Indeed, among Nepal's young, a vocal lobby had been calling for a democratic republic, with no king.

The program has very likely saved the Health Ministry money, improved the treatment of other diseases and - very important - fostered a vocal lobby for better health care.

Indeed the railway companies resisted the idea of workmen's trains, for which from the middle of the nineteenth century there had been a vocal lobby.

In addition, the 600,000 Croatians who live permanently in Germany have emerged as a highly vocal and effective lobby on behalf of their homeland.

Leading members of the opposition Labor Party, whose supporters include a vocal anti-nuclear lobby, sharply criticized the cover-up revealed by the documents.

After a long process of public consultation, his party, Fianna Fail, eventually produced a complicated legal proposal that it hoped would satisfy Ireland's vocal anti-abortion lobby.

I think it will be found that our record and findings are more worthy of public acceptance than the emotional, uninformed and often inaccurate outbursts of this very vocal lobby.

"Russia has a vocal environmental lobby, which might lead to the delay or even cancellation of some projects, leading to higher prices."

These statistics would normally be the stuff of vocal lobbies, calls for action and regulation.