As a partner at one of Washington's most powerful lobbying law firms, Mr. Brown's resume is thick with representation of foreign governments and interests.

Both sets of cuts will hurt New York's hospitals, a powerful lobbying group.

As part of those settlements the industry disbanded the Tobacco Institute, its powerful lobbying and research arm.

The only bill with which Patton's powerful lobbying did not succeed was the criminalization of sexual assault between spouses.

Film censorship is carried out by various countries to differing degrees, sometimes as a result of powerful or relentless lobbying by organizations or individuals.

The legislation has created a number of odd alliances and has fattened the bank accounts of some of the most powerful lobbying and law firms in Washington.

But numerous legislative attempts to rein in the litigation has failed because of powerful lobbying by the state's trial lawyers.

This is confirmed yet again by our discussions and the particularly powerful lobbying.

He prepared this report under exceptionally difficult circumstances, as he had to face unusually powerful lobbying from the representatives of the consortium responsible for constructing this controversial project.

The bill survived some powerful lobbying from the national advertising community.