11.   Nonetheless, more than a year ago, Murray began lobbying elected leaders for help.

12.   Pataki was also in his offices in the Capitol, lobbying both leaders.

13.   The Senate bill would rightly do so, but House leaders are being lobbied by the health care industry to refrain from doing the same.

14.   To influence the Palestinians, the Bush administration has been aggressively lobbying leaders of moderate Arab states of Jordan, Egypt, Saudia Arabia, and Morocco.

15.   A former deputy editor of an economics weekly, Gao has been championed by Western governments lobbying Chinese leaders to release political prisoners.

16.   Annan on Thursday lobbied African leaders to exert pressure on the rebels.

17.   China has been aggressively lobbying American leaders not to approve the weapons sales, warning that such deals would severely harm U.S.-China relations.

18.   Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak met German leaders Tuesday as part of his effort to lobby European leaders for a measured response to the terror attacks in the United States.

19.   He and his wife, Graca Machel, pledged to personally lobby other leaders for specific commitments to the program.

20.   He planned to lobby Chinese leaders to back a Pakistani demand for a final settlement over Kashmir, the Himalayan region India and Pakistan have fought two wars over.