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Recent Examples of lobbying
Mario Jorge Machado, president of the European apparel and textile lobbying group Euratex said the Chinese giant’s low-price model is only made possible by flouting EU environmental and tax rules to externalize costs.
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Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 16 Sep. 2025
Beyond providing financial stability and resilience, enterprise capital enables nonprofits to invest in proactive legal, communications and lobbying capacity.
—Andrea Levere, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Years of lobbying and court battles by the LGBTQ community have achieved a few successes over the past decade.
—Chris Lau, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2025
That rule, heralded by consumer advocates as a long-overdue protection, was shelved after aggressive airline lobbying, which raised doubts about whether the agency is committed to strengthening passenger protections.
—AFAR Media, 15 Sep. 2025
Other financial services lobbying groups are also making changes.
—Rachel Witkowski, semafor.com, 15 Sep. 2025
That lobbying appeared to work.
—Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2025
Officials at Johnson & Johnson have turned to a handful of lobbying shops for work in Massachusetts this year, according to state lobbying records.
—Chris Van Buskirk, Boston Herald, 14 Sep. 2025
But Texas is not among them, despite intense lobbying efforts, in keeping with the Lone Star State’s aversion to casino gambling.
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Sep. 2025
Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 16 Sep. 2025
Beyond providing financial stability and resilience, enterprise capital enables nonprofits to invest in proactive legal, communications and lobbying capacity.
—Andrea Levere, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Years of lobbying and court battles by the LGBTQ community have achieved a few successes over the past decade.
—Chris Lau, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2025
That rule, heralded by consumer advocates as a long-overdue protection, was shelved after aggressive airline lobbying, which raised doubts about whether the agency is committed to strengthening passenger protections.
—AFAR Media, 15 Sep. 2025
Other financial services lobbying groups are also making changes.
—Rachel Witkowski, semafor.com, 15 Sep. 2025
That lobbying appeared to work.
—Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2025
Officials at Johnson & Johnson have turned to a handful of lobbying shops for work in Massachusetts this year, according to state lobbying records.
—Chris Van Buskirk, Boston Herald, 14 Sep. 2025
But Texas is not among them, despite intense lobbying efforts, in keeping with the Lone Star State’s aversion to casino gambling.
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lobbying
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Negotiation and influencing skills are critical capabilities that the candidates can highlight as a testament to their ability to navigate the organizational dynamics, maneuver tricky situations and secure buy-in from detractors, if any.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
20 Aug. 2025
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Coercion and pressuring cannot solve problems.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Sep. 2025
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There are similarities between the standoff playing out between the White House and the Fed, and President Richard Nixon’s pressuring of the central bank in the 1970s, according to Nomura.—
Alex Harring,
CNBC,
27 Aug. 2025
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By generating comprehensive solutions with minimal prompting, ChatGPT-5 removes the need for these mental rehearsals, creating a skill gap between competence and performance.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
10 Aug. 2025
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Computer scientist Peter Burke has unveiled a robot that uses generative AI models to train its brain and host hardware, subject to proper prompting by handlers.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Aug. 2025
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Yet somehow, in a medium of heavy copper, Fischl captures the lithe, swaying, physical vitality of Ashe, as well as the high-mindedness of the man who was so committed to social causes.—
Sally Jenkins,
The Atlantic,
30 Aug. 2025
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Bamboo basket boats swirl through the Bay Mau nipa palm forest—their skippers casting nets in the shade of swaying fronds.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
24 Aug. 2025
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And for a moment, sometime in the 1970s and early 1980s, this sense of possibility wasn’t just cultural brainwashing.—
Alissa Quart,
Time,
30 Aug. 2025
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Conspiracies and brainwashing In Argentina, there was the troubling disappearance of five-year-old Loan Peña in Corrientes province.—
Agustino Fontevecchia,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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“Lobbying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lobbying. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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