1.   But it is increasingly clear that what was being offered by the administration were opportunities to lobby the president on policy.

2.   But the president is being lobbied heavily by the Japanese government and business leaders to resolve the crisis in a nonviolent way.

3.   He is running against Clinton while at the same time lobbying the president.

4.   He lobbied the president of Kazakhstan to help Chevron Corp. win an oil contract.

5.   He said he does not lobby the president and knows little about legislation.

6.   He used his friendship with President Lyndon B. Johnson to press his case and called on associates to lobby the president as well.

7.   Samaranch has lobbied the presidents of North and South Korea to march as one country during the opening ceremonies on Friday in Sydney.

8.   Some organizations have already begun lobbying the president directly.

9.   The president has been lobbied relentlessly by religious conservatives and antiabortion activists who maintain that embroyo research destroys a human life.

10.   But Lobov complained to Yeltsin that the Chechens were not disarming fast enough, and lobbied the president for more financial aid for Chechnya.