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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
lobby .
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Examples
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He said the publisher originally wanted all of the book tour travel to be by plane, but Palin lobbied for a bus tour.
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Then the crowning jewel is that OHSU gets ONE dollar of every TWO dollars lobbied from the federal government to put into their own coffers per the SoWhat Agreement.
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"He said the publisher originally wanted all of the book tour travel to be by plane, but Palin lobbied for a bus tour." .... well isn't SHE just too nice ....
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Just more of the same narrow minded, shortsighted and "lobbied" approach to NOT solving our nation's problems.
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Just more of the same narrow minded, shortsighted and "lobbied" approach to NOT solving our nation's problems.
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That was actually a scene that I kind of lobbied for with Brenda.
INTERVIEW: Molly Ringwald Talks “The Secret Life of the American Teeager” 2009
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The issue is that Iseman "lobbied" McCain on behalf of Paxson Communications, who had business in front of the Senate Commerce Committee, of which Mr. McCain was the Chairman.
Vote McCain in 2008 (if you think George W. Bush deserves a third term) 2008
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"At the time I sort of was horrified by it and I kind of lobbied to have it changed when we did the movie but we would have had to go back and film other parts."
Winnipeg Sun 2010
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"At the time I sort of was horrified by it and I kind of lobbied to have it changed when we did the movie but we would have had to go back and film other parts."
Ottawa Sun 2010
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Next, there's a revolt brewing among lobbyists (including the so-called do-gooders) who say they're being denied both government jobs as well as the constitutional right to petition just because they have "lobbied" in the past.
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