How to Use lobbyist in a Sentence

lobbyist

noun

• The health lobbyist said that's still being worked out.
  — Victoria Knight, Axios, 31 July 2024
• At his side for at least part of the trip was Ms. Tao, the lobbyist, who had risen to the post of vice president at Tesla.
  — John Liu, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2024
• The company, which has 150 million users in the U.S., has encouraged users in the state to speak out against the bill and hired lobbyists to do so as well.
  — Amy Beth Hanson and Haleluya Hadero, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Apr. 2023
• Now, lobbyists for the milk industry are pushing to bring it back.
  — Phil Galewitz, oregonlive, 13 July 2023
• But that would take standing up to the Big Pharma lobbyists who cut an awful lot of campaign checks.
  — Scott Maxwell, Orlando Sentinel, 19 June 2024
• This is a huge win for British private equity (and its lobbyists).
  — Dan Primack, Axios, 31 Oct. 2024
• The Las Vegas Sands, the company that hired an army of lobbyists to push the proposal, will continue to be all in for the effort.
  — Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 16 May 2023
• The union hired lobbyists to work the Capitol, encouraging lawmakers to strike down the bill.
  — Robert Samuels, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2023
• There was a frenzied push during the lame-duck period to get the bills over the line—and equally frenzied pushback from Big Tech lobbyists on the Hill.
  — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 13 Mar. 2023
• The company, which has 150 million users in the U.S., has encouraged users in the state to speak out against the legislation and hired lobbyists to do so as well.
  — CBS News, 14 Apr. 2023
• And, of course, the lobbyists are fighting to water it down with each iteration.
  — Alice Short, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2024
• The House Energy & Commerce Committee hasn’t yet announced the markup, and the lobbyists didn’t know the exact date.
  — John Wilkerson, STAT, 7 July 2023
• Gil Garcetti and Sukey Garcetti — hired lobbyists to help win his confirmation.
  — Jennifer Haberkorn, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2023
• Former lobbyist Neil Clark, who had pleaded not guilty, died by suicide in March 2021.
  — Jessie Balmert, USA TODAY, 29 June 2023
• Mattiello ended up losing his seat later in the year, and is now a lobbyist.
  — Dan McGowan, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2023
• In that respect, the Supreme Court’s reversal of the 1984 Chevron doctrine could turn out to be a pyrrhic victory for business leaders and a boon for lobbyists and lawyers.
  — Jason Ma, Fortune, 2 July 2024
• The Koch network has challenged Chevron in the courts and its lobbyists have pushed Congress to pass a law nullifying the decision.
  — Joshua Kaplan, ProPublica, 22 Sep. 2023
• There are laws on the books barring spouses of lobbyists from treating city officials with gifts.
  — Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2024
• Appointees cannot have been a lobbyist or have served in a partisan state or local office.
  — Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 15 June 2023
• The ban on lobbyists engaging in campaign fundraising has been in effect for decades.
  — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 20 July 2024
• TechNet, a Big Tech lobbyist group, had a large influence over the law's final wording.
  — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 2 July 2024
• Within two months — and with the assistance of an army of Nevada lobbyists —the A’s had secured the public funding for a Las Vegas ballpark.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• But two and a half weeks before the end of the session, an email from a Mayo lobbyist landed in the inboxes of Walz’s most senior advisers and set off a panic.
  — Max Nesterak, ProPublica, 31 Oct. 2024
• There’s a consummate lobbyist and a political consultant who was the face of the City Club of Chicago.
  — Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 13 Mar. 2023
• Given the roadblocks, privacy lobbyists and activists are concerned the FBI is preparing to go all the way to the president to seek help.
  — Max Thornberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 29 July 2024
• If these practices are not forestalled soon, the least scrupulous actors will quickly accrue power and the fancy lobbyists and lawyers that come along with it.
  — Adam Clair, Vox, 1 July 2024
• But whether the opposition the company is mounting through lobbyists or influencers will be enough to derail the bill is yet to be seen.
  — Haleluya Hadero, Quartz, 12 Mar. 2024
• On July 19, Sanders appointed Cox, an attorney and a lobbyist, as a special justice in the case.
  — Michael R. Wickline, Arkansas Online, 13 Oct. 2023
• Some lobbyists said the PBM reforms are aimed at helping pharmacies.
  — John Wilkerson and Rachel Cohrs, STAT, 27 Oct. 2023
• Its stock is down more than 50%, and the company is on the back foot, hiring lobbyists and defending its reputation.
  — Heather Somerville, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 29 Nov 2024