lobbing [法] 游说拉票
Lob \Lob\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lobbed} (l[o^]bd); p. pr. & vb.
n. {Lobbing}.]
2. To let fall heavily or lazily.
And their poor jades
Lob down their heads. --Shak.
2. to propel (relatively slowly) in a high arcing trajectory;
as, to lob a grenade at the enemy.
[PJC]
{To lob a ball} (Lawn Tennis), to strike a ball so as to send
it up into the air.
- A 36-year-old white man accused of lobbing a hand grenade into a crowd of blacks during a racial melee could be charged with as many as nine counts of attempted murder, police said.
- Police said a witness heard an assailant shout "long live Lebanon" before lobbing two hand grenades into the facility.
- Experts believe that the 132-feet-long pipes, which have a bore of almost 40 inches, could be pieced together to form the barrel of a gun capable of lobbing chemical or nuclear shells several hundred miles.
- Still, who would have expected the Russians last week to be lobbing dummy ICBMs around Hawaii?
- After lobbing tear gas into the room and getting no response, police sent a remote-controlled, camera-equipped robot device into the room and discovered the bodies at about 10:30 a.m.
- Give the broadcasters a week or so and they will be lobbing new programmes at us so fast that none of us will be able to keep up. Politicians may have fought their way clear of the old boom-bust cycle but not broadcasters.
- Bull reportedly was hired by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to develop a supergun capable of lobbing shells hundreds of miles or launch satellites cheaply.
- With Iran and Iraq engaged in a so-called "war of the cities" _ the lobbing of missiles against major population centers _ the introduction of more rockets into the region has raised concerns in Washington, spokesmen said.
- South African police waged running battles with anti-apartheid protesters in Johannesburg, firing shotguns into the air and lobbing tear gas at youths defying emergency laws to protest next week's racially segregated elections.