Sentence example with the word 'lobbyist'

lobbyist

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Definition n. someone who is employed to persuade legislators to vote for legislation that favors the lobbyist's employer

Last update: September 30, 2015


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As a lobbyist for a gun manufacturer, Harry tries to persuade legislators to vote against strict gun control bills.   [Please select]

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The lobbyist took the senator’s secretary out to lunch to see if he could learn more about the legislator’s position on the issue.   [Please select]

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To decrease the evil of lobbying a law was enacted in 1906 which requires that every person employed to promote or oppose the passage of any bill shall file in the office of the secretary of state a written statement showing who has employed him and describing the legislation in respect of which his services are to be rendered; the law also requires the employers of lobbyists to file in the same office within two months after the adjournment of the legislature an itemized statement of all their lobbying expenses, and forbids the employment of a lobbyist for a contingent fee.   [Please select]

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He says that a lawyer should keep to his profession, and not become a lobbyist in the interest of his clients.   [Please select]

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One of the most important functions of Gompers has been that of national lobbyist for the Federation.   [Please select]

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He was party manager, as well as lobbyist and boss in a real sense long before that term was coined.   [Please select]

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An item of $235,000, innocently charged to "Home office annex account," was traced to the hands of a notorious lobbyist at Albany.   [Please select]

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With the decline of the professional lobbyist came the rise of the volunteer lobbyist.   [Please select]

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Cutler must have been a good lobbyist, for Congress was not an efficient body, and unremitting labor, as well as diplomacy, was required for so large and important a matter.   [Please select]

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