It is lobbying the troika for further debt relief.

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

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.

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.

Its success depends on market demand, not political lobbying.

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

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

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

Only such changes including lobbying reforms can restore effective governance.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The Special Secretariat on Policies for Women and the Women's Caucus of the National Congress are lobbying for approval of these new pieces of legislation.

For example, the Institute for International Finance, a preeminent Washington, DC based lobbying group for large banks, consistently argues bail us out, or else face the consequences.

He oversaw a popular struggle for independence, advocating a peaceful resistance to Yugoslav rule and lobbying for U.S. and European support, especially during the Kosovo War.

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

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

Complexity and theories of change logic models and theories of change for advocacy campaigns are inherently complex for example protests lobbying media campaigns contribution to policy change.

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

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.

There has been a veritable avalanche of lobbying on this point, which has resulted in top officials moving slowly, for fear of damaging the economy.

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.

In Kenya, UNIFEM assisted HIV AIDS and women's networks in lobbying for a gender sensitive HIV AIDS control and prevention bill, which was submitted to Parliament.

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

And I thought, I'm buggered if I'm going to spend the rest of my life lobbying for these crummy governments to do what needs to be done.

Go to ClimateCrisis.org or CarbonCalculator.com and buy carbon credits. You could join other leaders in mandating, lobbying for mandated cap and trade in U.S. greenhouse gas reductions.

SAGE, Plan Guinée, APAC Guinée, etc) have been reinforced, and they are now actively participating in lobbying, awareness raising and promotion on behalf of education for girls.

As a result, the big transnational institutions are lobbying hard for a pan European approach to banking supervision and regulation (and implicitly for fiscal bailouts should that supervision and regulation fail).

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

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.

Certainly the US Congress was clueless its members were still busy lobbying for the government backed housing mortgage agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, thereby digging the hole deeper.

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

The US has traditionally been in the forefront of research and development in this field, but in recent years hydrogen has been elbowed aside by intense lobbying for other alternatives.

Politicians in both Hawaii and Guam have been lobbying hard to become the chosen destination for the carrier owing to the significant impact it would have on the local economy.