Sentences with phrase «lobby against government»

The pharmaceutical and healthcare industries use front groups disguised as «patients rights» advocates to market their products and to lobby against government policies that might affect their profits.

Of the two Tory abstainers, as a PPS until yesterday, Lee Scott, has no history of rebellion; meanwhile, Tracey Crouch, who also abstained, has still never actively voted in a division lobby against the government line.

The people who speak most often about the sanctity of human life should have been the very first to champion the right of people with AIDS to adequate healthcare rather than lobbying against government expenditure for AIDS research, as did the Moral Majority.

Of the six Tory rebels, most have quite a lot of «form» when it comes to walking through the lobbies against the Government line:

Stasburg of the RSA, which lobbies against government regulation, nonetheless said that for candidates to be electable in the city, especially Democrats, supporting rent regulation is mandatory.

to question the science linking secondhand smoke to health risks, and lobbied against government public health reforms.

Not exact matches

The PBMs» trade group lobbied hard against the provision and in the end won a concession: an amendment requiring the government to keep the PBMs» incentives and spreads confidential.

Sherman and his pharmaceutical company, Apotex, were registered to lobby the Prime Minister's Office months after Trudeau took over the role, according to government watchdog Democracy Watch, which filed the complaint against the billionaire.

China has given American investors and importers enough of a common interest to lobby to prevent the U.S. Government from intensifying its Cold War against China.

On the broadest social level, the ostensible «free market» lobbying effort sponsored by banks to shift the property tax onto labor and industry has become a campaign against government itself.

The top water bureaucrat in NSW, Gavin Hanlon, has been secretly recorded offering to confidentially share internal government information with irrigation lobbyists — documents he proposed to strip of government logos and share via a special Dropbox account — to assist their lobbying against the contentious Murray - Darling Basin Plan.

Humanists UK, which leads the national campaign against religious discrimination and segregation in schools, has stated that such a decision would ignore the evidence that the cap has boosted integration in faith schools and instead show that the Government has bowed to the demands of the religious lobby instead of sticking up for the interests of children.

If citizens from across the globe lobbied their governments and the international community to stand against the Rosia Montana Project, not only would this important heritage site be preserved — but from these lessons learned, other locations can be protected from similar exploitation.

But there is categorical evidence from NGOs and foreign governments that the UK lobbied hard against such an agreement being reached, opposing it at the last G20 finance ministers» meeting, and blocking any reference to it in the EU's pre-G20 position.

«The question is whether money taken from people against their will can be used to lobby the government in any form,» Giardin said.

Exile: the vested interests intent on protecting their local fiefdoms lobbied vary hard against the government consolidation bill, with lots of disinformation.

Now, even the fiscally conservative small business lobby, the National Federation of Independent Business, has joined progressive groups, unions and local government leaders, and come out against the plan.

From both a cost - savings perspective and a moral perspective, these companies should stand with survivors and help facilitate the healing process, instead of protecting institutions that put children in harm's way and lobbying against this legislation,» said Michael Polenberg, Vice President of Government Affairs at Safe Horizon.

Now even the fiscally conservative small business lobby, the National Federation of Independent Business, has joined progressive groups, unions and local government leaders that are coming out against the plan.

The government reform group noted that Lanza since his first run for state Senate in 2006 has accepted at least $ 113,000 in LLC money coming from real estate, lobbying and other interests — including $ 34,000 from Glenwood Management, which were players in the recent legal cases against now former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

«I was a minister throughout every day of John Major's government and I know how much that government was weakend by colleagues constantly going into the division lobby and voting against the government in the 1991 - 1992 period.»

Supporters of conservation brought up strategies to stop the sale of the island, including lobbying Congress to revoke the act putting Plum Island up for sale, designating the island as property for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services, selling it to New York State or a non-profit group that will focus on preservation, or — if necessary — filing a lawsuit against the government.

Environmental groups are still fighting the battle against the sonar, lobbying the government to curtail testing, at least during peacetime, or to at least ramp up testing gradually to give marine wildlife a better chance to flee affected areas.

Imran Khan, director of the Campaign for Science and Engineering (CaSE), which has led the lobbying against the caps, said: «I'm delighted that the government and the UK Border Agency in particular have listened and responded to our concerns.»

The White House indicated that the president felt the need to personally lobby the Senate against Senator Hoeven's amendment because it did not provide for a means of review by appropriate agencies of the federal government.

We will maintain pressure on government to reduce your workload and share best practice and continue to lobby against funding cuts.

According to the flyer for the event, speakers included Assemblyman Kip Bateman (regularly endorsed by NJEA), two officers from Save Our Schools - NJ (which partners with NJEA to lobby against testing and charter schools), Mark Weber (aka Jersey Jazzman, a fervent opponent to accountability), and Deborah Cornavaca, Associate Director of Government Relations at NJEA.

It is why natural - gas extraction — the controversial practice known as fracking — has been virtually free of environmental regulation since 2005, and why government - owned car companies get to use taxpayer money to lobby against stricter fuel - economy standards proposed by the government.

The Partnership for Fair & Open Skies, a lobbying group founded by the Big 3 U.S. carriers and unions to push for government action against the Gulf carriers, issued its own statement calling for its opponents in the open skies dispute — including the U.S. Travel Association, JetBlue and FedEx — to condemn Al Baker's comments.

Exxon said it cut off funding for some groups opposed to climate change in 2005, but the oil giant continued to support the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)-- groups that have lobbied against climate - related government policies.

This does not mean that those nations, whose populations and governments have already been scared out of their wits by decades of fear mongering against nuclear power by green lobby groups, etc. will follow suit right away.

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.

Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC) is the leading global charity dedicated to the conservation and protection of whales and dolphins, defending them against the many threats they face through campaigns, lobbying, advising governments, conservation projects, field research and rescue.

Industry should play its part in the fight against climate change by persuading governments to aid carbon cuts rather than lobbying against them, the UN secretary - general told a business conference on Sunday.

As many commentators have noted, there seems to be somewhat of a disconnect when companies that are out trumpeting their green message to consumers are also furiously lobbying the government against imposing higher fuel efficiency standards.

«The simplest thing I can say is that we are going to work with local, state, regional and national government groups and look at what we can do in the courthouse,» said Vivian Stockman, of the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, which lobbied against the rule change.

Canadian Bar Association president Fred Headon raised concerns about the matter over the weekend, and The Advocates» Society released a letter it sent Harper saying «there is no substance» to the government's criticism that McLachlin lobbied against Nadon's appointment and that she improperly interfered in a matter before the court.

Goldfinger Injury Lawyers has worked to lobby government in order to establish even harsher penalties against distracted drivers because we've seen how these accidents can change peoples» lives along with their family dynamic.

I can't remember a new government stumble in Heath as badly as Senator Fiona Nash defunding the Alcohol and other Drugs Council of Australia (ADCA), siding with the food industry against public health, trashing the arrangements that Labor had made to reduce the impact of chronic disease, protecting her advisor who turned out to be associated with the lobbies.

It is too late to successfully lobby the government against this move; the die is cast.

As President Vicki Cox Golder writes in her column this month, there are people today who seek to weaken government backing of the housing industry, and NAR can be expected to put the full force of its lobbying power against such forces.