Both countries face formidable resistance to reform from formidable vested interests and lobby groups.

Tom met Mary in the hotel lobby.

Less fragmented industries also lobby better.

Under pressure from an international lobby, multinational banks stopped investing in South Africa, resulting in economic stagnation.

Coordination française pour le lobby européen des femmes

Google should have something like this in their lobby.

Coordination francaise du lobby européen des femmes (2000 2003)

In America, by contrast, the Chamber of Commerce and other business interests lobby hard to keep politicians from ever proposing such solutions.

Meaning The artistic director doesn't necessarily need to go through our lobby.

Greece, on the other hand, is under the influence of a strong import lobby.

The powerful US cotton lobby wants no change in the level of payments, however.

Bard argues the term Israel lobby is more accurate, because it comprises both formal and informal elements (which includes public opinion), and ...because a large proportion of the lobby is made up of non Jews.

At night, a large cube of light above the lobby also emanates blue light, while during the day it provides white light to the lobby, and at dusk it transitions to violet and back to blue.

In the United States, this group of people have a very strong political lobby.

The US textile lobby insisted that knit fabrics exported north come from Central America. The trouble is that Central America relies on third countries for knit fabrics.

As America s gun lobby puts it, Guns don t kill people people kill people.

These centres will be located within the restricted area in the East Foyer on the second floor of the General Assembly Building, in the Information Booth in the public lobby of the General Assembly and in the DC 1 lobby.

From a political point of view, there was the famed Taiwan lobby, one of the most powerful in the US, still dominated by the conservative wing of American politics.

The Roundtable of Estonian Women's Associations is also the Estonian national coordinator in the European Women's Lobby.

Faced with a rapidly growing health crisis, the British authorities equipped with little scientific understanding of the disease, and under pressure from a powerful industrial lobby made a fatal mistake.

In 2009 a new body was formed, the Australian Secular Lobby , to promote secular education in Australia.

True, in the endgame of the talks, the US caved in to its wealthy and powerful agribusiness lobby.

Civil society organizations were not so complacent, using the courts, the media, and civil disobedience to lobby for change.

ODA Development Aid Encourage and lobby developed countries to devote 0.7 of GNP to international development aid.

And its export lobby is fighting fiercely to keep the exchange rate roughly where it is relative to the dollar.

A US veto of a Security Council resolution supported by the Council s 14 other members to oppose Israeli settlements seemed to signal that Obama had crumbled under pressure from America s pro Israel lobby.

The leaked seven point action plan published by Nawaat sheds light on the presidency's strategies to lobby support for the bill.

But it is time to go further and begin to lobby aggressively for faster financial liberalization in the developing world.

Inside the main lobby, artist Jenny Holzer created a large light installation with glowing text moving across wide plastic panels.

From everything from a weird hotel lobby, to Saran wrap placed over your window, to this moment where I had my road in front of my house paved dark black, and this white moth was sitting there dying in the sun.

The attacker would then leave the disk on the floor of an elevator or somewhere in the lobby of the targeted company.

Marge was created and designed by cartoonist Matt Groening while he was waiting in the lobby of James L. Brooks' office.

More and more people are speaking out, and the cosy protection offered by the Israel lobby is fading away little by little.

Likewise, French banks holding Greek bonds cling to whatever thin reed of optimism they can and lobby furiously against restructuring.

In both Korea and Japan, large firms entry into the service sector is impeded by restrictive regulation, for which small producers are an influential lobby. Regulation prevents wholesalers from branching downstream into retailing, and vice versa.

A solar or wind lobby can be just as self serving as an oil or gas lobby, while excessive government involvement in the energy sector through subsidies or restrictive regulation can distort natural market conditions and ultimately damage alternative energy development. Similarly, EU wide collaboration on research and development and on subsidy programs should be encouraged in order to prevent individual member states policies from undercutting each other s efforts.

A condensed version of the working paper was published in March 2006 by the London Review of Books under the title The Israel Lobby.

So, returning to tactics and the evolution lobby, I want to argue that rocking the boat may be just the right thing to do.

By contrast, interest groups with big stakes in the rules follow corporate governance issues closely, and they lobby politicians to get favorable regulations.

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Bankers can, of course, ignore their critics and the public, and use their money to lobby in the right quarters to maintain their privileges.

Again, meetings, seminars, side events to official meetings, were as many occasions to lobby the International Financial Institutions, the EU, governments and official delegates.

Although the Constitution was rejected by French voters in May 2005, Giscard continued to actively lobby for its passage in other European Union states.

UNICEF continues to lobby the Ugandan army to ensure that all returnees are rapidly processed into reception centres for counselling, monitoring and family tracing.

Union members also lobby for safe work environments and for better medical care, especially for children whose jobs present a health risk.