lobby

Definition:
1. A large entrance or reception room or area.
2. A group of people who try actively to influence legislation.
3. Detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the outer garments of; as for political or economic favors.

Use 'lobby' in a sentence:

• 1. In pursuit of revealing this complicated reality, Mothering Justice, led by women of color, went last year to the state capital in Lansing, Michigan, to lobby on issues that affect working mothers.
• 2. The union has attacked the plan and threatened to lobby against it.
• 3. It held the record for the highest lobby in the world until the Shanghai Park Hyatt eclipsed it.
• 4. The lobby is decorated in pastels.
• 5. The antismoking lobby was out to destroy our way of life and the government should stay out of the way?
• 6. For some people, that sort of language attack is evidence that Mr. King is taking on the banking lobby.
• 7. She introduced me into the lobby.
• 8. The idea that "housing crisis" equals "concreted meadows" is pure lobby talk.
• 9. The idea that the "housing crisis" equals "concreted meadows" is pure lobby talk.
• 10. He came from the twenty-third floor down to the lobby on the mezzanine to collect his mail before breakfast, and he believed—he hoped—that he looked passably well: doing all right.
• 11. Some MBC employees are sleeping in the station's lobby to prevent police from seizing their videotapes and notes.
• 12. I put it in the lobby just now.
• 13. The bar is right behind the lobby.
• 14. People write about it, they lobby about it and care a lot about it and the food industry spends a lot of time worrying about it.
• 15. The delegates entered the assembly hall by way of the lobby.
• 16. Mary is in the lobby of Grand Hyatt hotel.
• 17. 24 hours foreign currency exchange service is provided at Hotel lobby.
• 18. I walked into the lobby of my apartment building recently and was greeted by this notice, "To whoever is watering these plants, please stop."
• 19. Refreshments are being sold in the lobby.
• 20. An agricultural lobby is against a law to allow importing cotton from egypt.
• 21. Most of the others were already there, talking excitedly in the lobby.
• 22. He said he can meet you here in the lobby.
• 23. The changes would have to be approved or rejected as a whole by Congress, making it hard for narrow-interest lobbies to bend lawmakers to their will.
• 24. He set up this lobby of independent producers.
• 25. Carers from all over the UK lobbied Parliament last week to demand a better financial deal.
• 26. It did not escape notice that a lobbying firm set up by Lynton Crosby, David Cameron's election campaign director, had previously acted for Philip Morris International.
• 27. The ecologists lobbied powerfully on the anti-nuclear issue.
• 28. The lobby is trying to hamper the policy of the U.S. government.
• 29. They are actively lobbying against the bill.
• 30. After breakfast the old guests sat down on the green leather armchairs and sofas in the lobby and began to gossip and look into the papers; they had nothing to do but wait out the day.
• 31. We'll talk about the amount of money that goes into Washington to lobby on behalf of the food industry.
• 32. Agricultural interests are some of the most powerful lobbies in Washington.
• 33. The bustle in the vestibule, as she passed along an inner lobby, assured her that they were already in the house.
• 34. They have these huge animals right in the lobby.
• 35. The vote is seen as a defeat for the anti-abortion lobby.
• 36. The smooth door opened and the great dark-red uneven carpet that covered the lobby billowed toward Wilhelm's feet.
• 37. In the foreground, the lobby was dark, sleepy.
• 38. The company hired the President's special trade representative to lobby Mr. Pierce.
• 39. He has to satisfy the environmental lobby that real progress will be made to cut emissions.
• 40. The Confederation of British Industry, a business lobby group, estimates that 15 billion pounds could be saved by treating chronic diseases at home.
• 41. Farmers will lobby Congress for higher subsidies.
• 42. Council tenants around the country are planning a mass lobby of Parliament.
• 43. Norway's stock exchange and its main business lobby oppose the law, as do many businessmen.
• 44. I met her in the lobby of the museum.
• 45. Rather than politely lobbying politicians, Gay Dignity will be making its presence felt through demonstrations.
• 46. We were requested to assemble in the lobby.
• 47. Under lobby pressure, George Osborne favors rural new-build against urban renovation and renewal.
• 48. 3,000 city officials descended on Capitol Hill to lobby for more money.
• 49. Some 3,000 city officials will descend on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to lobby for more money.
• 50. It must be terribly frustrating to lobby and get absolutely nowhere.
• 51. The favored proposal of the motorists' lobby is to widen the highway, adding an additional lane of traffic.
• 52. Women's groups are lobbying to get more public money for children.
• 53. Her sympathies lie with the anti-abortion lobby.