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

If I were raped in Uppsala, where Assange is alleged to have committed his crime, I could not expect top prosecutors to lobby governments to arrest my assailant.

It has partnered with hundreds of community groups, research groups and environmentalists in cities and countries around the world to lobby Governments to retain public ownership and improve services.

Democratic governments are hampered by lobby groups, special interests, public opinion, party politics, and so forth, while Asian autocrats can make unpopular but necessary decisions.

Less fragmented industries also lobby better.

Tom met Mary in the hotel lobby.

Today, Erdoğan s government looks much more like the governments against which young Arabs rose, targeting journalists and accusing a high interest rate lobby of speculators of seeking to harm the Turkish economy.

Finally, the representative offered four recommendations mobilize public will and action provide adequate resources provide training and lobby Governments to take responsibility (such as fulfilling the promise of 0.7 GNP development aid).

Coordination française pour le lobby européen des femmes

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

Google should have something like this in their lobby.

Coordination francaise du lobby européen des femmes (2000 2003)

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.

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

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

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

The representative also noted that the consultation process that had provided the background to the report of the High Commissioner was useful in assisting civil society to lobby Governments and to have access to government positions which were made public as a result of the consultation.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Encourage and lobby developed countries to eliminate trade barriers and subsidiaries so as encourage economic opportunities, especially in agriculture, for rural and impoverished people.

The European Union delegation in Kabul came into this and hired me to work inside the Ministry of Public Health, to lobby this approach we succeeded.

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

But all of them make an economy less productive and redistribute wealth to small, coordinated groups with vested interests and a strong inclination to lobby the government.

Or, to put it differently, special interests have become so powerful and entrenched that any attempt at reform brings out a powerful lobby against it.

Meetings, workshops, luncheon discussions, participation in NGO Caucuses were as many occasions during committee Sessions and PrepCom meetings to promote discussions and lobby official delegates.

Governments 1981 2005 From 1981 to 1997, governments alternated between minority Labour governments and Conservative led centre right governments.

In 1988, a NGO, The Women's Lobby, approached the heads of Universities Board with an initiative to appoint Women Issue Advisors to the presidents of the all universities.