But even this little lobbyist has a certain definiteness which public men generally lack.
Mr. Silver is a lobbyist with the powers of a dictator, or a dictator with the habits of a lobbyist, whichever way you wish to look at it.
The substance of it was that his murderess is a Miss Laura Hawkins, whom he had known at Washington as a lobbyist and had some business with her.
She, herself, was not without money, for the Washington lobbyist is not seldom more fortunate than the Washington claimant, and she was able to procure a good many luxuries to mitigate the severity of her prison life.
Weeks of Massachusetts, and the best lobbyist in the State, assisted by Burns P.
But the inspired lobbyistdid not pass his time in wearing an aspect of satisfaction.
During this short period of his life he was the most successful and famous lobbyist in Washington, and the most sought after by the most rascally and desperate claimants of unlawful millions.
He realized that as soon as he cast his vote for Burroughs all the advances and marks of favor which stamp a lobbyist of the sex without a franchise would be a thing of the past--an episode to be forgotten.
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I do not suppose that Thurlow Weed could ever have been admitted in such society if he were travelling on his own merits as the great lobbyist and politician.
The eminent lobbyist stood there gulping down wrath and pride, knowing well enough what was expected of him.
Freckles looked around into Mr. Ludlow's face, and he saw that the eminent lobbyist was nervous.
And very likely if you are wronged, the wrongdoer has so cleverly gone round the law that it needs legislation to set you straight, and that needs a lobbyist, whom the lawyer must hire, or he must turn lobbyist himself.
A well-known congressman, of unsavory reputation as a lobbyist in aiding and securing government contracts for his friends, was the latest addition to the legal forces of the opposition.
Possibly you prefer the blandishments of a lobbyistto the opinion of a practical cowman like Sanders.
Personally, I'm nothing but a frontier lawyer from Dodge, but I'm the equal of any lobbyist that ever left Washington City.
With the decline of the professional lobbyist came the rise of the volunteer lobbyist.
He was party manager, as well as lobbyistand boss in a real sense long before that term was coined.
No lobbyist had the faintest idea of "approaching" the old man in that way.
It was late the following night when the lobbyist concluded his interview with Representative Rollinson, in the latter's little room, half lighted by the oil-smelling lamp.
Who could blame the Congressman for leaving the bad cooking of his hotel or boarding-house, with an absence of all home comforts, to walk into the parlor web which the adroit spider lobbyisthad cunningly woven for him.
Who can blame the Congressman for leaving the bad cooking of his hotel or boarding- house, with the absence of all home comforts, to walk into the parlor web which the cunning spider-lobbyist weaves for him?
He did not believe that the President of the United States should be made a lobbyistto bring about annexation by Congress.
A woman with a measure of social standing would naturally prove the most successful as a lobbyist in Washington because of the opportunities her position would afford her to meet people of prominence.
The lobbyist hurried away, his bibulous soul swelling with satisfaction.
The lobbyistheard the Southerner give a short exclamation of astonishment as Peabody whispered to him.
All this also helps the lobbyist to secure and retain employment.
The lobbyist thrust himself down in his chair, puffed slowly at a cigar, and gazed thoughtfully at the ceiling.
He was a friend of Peabody's," laughed thelobbyist to the Mississippian.
The bigger the scare the bigger the fund advanced, of course, for the lobbyist to handle.
The lobbyist knows all about these "strike" bills, but does not frown on them.
A ring of a bell announced the arrival of Jake Steinert, whose reputation as a lobbyist of advanced ability had spread wide in the twenty years he had spent in Washington.
The danger involved for the lobbyist for reform measures was emphasized the night the measure prohibiting the sale of intoxicants within a mile and a half of Stanford University passed the Assembly.
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The danger which threatened the gambling element brought to the capital every machine lobbyist within reach, from Frank Daroux down.
A Republican Senator even declared that the President, who had been actively urging his views on legislators just as he had done in New Jersey, was himself the chief lobbyist in connection with the Tariff Bill.
He devoted more time to his law practice and became a lobbyist for the Indiana Railroad Lobby Assn.
Now I'm a railroadlobbyist whenever the Session meets.
Later, in the thirties and forties, he continued his political career as a lobbyist for the railroad industry.
Otherwise, Pap tended to the farm, his lobbyist duties, and wrote a newspaper ad celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Russellville Bank.
Aside from domestic duties, his law practice and lobbyist activities, Pap became more involved running the family farm and in other agrarian pursuits, including the purchase of Hereford bulls.
Talcott, conveyed no information to those who saw it on the register, and so he sat aside from the crowd all day, untouched by the male lobbyist or the girl office seekers.
As you all know, there is hardly a year but we have had a lobbyist in the different state legislatures--one year in New York, one year in New Jersey, and so on.
So it was no mean intellect which devised the scheme whereby every newspaper in America is made an active lobbyist for the patent-medicine association.
The lobbyist served it, and Mr. Leggett talked on.
The lobbyist revived the subject of politics, the publican went after hot water for a punch, and the eavesdroppers slipped away.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lobbyist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: access; court; heavyweight; influence; key; lobby; lobbyist; manipulator
