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Definition of Lobbied
1. lobby [v] - See also: lobby
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lobbied
Literary usage of Lobbied
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Story of the Woman's Party by Inez Haynes Gillmore (1921)
"At the beginning of the Congressional Union work in Washington, for instance,
they lobbied Senators and Representatives to march in the big parade of March ..."
2. Individual Training in Our Colleges by Clarence Frank Birdseye (1907)
"and lobbied for lotteries. Lotteries for Politico-theo- early con- **!*• forces
in lobbying the lotteries through the legislature. The later lotteries were ..."
3. The Story of a Mine: And Other Tales by Bret Harte (1907)
"X WHO lobbied FOR IT It was a midsummer's day in Washington. Even at early morning,
while the sun was yet level with the faces of pedestrians in its broad, ..."
4. The Politics of Trade and Industrial Policy in Africa: Forced Consensus? by Charles Chukwuma Soludo, Michael Osita Ogbu, Ha-Joon Chang (2004)
"Also, 86 percent of firms and 89.2 percent of associations have never lobbied,
against 1.5 percent of firms and 11 percent of associations having lobbied. ..."
5. Great Debates in American History: From the Debates in the British by United States Congress, Marion Mills Miller, Great Britain Parliament (1913)
"Minister Hatch has lobbied for it. Ex-Minister Thurston has lobbied for it, and
has written and sent a book ... Other lesser personages have lobbied for it. ..."
6. The Parliamentary Debates: Official Report by Northern Ireland Parliament. House of Commons (1882)
"It was ^* "*' mem°ers should be lobbied to pass ™«gh a Bill like this. ...
They would not find it lobbied as it had been by the Press Association, ..."
7. Human Rights Watch World Report, 2003: Events of 2002 (November 2001 by Human Rights Watch, Human Rights Watch Staff (2003)
"We lobbied on behalf of activists convicted for their political beliefs, ...
We monitored the trials of ten Syrian political reformers and lobbied the EU in ..."
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