1.   Environmentalists, led by the Greenpeace organization and the World Wide Fund for Nature, had conducted an intense campaign in support of the world park proposals.

2.   An intense lobbying campaign by the automobile industry to get the mandates repealed appears to be paying off.

3.   An intense lobbying campaign has erupted over the sale, and several senior administration officials said the opponents have prevailed, at least for now, and maybe forever.

4.   Airbus has mounted an intense campaign against the change in so-called ETOPS regulations.

5.   Both sides are waging intense lobbying campaigns.

6.   But an intense lobbying campaign from agribusiness and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce softened their resolve.

7.   But both Texas businessmen are foot soldiers in what may be the most intense lobbying campaign in history.

8.   But in an intense public lobbying campaign this week, Dreamworks has hardly behaved like a player ready to fold its cards.

9.   But the administration can take credit for its intense lobbying campaign, including bringing European foreign ministers to Capitol Hill.

10.   But some of those proposals were defeated in the House last month after an intense campaign by the gun lobby.