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

At the moment Congress was considering amendments to the Penal Code, and lobbying efforts were naturally concentrated there.

Lobbying is something that is going on all the time. It depends how you define lobbying.

Activities relevant to the Committee Provides support to indigenous organizations in their lobbying efforts towards national governments and international institutions.

Lobbying, to get what they want.

He started lobbying for equal rights.

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

They spent 440,000 a day lobbying congress.

When I first entered Parliament in 1970, I would not say that lobbying was in its infancy because lobbying goes back to the 19th Century and before, but there was less organised lobbying.

They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying.

One, they'd need to stop lobbying in Washington.

And so he started lobbying with several other,

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.

lobbying for mandated cap and trade in U.S. greenhouse gas reductions.

And lobbying to convince policymakers that more aggressive draconian copyright laws.

That must be it. Which girl was doing a little lobbying?

Entrenched interests (food processing companies, in the case of nutritional labeling) resist change with all of their lobbying efforts, but public outrage is too strong for them to win.

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

lobbying for these crummy governments to do what needs to be done.

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.

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

In fact, it spends more money lobbying than the next five lobbies combined.

There are now dozens of companies that depend upon lobbying for their very existence.

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

At the Centre apos s suggestion, the Secretariat has established a review and lobbying committee.

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.

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.

They constitute a small but well organized group that wields immense lobbying power to block efforts to limit CO2 emissions by putting a price on them, as the planned US cap and trade system would have done.

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.

They spend their time lobbying to make sure the planet heats up as fast it possibly can.

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

Parliamentarians by lobbying for their point of view. Members of Parliament are elected to represent their local constituents.

One might think that banks would counter balance the mutual fund industry s lobbying efforts, because the likely effect of forcing money market funds to pay for more of their systemic costs would be to expand funds flowing directly to banks.

These efforts should be accompanied by measures which enhance the logistical efficiency of importers and exporters in the land locked countries, including the provision of storage and handling facilities for transit cargo, improved procedures and lobbying for inland transport services.