Sentences with phrase «business lobby over»

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But to the apparent surprise of the Trudeau government, and, frankly, to some of us who pay attention to these things, the opposition and the business lobby have decided to take a stand over a business owner's right to squeeze as much as he or she can from the tax system.

Over at the National Federation of Independent Business, the conservative lobbying group, tax counsel Chris Whitcomb says that the most urgent business in Washington is to postpone the tax cuts for evBusiness, the conservative lobbying group, tax counsel Chris Whitcomb says that the most urgent business in Washington is to postpone the tax cuts for evbusiness in Washington is to postpone the tax cuts for everybody.

While collecting this type of information can be valuable to business owners, if the collective outcry over the NSA's data - mining efforts is any indicator then customers may have a negative knee - jerk reaction to having their movements tracked and recorded every time they go to a coffee shop or pass through a hotel lobby.

This strategy largely writes off the non-evangelical white working - class in the hopes of winning over nonwhite voters and it aligns Republican policy even more closely with the policy preferences of the Washington business lobbies.

Gaskin presides over a large multi-faceted business empire comprised of trade, propaganda and lobbying organizations, all with one purpose in mind: allowing uneducated women like herself to provide substandard medical care to pregnant women while ignoring the growing pile of tiny bodies.

Businesses, being businesses, will invest these massive amounts of money because the politicians, being beholden to them for their positions, and for lucrative «revolving door» lobbying or consulting positions, post-office, will pass measures that pay back those businesses many times over through legislation and direct government spending that favors those conBusinesses, being businesses, will invest these massive amounts of money because the politicians, being beholden to them for their positions, and for lucrative «revolving door» lobbying or consulting positions, post-office, will pass measures that pay back those businesses many times over through legislation and direct government spending that favors those conbusinesses, will invest these massive amounts of money because the politicians, being beholden to them for their positions, and for lucrative «revolving door» lobbying or consulting positions, post-office, will pass measures that pay back those businesses many times over through legislation and direct government spending that favors those conbusinesses many times over through legislation and direct government spending that favors those contributors.

Business secretary Vince Cable said he and chancellor George Osborne had come to a «common view» over the need for reform after a year of intensive lobbying against the changes by the City.

NEW YORK — Todd Howe called Joe Percoco «the closest thing to a brother I ever had,» and an ally whose influence over state government proved beneficial to Howe's lobbying business.

The leader of the Rochester Business Alliance — a business lobbying organization that the lieutenant governor is rumored to be one day take over — announced this morning she would delay her retirementBusiness Alliance — a business lobbying organization that the lieutenant governor is rumored to be one day take over — announced this morning she would delay her retirementbusiness lobbying organization that the lieutenant governor is rumored to be one day take over — announced this morning she would delay her retirement a year.

Of course, given Daddy's lobbying business, which relies heavily on Daddy's good relation with the despicable Silencer Silver, Gillibrand chose Daddy's Business Bucks over the defense of women and disclosure of the use of taxpayebusiness, which relies heavily on Daddy's good relation with the despicable Silencer Silver, Gillibrand chose Daddy's Business Bucks over the defense of women and disclosure of the use of taxpayeBusiness Bucks over the defense of women and disclosure of the use of taxpayer money.

It is true that while Mr. D'Amato remains well - regarded in some circles of the party, he has been more bi-partisan than some Republicans would like in recent years as his lobbying business has grown, and he did support Mr. Cuomo over Mr. Paladino in 2010, but so did many, many others.

Perfectly suited for intimate business meetings, grand celebrations and gatherings of every kind, business facilities at the hotel include the ballroom, located at the lobby level, with natural light and views out over the Mediterranean and two boardrooms.

Right now business and fossil fuel lobby groups have a lot of influence over politicians as we all know.

The battle has exposed deep rifts within the Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers and other business lobbies, with companies leaving their trade organizations almost daily in disputes over climate change legislation.

In the back drop of the spectacle at DEA headquarters, dozens of hemp business owners in town attending the HIA convention over the weekend fanned out across Capitol Hill to lobby lawmakers in support of hemp legislation introduced by Representatives Ron Paul (R - TX) and Barney Frank (D - MA) that would permit states to cultivate non-drug industrial hemp under state industrial hemp programs.

The neoliberal agenda is putting profit before people, big fossil fuel businesses are having overbearing power over politicians, pushing private greed over public interest, and undermining the fundamental principles of democracy with their aggressive lobbying efforts.

The lobbying battle over the EU 2030 climate and energy will keep unfolding over the coming months, extending to a new Parliament and a new Commission and it is crucial that Europe's decision - makers set the goals for the continent according to what science requires and to the principles of climate justice, and not to the wishes of big business.»

Moreover, the legislation puts the interests of the oil and gas lobby over millions of citizens, thousands of businesses and hundreds of coastal communities who spoke out against new offshore drilling during the federal government's extensive planning process.

So in this topsy - turvy world, who knows, but you would think that with the amount of business that has gone over to Cuba since President Obama's executive orders and the additional amount of capital that's been invested going forward, you would think that it would be very difficult for whoever it is to be able to just undo all that without a concerted effort from the business lobby to prevent that from happening or at least slow that down.

The Canadian Federation of Independent Business has been lobbying at the federal, provincial and local levels of government on behalf of small and medium sized businesses, (SME's) for over 35 years and provides the following statistics:

SUMMARY * Career characterized by over 20 years of professional experience and reputation for expertise and innovation in promoting and managing green and sustainability programs for large institutions and enterprises * Proficient in new business development, operations, proposal writing, compliance and negotiations with Federal, State and Local Governments * Considered a Subject Matter Expert including testifying and lobby...

This follows in line with psychology and other mental health trade organizations» promotion and lobbying for more and more business in the family courts over the past two decades, performing a panoply of various and sundry services such as non-lawyer mediation, «parenting plan development», acting as case managers or special masters or «parenting coordinators», doing custody evaluations, opining as litigant - hired expert witnesses and consultants, managing supervised visitation centers, teaching parenting classes, and so forth.

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.