11.   Padres owner John Moores had lobbied to keep Murdoch from buying the Dodgers because he believed Murdoch would hurt the game.

12.   One worked on plan A, which was to lobby to keep the base open.

13.   Prokopec and Eric Gagne are lobbying to keep a spot in the starting rotation once Andy Ashby returns from an elbow injury.

14.   The National Association of Broadcasters began lobbying to keep this valuable property even longer.

15.   The Park Service, meanwhile, is lobbying to keep the crossings open.

16.   White lobbied to keep his job when meeting with reporters in Oakland on Monday.

17.   Already, though, she has been lobbying to keep the United Nations and the Chinese from excluding certain groups that are controversial for one reason or another.

18.   At a meeting last month, some wanted to lobby to keep the tax, while others wanted to let it die.

19.   In tenaciously lobbying to keep the Americas Cup in Colombia, Andres Pastrana turned a soccer tournament into a crusade, and won.

20.   Iran and Libya had lobbied to keep output lower, for fear that the Saudis will flood the market and ruin prices.