1.  Although the lobbying effort appeared to help proponents avoid an intense discussion on the convention floor this morning, some dissenting voices received applause after they were heard.

2.  An Education Department official said that the university is very aggressive in its lobbying efforts.

3.  And after a lobbying effort, the Orlando museum is expected to get a substantial increase in government funding, putting it back on a firm footing.

4.  And environmental activists in Washington warned this week that a new lobbying effort may essentially deny access to the worst-case information.

5.  And no one mounted a concentrated lobbying effort against it, he said.

6.  And perhaps tens of millions more dollars were spent on lobbying efforts.

7.  And Secretary of State Madeleine Albright contributed what was described in Congress as an unimpressive last-minute lobbying effort.

8.  And some say these lobbying efforts are the politics of the future.

9.  And they will call for continued pro-gun lobbying efforts.

10.  And the White House itself is now under a heavy lobbying effort by Republican governors to change the testing methods required of states under the bill.