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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Since it was first proposed by President Essebsi back in 2015, Nawaat has provided extensive coverage on the bill, including multimedia coverage of protests opposing the law, and the lobbying efforts by former Ben Ali era officials in support of the bill.

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

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.

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

I expected to hear about lobbying efforts and nutrition, but mostly I learned about supply chains. The discussion focused mainly on how food can be procured, prepared, and delivered within the constraints of pricing, availability, and each school district s facilities (which determine what kind of food they can prepare and serve).

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.