The U.S. is being made to look like a deadbeat because Clinton is in thrall to a domestic lobby.

We're a domestic lobby.

True dumping should not be tolerated, but these claims are judged by Commerce Department officials, who tend to be highly solicitous of domestic lobbies.

The catch, from the White House's perspective, is that oil, too, has an effective domestic lobby.

The Government appears caught between largely international pressure to reduce the amount of burning and deforestation, and powerful domestic lobbies from the logging industry, farmers and large landholders.

At the new Kansai airport, the domestic and international lobbies are sandwiched just one level apart from each other, a quick escalator ride.

"But we are under no obligation to apply an American law produced by a domestic lobby for narrow interests."

Some industrial nations, under pressure from domestic environmental lobbies, want advocacy groups, like Friends of the Earth or Greenpeace, to play a central prosecutorial role.

I therefore see this as a purely political manoeuvre - President Bush placating domestic and special-interest lobbies.

"Since we're so driven by domestic lobbies, it's not surprising that our policy actions are not in concert."