- 看过 lobbyist 的人也看了 :
- activist
- powerbroker
- mover and shaker
- pressure group
- influence peddler
lobbyist 的定义
- a person who tries to influence legislation on behalf of a special interest; a member of a lobby.
lobbyist 近义词
special interest representative
更多lobbyist例句
- The Maryland Fraternal Order of Police has mounted a telephone and email campaign to oppose repealing the bill of rights and, with its local lodges, has hired top lobbyists Frank Boston, Gerard Evans and John Stierhoff to assist.
- Bill Castelli, a lobbyist for Maryland Realtors, said he’s not against information to help property owners understand flood risks, but he is skeptical about where it comes from.
- He also represented Paula Parkinson, an insurance lobbyist who claimed to have had affairs with members of Congress, amid a Justice Department inquiry in the early 1980s examining whether her alleged paramours had exchanged votes for sexual favors.
- So across the country, lobbyists for hospitals, nursing homes, clinics and medical practices were working the virtual corridors of power in the first weeks of the pandemic.
- A lot of lawyers and lobbyists will earn their retirements from this one.
- Lobbyist Lloyd Hand, a former aide to Lyndon Johnson, flitted from conversation to conversation.
- Eric told me about a case with which a fellow lobbyist had to cope.
- But first I went to Washington to talk to a lobbyist friend.
- The term “lobbyist” supposedly was coined during the well-corrupted (and well-soaked) presidency of Ulysses S. Grant.
- I moved to Washington in 1988 with the folk etymology of lobbyist firmly in mind.
- I have been in the Legislature as a labor lobbyist for some years and I have had a little experience in such matters.
- The fact was that he was a neophyte and, it was true, did not possess the qualities which make a successful lobbyist.
- The successful lobbyist demands and receives for his services larger pay than the salary of congressmen.
- George W. Ball was, for several years, a registered lobbyist in Washington, representing foreign commercial interests.
- If that is your idea, I give you fair warning that I will oppose your claims with all the arts of the lobbyist.