Celebrities are for the most part airheads, true, but they're really good at passing the hat for lobbying funds. |
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The Bush administration has waged a relentless lobbying effort in the past month. |
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Of course, to prevent abuse and corrupt practices, lobbying activities should be carefully regulated, monitored and made transparent. |
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Through its regular conferences and successful lobbying, WEL raised public awareness about feminism in Australia. |
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The sugar industry is a lot like the lobbying industry, you reap what you sow. |
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A reeve near Morris said he felt his area lost a major new job-creating enterprise because of lobbying by Winnipeg. |
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The moral seems to be that it's smarter to spend your lobbying dollars at the state level than to risk it in an all-or-none federal bill. |
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The service provides information on advocacy and lobbying, training and information, and also respite care for carers in the home. |
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After the anti-vax lobbying effort, he said that he could hardly remember his illness. |
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It is hardly surprising that Irish auditors are lobbying to change the requirements on limited liability for their audit practices. |
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The RAC Foundation, the lobbying arm of the motoring organisation, is now calling for a rethink on speed cameras. |
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Residents are still concerned about the plans and are lobbying Councilors to reject them. |
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Private firms spend millions lobbying politicians to promote their interests. |
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Political leaders in the region are considering lobbying the Government to seek clarification. |
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The campaign was built through lobbying the council, holding meetings and marches on the estate. |
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After lobbying the employers' association we went to the rally at Congress House. |
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Perhaps it would be best to skip the Commons and start on lobbying the Lords. |
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We have had candlelight vigils, rallies, lobbying efforts, town meetings, teach-ins of various sorts. |
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Energy deregulation resulted from lobbying by executives and backhanders paid to politicians. |
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I also understand that the major telcos and cablecos are in a lobbying frenzy to prevent this as well. |
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The dispute then went quiet, but behind the scenes Boeing was lobbying hard. |
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Increasingly, clinical professors, after years of lobbying for equal status in the legal academy, are joining the tenure track. |
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The successful lobbying for deregulation of the electricity supply in California has had baleful consequences that hardly merit repeating. |
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Among the millions of dollars in political lobbying, the banksters are stopping progress on consumer bills. |
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Along with The Sierra Club, it is lobbying to have the fish farms moved inland, away from sea lion temptation. |
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Through lobbying government, educational workshops, videos and programs, they are working together to remove barriers to women in trades. |
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I have made an appointment with him, but in the meantime, you and I are going lobbying. |
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He is currently lobbying for another new megadairy that will use a twenty-six-acre lagoon and house approximately 7,000 dairy cattle. |
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He said he was undeterred by the lobbying and would continue to run, representing the interests of the community. |
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These offer the prospect of being able to mobilise grassroots lobbying muscle to influence policy makers. |
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His pronouncements will inspire a lobbying contest among the upscale interests to see who can extract the most boodle from the Treasury. |
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The society serves as a union of personalities lobbying for the success of the institution similar to the Philadelphia Orchestra. |
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The US state unleashed a decade of witch-hunting against the left, which hit even moderate black lobbying organisations. |
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Before his lobbying operation went south, he was an occasional guest at the White House. |
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After years of lobbying, successive governments inched towards a public ventilation of the reasons why so many innocent people suffered. |
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But it's not congressional ethics investigators who are most likely to frown on Daschle's lobbying vita. |
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Some people are lobbying for more non-specific holiday language at businesses or elsewhere. |
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Average taxpayers, after all, don't spend much time lobbying and cajoling politicians in the often distant state capital. |
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Greenpeace has been lobbying for ten years to have all plutonium treated as nuclear waste not as potential reactor fuel. |
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Parent groups and expert nutritionists are lobbying for the Scottish parliament to introduce the legislation immediately. |
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If Egan had simply made this argument and then left town, his lobbying effort might not have caught my notice. |
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He blamed the heavyweight lobbying power of the big banking institutions for the Government's decision to turn its back on post offices. |
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Campaigners are also lobbying the government to increase the percentage of organically farmed land. |
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So the entire brewing industry is under pressure and lobbying parliament, and generally being huffy. |
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Also, the government financed private sector lobbying for government defence contracts. |
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People lobbying for the project to proceed are abundantly justified in their impatience. |
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The 22-year-old arrived without huge fanfare or any of the media lobbying that normally accompanies the promotion of a fresh face. |
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For instance, a charity has to refrain from political advocacy, unless such lobbying activity is merely incidental to the charitable purpose. |
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Intense lobbying led to a new royalty for making player piano rolls, which was then extended to any physical manifestation of a song. |
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The problem for those seeking clarity is that much of the direct policy lobbying takes place in private. |
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Government may certainly accede to religious lobbying for secular reasons, as when it allows conscientious objectors out of the draft. |
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Thanks to some fancy political lobbying by the grape-growers, wine was exempted from the general interdiction against alcohol. |
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There is lobbying by some airlines for more consistent regulations, and a higher weight allowance for divers. |
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These proposals have more to do with rewarding campaign contributors and lobbying patrons than with economic stimulus. |
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Or, conversely, if lobbying should have tax benefits for charities, then why not for everyone else as well? |
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Clearly, Smith developed an analysis of lobbying that was the forefather of modern neoclassical political economy. |
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It was during this time that the lobbying reached a crescendo, and it paid off. |
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Despite the bad weather and the criticisms, the players were lobbying for it. |
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The Committee supports the need for a distinction to be drawn between such party-political activities and other types of lobbying activity. |
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The disagreement prompted lawmakers deliberating the controversial bill to bring the issue to a closed-door meeting on Thursday for lobbying. |
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More and more of my students seek careers in lobbying and public affairs from the get go. |
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Perhaps they were lobbying the relevant minister for more public monies to fund their good works. |
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Eco-activists lobbying the courts aside, most people show little concern over industrial pollution. |
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Will the government be gathering dossiers on members of the local women's cooperative for lobbying for federally funded child care? |
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Civil-political rights and economic-social rights demand very different kinds of expertness and methodologies for research and missions and lobbying. |
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A concerted communist attempt to oust Ross from the railways union was thwarted as a result of lobbying and branch stacking orchestrated by Ferguson. |
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As interest groups stepped up their lobbying, the political parties continued maneuvering in advance of a potential Senate vote to bar the filibusters. |
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American Citizens Abroad is a non-profit that keeps tabs on migratory Americans, however, with the goal of lobbying on behalf of their interests in Washington. |
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He might have overcome his drawl, lobbying past, and imperceptible poll ratings to win the GOP nomination. |
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A similar lobbying phenomenon occurred prior to the two conclaves of 1978 and there is no discernible evidence that it had any impact on the outcome. |
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Tech companies are irritated at the frivolous lawsuits filed by patent trolls and are lobbying hard to blunt the edge of the current US patent laws. |
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His bid for clemency failed despite frantic lobbying by his supporters. |
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Through Lifan's lobbying, we are moving to include polarimetry as well. |
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Lemkin died penniless at a bus stop in 1959, on his way to another day lobbying at the United Nations. |
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Hundreds of special interests soon buzzed round those dozens, pressing money into their hands, lobbying, cajoling, persuading. |
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Elements of the pro-Israel lobby have also been on Capitol Hill lobbying for a resumption of U.S. aid to Egypt. |
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Among the topics were personal experiences of coming out at work, the tick box approach to dealing with discrimination and the need to continue campaigning and lobbying. |
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They were lobbying to be considered as the natural warranters of Venezuelan rainforest protection and preservation by being original inhabitants of the land. |
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Despite several years of lobbying, so far, the MPVR has been unsuccessful in its attempt to pass a measure. |
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Gun rights groups immediately mounted challenges and have countered by lobbying for and passing legal expansions of gun rights. |
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Use him as the poster child for a nasty, devilish lobbying group being the de facto fourth branch of government. |
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Although he is a relative newcomer to the lobbying game, Livingston obviously knows his way around the halls of Congress and how to pitch for a client. |
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Lucilius vilified reprobate consulars such as Lucius Opimius and Gaius Papirius Carbo, also undisciplined tribes and dishonest political lobbying. |
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However, it would be much more difficult for the revolving door of lobbying and the military industrial complex to make multi-millionaires of generals and politicans. |
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So why, then, is Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel lobbying the Illinois legislature to funnel more people into prison for longer? |
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It will also mount a massive lobbying campaign in Brussels to harmonise European copyright with US law, arguing that in an MP3 world rights protection must be universal. |
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As a long-time Washingtonian, I know many lovely people who have gone into lobbying. |
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I am lobbying pretty heavily for a spicy cranberry jelly from a jar. |
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Walk down K Street in Washington DC or visit a law and lobbying firm in central Washington and you will see the congealed wealth of all this corruption. |
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He said that the two countries would co-ordinate their lobbying efforts. |
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An aide said Mr. Markey hoped to combat the tactic of astroturfing in which a professional lobbying effort is made to seem like a grass-roots movement. |
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To this end, GW has long offered a degree in political management that includes lobbying tips of the trade. |
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He's lobbying to make the working age and the voting age one and the same. |
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During that time, the amount of money for-profit education firms have spent on lobbying has skyrocketed. |
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There have been months of lobbying to ensure a Netherlander was appointed. |
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As he refused to accept public subordination, Lloyd George, despite lobbying from the King and Churchill, refused to invite him. |
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It uses direct action, lobbying, research, and ecotage to achieve its goals. |
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This leads to extensive lobbying that can block or water down government policies intended to prevent overfishing. |
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In 2009, there were an estimated 286 lobbying consultancies known to work in Brussels. |
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The company was one of the prime movers in lobbying for the passage of the act. |
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In the 2000s, some larger associations formed regional clubs for purposes including lobbying government bodies. |
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Agribusiness interests hold a large amount of influence over policy making, in the form of lobbying and campaign contributions. |
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It is also affected by the absence of political will and popular agitations and lobbying against free trade in domestic politics. |
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Secondly, the report showed early signs of lobbying existing, with the scale of the local infrastructure and ship building activity exaggerated. |
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This idea has been challenged given the current influence capitalist lobbying has had on policy in the United States. |
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The Albuquerque Tercentennial Committee is lobbying to hang portable lights on the Sandia Crest. |
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The American Gaming Association, an industry lobbying group, has also pushed back against the notion of oversaturation. |
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The organization will also be lobbying state governments to enact moratoriums. |
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The outcry from rural and exurban voters achieved what no amount of lobbying from environmentalists in Washington alone could have. |
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Whether lobbying Arab TV networks or chivvying politicians, those who loved Ken the most were adamant that his plight should never be forgotten. |
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But with GSM players lobbying hard for more spectrum, taking MVNOs on board now would be hara-kiri. |
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The process is not set up to deal with intensive corporate lobbying and so you end up with something being a standard that is not clear. |
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Larger unions also typically engage in lobbying activities and supporting endorsed candidates at the state and federal level. |
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The public was unconvinced of the virtues of rail privatisation and there was much lobbying against the Bill. |
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Energy in Depth, an oil and gas industry lobbying group, called the film's facts into question. |
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Congress on lengthening the barrier, but progress has been slow due to lobbying and lack of funding. |
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As a result of Jibrell's lobbying and education efforts, the Puntland government in 2000 prohibited the exportation of charcoal. |
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Thomson's energetic lobbying and networking proved effective in gaining acceptance of his instrument by The Admiralty. |
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In 2013 it was criticised for lobbying against carbon pricing in Australia. |
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The resulting NGO campaign against Shell's proposals included letters, boycotts which even escalated to vandalism in Germany, and lobbying at intergovernmental conferences. |
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Involving a massive shift of regulation from the national to the supranational level, globalization has opened up a vast new arena for such lobbying. |
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Meanwhile, British officials in Quebec began lobbying Native American tribes to support them, while the Americans attempted to maintain their neutrality. |
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Gingrich claims that he didn't register because he was not paid to lobby and was merely voicing his opinion as a citizen while CHT asserts it has never done any lobbying. |
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Sir, The BRC has succeeded in lobbying the ED to change the animal by-product regulations so retailers can dispose of low-risk material through less specialist channels. |
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Throughout the war Haig's sister Henrietta had been lobbying Evelyn Wood for her brother to have command of a cavalry regiment of his own when the war was over. |
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The bill was defeated amid lobbying by company loyalists and accusations of nepotism in the bill's recommendations for the appointment of councillors. |
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Constituents may meet their Members of Parliament here, even without an appointment, and this practice is one of the possible origins of the term lobbying. |
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Boulton spent much time in London lobbying for a contract to strike British coins, but in June 1790 the Pitt Government postponed a decision on recoinage indefinitely. |
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The council responded to lobbying and focused again on developing the airport, first by operating the airport at arms length via an independent management team. |
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After many months of watching its public image take a shellacking as a result of the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal, Congress finally started to move on lobby reform. |
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Better start lobbying our MPs, while they are still notionally local. |
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Local officials who have spent months lobbying federal and state lawmakers for a drinking water standard called the announcement by NTP a breakthrough. |
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Indeed, the examples illustrating the use of the presumptions in paragraph could be construed as creating an irrebuttable presumption of a lobbying purpose. |
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Casino owners are lobbying against the proposed antigaming law. |
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Another contributing factor may be lobbying by earlier immigrants. |
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The SFCA sets up several Committees to deliver its range of support services for SFCs as well as facilitating lobbying work with Central Government. |
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In the year following Eileen's death he published around 130 articles and a selection of his Critical Essays, while remaining active in various political lobbying campaigns. |
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After months of lobbying, the UK beef industry did succeed in securing a limited exemption, to permit deboning in butchers' shops as well as in licensed cutting plants. |
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So much lobbying, arm-twisting and brownnosing has been invested in this that any misgivings about the Beijing Olympics are seen as disloyal and unpatriotic. |
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Netball gained Olympic recognition in 1995 after 20 years of lobbying. |
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