21.   Even the powerful American Jewish lobby in Washington has begun to show some cracks, some American Jewish leaders say privately.

22.   Feinstein acknowledged that her more sweeping measure has almost no chance to pass the current Congress, saying that the most powerful lobby in Washington is the gun lobby.

23.   For yet others, it is a way of getting past powerful lobbies.

24.   If this provision survives, Congress will have allowed a powerful lobby to stop legitimate federal litigation simply because it has bought the allegiance of some members of Congress.

25.   In April, he introduced Davis to the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee, the powerful pro-Israel lobby.

26.   In fact, many political analysts figured that tobacco, long once of the most powerful lobbies on Capitol Hill, had lost its magic.

27.   In practice, the steel industry is a powerful lobby that employs many thousands of people.

28.   Jose Cardenas, a spokesman for the Cuban-American National Foundation, the powerful anti-Castro lobby, acknowledged that business interest in Cuba had increased.

29.   Liquor regulation is a case study in the manipulation of politics by powerful lobbies.

30.   Legislators have explored both options for years, but have always shied away from either because of resistance from powerful lobbies.