brian


    3. And legislature should be free of lobbies and be listening to the people they serve and their own consciences


    4. But ZTA was still to do a lot because gradually Jewish lobbies and different Christian organizations under influence of Jews had jumped into the arena to support fully the pro Jewish Zulimistan government


    5. lobbies to influence the votes in Congress often over-


    6. With right-wing USA think tank and USA lobbies, financed by billionaires, media and universities have created the beliefs that government are the source of all ills and that free markets are 40


    7. shops and big department stores had shut their doors but the luxury hotels were hives of activity, their lobbies packed with their worried, chattering guests


    8. Everyone has a shared receptionist, answering service, security and common areas such as lobbies, restrooms and conference rooms


    9. The usual places you find pickpockets are in crowded areas such as airports, train and bus stations, hotel lobbies, restaurants, and sporting events


    10. alone, frequently from inattentive travelers in airports, restaurants, and hotel lobbies

    11. 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


    12. After which the curtain again fell, and the spectators poured forth from the theatre into the lobbies and salon


    13. • Incorporates three “sky lobbies” on levels 43, 76 and 123: intermediate floors at which passengers can leave an express elevator and join a local elevator that will stop on every floor in one section of the building


    14. They clustered in doorways, peered from theater lobbies, jostled in alleys, "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" on their lips, "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear" in their eyes, tambourines in hand, snowflakes shaping a collar of grace about then" tender necks


    1. The aim here is not to censor but create a lobby of senior respected citizens who can prevail upon those in control to act when the boundary of decency is crossed


    2. I’ll wait for you in the lobby


    3. We stand there in the back lobby for ages, but eventually, when my sobs have reduced to sniffles, she leads me into the kitchen and sits me down, going over and putting the kettle on to boil


    4. The back lobby is through here – there’s a second loo and a shower


    5. Yellelle lead her into a lobby, where she conversed with some sort of major domo


    6. “Mister Matkins, there are two police officers in the lobby to see you


    7. Three of his clients had a fist fight in the lobby and the State Police had to break it up


    8. Three clients had a fist fight in the lobby and the State Police had to break it up


    9. The lobby was the whole bottom floor, an open room with elevators and signs, sitting areas, information stands, art displays and the course listings


    10. This was like student records, there was a large lobby with a dozen eyes set up

    11. The young pretender then quickly excused herself from the young gentleman and when she was at once in the street, she was immediately joined by the taller lady who took the girl's elbow in her hand and directed her to the hotel and on into the lobby


    12. Allcock carried a letter-sized black leather pouch which he passed to Harry as they descended the stairs to the lobby


    13. They crossed the conservatory of a lobby and were soon out and rounding a corner, striding up Clarke Street toward the River Bridge


    14. Harry was ready in the lobby at 8:40 as had been arranged


    15. I show him the door into the little back lobby where, in addition to having space for the usual clutter of boots and stuff, I have put in a second loo and shower, then upstairs, where I have three bedrooms and a bathroom


    16. Since then he had the Music Manufacturing lobby staked out, but so far he had not regained his quarry


    17. “A man in a hotel lobby wants to ask the clerk a question


    18. Andrew Holmes was ready in the Lido Hotel lobby


    19. They don't like the pictures in the lobby because you can tell the people on the beaches are naked


    20. He'd paid for half her yandrille, he'd supported all her plans, including the audio equipment history exhibit she'd helped him build for the department lobby

    21. Beyond them there was a huge lobby with banks of elevators


    22. There were more elevators in this one lobby than he had seen in Zhlindu, but like the elevators in Zhlindu, these work by buoyancy and weren't very fast


    23. They followed the spiral staircase in the lobby, flanked by highly polished brass railings, to the top floor where the main bedroom was situated


    24. And it is this very same water ride that our intrepid group has in mind as they step off the elevators and stroll through the hotel lobby


    25. ” Sebastian and Venus crossed the lobby, heading toward Psyche’s office


    26. In the corner of the front lobby, Aspen exhaled as she came from behind a potted fig tree in the corner


    27. Sebastian waited in the SUV as Russell went into the main lobby of the hotel to take care of any paperwork needed for their stay


    28. At that moment, Rogan entered the lobby hastily and approached Mars


    29. Mars turned and strode from the lobby


    30. There’s been a lot of pressure to change things and the lobby groups have not only got a lot more powerful, but now they’ve got representatives in the central chamber

    31. He opened the front door and hurried into the small lobby


    32. Only in the main lobby (a place she’d only been through upon her arrival) were there the few security staff, who stared at her impassively


    33. enter the hotel lobby safely


    34. She still had to make it across the lobby and past the reception desk


    35. Grant in the airport lobby


    36. Grant met them in the lobby of the airport


    37. And as a doctor he was aware of the statistics regarding suicide attempts, and was a member of the National Lobby, which was preparing a deputation to the High Court to have suicide decriminalized


    38. crawl inside the lobby


    39. to advertise the games in the lobby of the bank


    40. lobby dressed in a sleeveless tank top and white pants rolled up to the knee

    41. For two days I had been sitting around, either in the hotel lobby or in my hotel room, waiting for the interview to happen


    42. Beth filled her days joining tours that assembled each morning in the lobby


    43. It’s just off the lobby and wraps around three sides of the inn


    44. ” Beth was crossing the lobby with her bag when the double-doors to the kitchen swung open and Sylvia emerged, instantly transformed into a smiling, gracious hostess


    45. She descended through deserted corridors to the lobby in search of a telephone to call a taxi so she could leave immediately but, to her surprise, asleep on a sofa in front of the fireplace, she found Herminia with a pillow cradled to her breast


    46. It was hotel security calling from the lobby, asking her approval for Herminia to come up


    47. Now was as good a time as ever to put an end to their relationship, but the lobby wasn’t the place for that: her permission was given


    48. He was halfway across the lobby when Sylvia’s witchy cackle bounced off the walls


    49. Beth pushed Herminia back inside and raced through the coffee shop into the lobby, glancing this way and that, uncertain of what to do


    50. As she snaked her way among a group in the lobby, through the window a stunning sight appeared: there, on the opposite sidewalk, was the unmistakable figure of a mummy-like Herminia racing towards the corner














































    1. They’re not only lobbying from outside but directly voting on the inside


    2. In recent years, however, many of the ―faithful‖ have been lobbying for easier application and/or interpretation of historical customs and teachings considered dated by contemporary standards


    3. The chief saw that a small group of individuals lobbying for a grant to set up a drop-in center were ready to go now


    4. Gore in fact faced protests by AIDS activists over his lobbying for drug companies, pressuring South Africa's government to not allow cheaper generic anti-AIDS drugs


    5. It was an argument that did not stand up to the lobbying power of the US, which had as leverage the threat of withholding aid dollars


    6. Much lobbying expense is ‘defensive’ in nature, being undertaken to offset lobbying efforts of broadly defined competitors in the political arena


    7. And some lobbying is undertaken for projects that have, in fact, benefits greater than costs; such projects are reasonably likely to be undertaken in any event, rendering special interest expenditures unnecessary


    8. Furthermore, lobbying expenses to be the ‘chosen’ contractor for a demanded project should be at least somewhat reduced under the mechanism because of the political pressure to keep spending low


    9. There will be a sort of automatic demand-side election campaign financing reform, since lobbying groups will reduce their funding if there is less return to that


    10. lobbying to reinstate the Superfund tax which was placed into effect in 1980

    11. It wouldn’t be long before the education-minded began lobbying their representatives to release the obsolete campus for a proposed new college


    12. They are lobbying in California to stop a 150 mile link between San Diego and solar panels


    13. already been lobbying for it and secondly I feel it is a battle I can win


    14. Then he gave my job to my assistant who had contributed little more to the claims team effort than carrying the Trial Lawyers’ briefcases and sucking up to Assistant Secretary of the Navy Gordon McDonald, constantly lobbying for my job


    15. He also got very involved with the local rural electrification groups and spent time lobbying for them at the capitol in Denver


    16. went to work lobbying with Abramoff


    17. ing a lobbying boom in Washington


    18. a system, as far as lobbying is concerned, if we have a process that lends itself to one influential lobbyist with a relationship with one member,” Sen


    19. McCain ’says’ he believes that his lobbying efforts help the


    20. Stearns; many top law firms with lobbying practices in Washington; Paradise Lost_____________________________ 211

    21. Either the foundations should be restricted to funding pure nuts and bolts research, or they should lose all tax-favored status, and be required to register as lobbying


    22. would be independent of lobbying activity


    23. Horse trading took place at the White House and intense lobbying involving


    24. The lobbying activity directed to Congress was intense to ensure that these


    25. In 2009 total lobbying costs were $3


    26. of research validity and funding, lobbying Congress to approve their


    27. greatest lobbying budgets have received the lion’s share of reimbursement


    28. other with black magic, each lobbying that their obeah man wielded more power and that he


    29. And by then, Gautam came to realize that the real bucks lay in lobbying for the defense deals


    30. True to their potential, the ex-bureaucrats began breaking the barriers to facilitate the way for the Global into the arena of lobbying

    31. While Manian sprang into the South Block for liaising with the concerned ministries, Khanna leveraged the embassy channels to profile the lobbying power of Global Facilitators


    32. He reckoned that if only they could pull it off for a nonentity against all odds, then that would take Global to the top of the lobbying world


    33. While Manian felt that betting on an also-ran was not the way to hit the jackpot, Gautam thought the real lobbying was all about making a winner out of the ordinary


    34. Yet, the realization in the right quarters that he had cut his teeth in the world of lobbying gave him immeasurable satisfaction


    35. time until his appointment lobbying the junior members of the AGI board


    36. ‘Sir James Lovatt has been lobbying to combine the four police regions into one force


    37. She was anxious to show me her abilities, lobbying to be head of the royal guard, replacing Jax


    38. The lobbying efforts in the nation’s capital are


    39. In fact, her last known published article about the present conflict had been quite critical of Israeli actions and of the blind support Israel was getting from many American politicians and lobbying groups


    40. That expert, who represented a very powerful Jewish lobbying group in Washington, was now nearly ranting in a furious tone

    41. org/lobby/ So we need a change in our structure of government and laws for lobbying that do not allow them to advance toward self destruction nor countermand the people


    42. I envision the elimination of lobbying, and donations to candidates limited to individuals ($250/year per candidate max) as I stated in Chapter 1


    43. Corporate and company lobbying should be illegal, as it negates the democracy


    44. He befriended Bobby Baker who made a living off of lobbying senators


    45. Part of the guidelines will enforce no lobbying by companies or corporations, and elimination of campaign donations by companies/corporations, no donations on behalf of anyone, and maximum individual donations of $100-250


    46. Lobbying by companies and corporations needs to be eliminated and Congress needs to understand and respect the needs of the people first, as it is intended to be a government for the people


    47. they’re lobbying the local officials hard to press for eminent domain


    48. Google later announced they hired A DOZEN new lobbying firms!


    49. Her job here was largely done, and she was spending most of her days here in Las Vegas fielding calls from lobbying firms across the country


    50. "Your lobbying for this traitor should make me angry, but I won't let it because I understand that the offer put both of you in a difficult situation



















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