lobby against

lobby against something

to solicit support against something, such as a piece of legislation or a government regulation. We sent a lot of lawyers to the state capital to lobby against the bill, but it passed anyway. They lobbied against the tax increase.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Iunia	-	Ancient Roman, Biblical Latin
Olexiy	-	Ukrainian
Emanuel	e-MAH-nuw-el (German)	Romanian, Portuguese, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, Czech, Croatian
Marijan	-	Croatian, Slovene
Darlene	dahr-LEEN	English
Hoyt	HOIT	English