In Germany, the Federal Constitutional Court has ordered parliamentarians to reveal their outside income often from lobbying activities on behalf of big business on the Internet.

Other activities have involved organising meetings and workshops, monitoring the follow up process to the 1995 World Social Summit for Development and lobbying activities in relation to the financing for development process and other social justice issues.

It is lobbying the troika for further debt relief.

Its success depends on market demand, not political lobbying.

Only such changes including lobbying reforms can restore effective governance.

Lobbying on behalf of girls, for 0.5 billion in 2001.

Despite lobbying by proponents, in December 2012, the proposal was rejected.

He later founded The Ashcroft Group, a Washington D.C. lobbying firm.

Politics In April 2013, a lobbying group called FWD.us (aimed at lobbying for immigration reform and improvements to education) was launched, with Drew Houston listed as one of the founders.

Connections are highlighted between Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), the lobbying arm of the largest drug companies in the United States, lobbying groups in Washington D.C., and the Congress.

NGOs, too, have an indispensable part to play in monitoring and lobbying.

This reduces the willingness of institutional investors to invest in counteracting insider lobbying.

Because insiders gain the full benefits that arise through lobbying for lax corporate governance rules, while their firms bear most of the costs of such lobbying, insiders have an advantage in the competition for influence over politicians.

When it comes to lobbying, money is not everything ideas play a big role, too.

The SDG framework has been the subject of a year of widespread consultation, lobbying, and debate.

But institutional investors usually do not provide a sufficient counter weight to lobbying by corporate insiders.

Second, like the financial sector, the tech industry is enormously influential politically through contributions and lobbying.

Their lobbying efforts worked well, first to deregulate, and then to have taxpayers pay for the cleanup.

After prolonged lobbying by the financial services industry, US President Bill Clinton repealed Glass Steagall in 1999.

Their lobbying, which is carried out at the expense of their companies, is subsidized by their shareholders.

A majority of the commissioners turned down the proposals after substantial lobbying from the mutual fund industry.

This caused considerable difficulties for American industry but at first their lobbying was largely ignored by government.

The results of the various awareness, information and lobbying activities of these NGOs were evidenced for the first time in the great number of female candidates who joined the election campaigns of June 2002, and their encouraging standings on the electoral lists.

Lobbying advocacy National Network of Women Ministers and Parliamentarians and the Association of Traditional Chiefs of the Niger.

The lobbying and civil society activities should also be encouraged and organized in developing countries so that their respective Governments are held accountable and their budgets transparent, ultimately preventing corruption and assuring that money is being spent on primary education and community development initiatives.

Uribe has spent weeks directly and personally lobbying key American legislators, and he is undoubtedly his own best advocate.

These relationships include political contributions, political approval for military spending, lobbying to support bureaucracies, and oversight of the industry.

So those concerned with job losses in US manufacturing should join the chorus lobbying for a much smaller fiscal deficit.

Moreover, those who make decisions for institutional investors often have interests that discourage lobbying for stronger constraints on corporate insiders.

It is also hoped that some lobbying could influence the legislation in defense of woman entrepreneur in the informal sector.

Another strategy trained women for participation in national politics and political parties by helping them develop advocacy and lobbying skills.

For this reason, US diplomats are lobbying hard for the OSCE, and Kazakhstan in particular, to be given a fair chance.

The US has been lobbying China for some time for economic policy changes aimed at stimulating domestic demand and open markets.

The SEC s rejection of the proposed rules demonstrates the power of concerted lobbying and that concentrated interests often trump diffuse benefits.

They are also lobbying to ensure that legislators recognize the importance of drafting of laws that guarantee and promote gender equality.

As was the case then, public outrage today is at a level that might well overwhelm the lobbying efforts of entrenched interests.

Indeed, it was the envy of many Westerners, who were fed up with self interested lobbying, pesky labor unions, and meddling politicians.

If ideas are like weapons in lobbying, it is important to appreciate the possible distortions in the market for their creation and diffusion.

The animal welfare movement, despite its broad public support, has been unable to compete in the arena of political lobbying and campaign donations.

The September summit would then become a lobbying bazaar as countries seek to promote their national ambitions or to protect their national interests.

(So, too, did the tobacco companies spend vast sums on political lobbying and bogus science to deny the links between smoking and lung cancer.)

Corporate insiders are an especially powerful lobbying group because of their ability to use some of the resources of the companies under their control.

In contrast to corporate insiders, institutional investors cannot charge the costs of lobbying to the publicly traded companies whose investor protection is at stake.

Now, if only the concepts of compromise and consensus were practiced as thoroughly as pure lobbying, we could see some sunbeams shining through again.

According to the Center for Public Integrity, from January 2005 through June 2006 alone, the pharmaceutical industry spent approximately 182 million on Federal lobbying.