Sentences with phrase «like federal influence»

«My point is that there should be nothing like federal influence or power in elections anymore.

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For that reason, MillerCoors will take its turn at Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan on Tuesday in a long line of disgruntled subjects of banking oligarchy.According to the major US brewery, the Federal Reserve ought to toughen oversight of big banks such as Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan due to their negative influence over commodities like aluminum for beer cans.

Titles like the Ooni of Ife, Aareonokankafo of Yorubaland, Deji of Akure, Bobagunwa ilu Egba, and Alaafin of Oyo bring a great deal of respect, influence, and power in certain Nigerian communities.6 According to Nigerian scholar Ali Yahaya (2005: 242), traditional authorities «exercise considerable influence and are consulted by the federal, state, and local governments.»

Now, a shadowy group organized as New York City Is Not for Sale is attempting to influence this year's mayoral race with a secretive, independent committee much like those that have so tainted federal elections in recent years.

Another report by Kearns found that sugar industry advocacy groups influenced federal cavity prevention recommendations through strategies like getting sugar experts on federal panels concerning tooth decay.

Both factions would like to remove the taint of federal influence from state - based reform.

He then argues that unless the federal government is very careful, the forces and factors that led to these distressing spending patterns — like huge state budget deficits, local resistance to federal education guidance, and interest group focus on jobs — could similarly influence the Race to the Top, compromising its ultimate impact.

Fourth, it looks like the Common Core is a back - door way for the federal government to exert tremendous influence over education.

Beyond solar, BHE's utilities have also played a major role in expanding the Western Energy Imbalance Market, as well as having an outsized influence on reforming federal regulations like PURPA.

Hence, if you want to change directions, you have to influence the politics — you have to work to prevent the Koch Brothers from destroying California renewable energy initiatives, you have to work to eliminate federal subsidies and liability caps for fossil fuel projects (which would mean that oil drillers would have to post $ 10 billion bonds for every deepwater project they initiated), and — for academic scientists — you have to lobby your academic administrators to cut their ties with shady fossil fuel interests like BP and Exxon, and work to open renewable energy research institutes at America's leading universities.

To begin, it is nothing that a small province like Nova Scotia could ever influence because any framework for alternative business structures would need to be a national framework that comes from a federal approach.

Maybe if we all concentrate with Facebook to address this issue of the Russians meddling with our election process, we can conveniently forget the real (and much more alarming) issue of undue influence in our Federal Government by Big Money Interests like the MIC.