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It has lobbied hard to get companies to stop using them, and to urge restaurant chains not to buy pork from farms that do.

These experts lobbied to declassify many more than the handful that have thus far been released.

Pitt had already gotten booked for Se7en, lobbied hard to get the part in 12 Monkeys, the director Terry Gilliam has said.

The U.S. State Department has lobbied unsuccessfully for his release.

Behind the scenes, the Obama administration frantically lobbied senators to delete Kirk-Menendez.

You know mighty well the man that got it up an' come there an' lobbied for it, was one o' your own kind—a silk stocking.

Its bonding privilege was one of the most disgraceful bits of jobbery ever lobbied through a corrupt little legislature.