lobby effort

基本解释

Furthermore, the building will include garden terraces and a green wall within its lobby, in an effort to connect the space with the natural environment around it.
此外，该建筑将包括花园露台和大堂内的绿色墙壁，努力将空间与周围的自然环境连接起来。
Andy Rubin, director of mobile platforms at Google, says managing the software-development effort while giving its partners the opportunity to lobby for new features takes time.
谷歌无线平台部门的主管安迪•鲁宾(Andy Rubin)表示，统筹软件开发工作，让合作伙伴完成宣传其手机新功能的工作，这都需要时间。

It is also looking to fund ways in which it can mobilize media reform activists in numerous countries in an effort to lobby for new laws and legal actions, most of it targeted at News Corp.
FORBES: After UK Scandal, Media Activists Gunning For Rupert Murdoch
Another part of that effort is the K Street Project, named for the Washington street where lobby firms tend to settle, between the Capitol and the White House.
NPR: Republican Lobbyists on the Rise in Washington
The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU), a lobby group which co-ordinated the appeal, says the resolution is part of an effort by Islamic governments to establish a new definition of human rights which stresses the immunity of faiths from criticism, not the protection of individuals from persecution.
ECONOMIST: Religion and human rights