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The lobbying effort has led to unusual alliances, particularly in the wake of the strikes, with both studios and Hollywood unions rallying on the same side.

Prior to his arrest, he had been holding gatherings across the country with a rallying call of "no reforms, no elections".

Jenrick said he was running the London Marathon for SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity, adding he was "rallying support for the cause".

Nexstar, the largest station owner in the U.S., is having its TV stations run news stories that are aimed at rallying support for changing ownership rules.

We can’t go on rallying only for each successive crisis or onstage moment — a post-riot rebuilding, a library fire, the Olympics — and then claim to be a great city in between.