Sentences with phrase «lobbying by»

After heavy lobbying by the industry, the industry was exempted from the final regulations.

Rent control failed to pass in Orange County due to heavy lobbying by apartment owners who duped the public into voting against their best interests.

AB1506 was removed from the ballot thanks to lobbying by property owner associations around the state.

All of the lobbying by CREAcrats, OREAcrats (Ontario) etc. aimed at governments in favour of real estate agents» and their respective associations» concerns will pale in comparison with the public's concerns at the final arbitration point of such issues... the ballot box.

Professional psychology has employed a combination of direct lobbying by our Government Relations team, grassroots mobilization of practitioners through the Federal Advocacy Network, and participation in political giving facilitated by AAP / PLAN, psychology's national political action committee.

After many years of lobbying by the AECEO and other ECE sector stakeholders the Ontario Government provides a two dollar (over 2 years) wage increase for child care centre staff and licenced home child care providers.

However, lobbying by Apple and other US tech companies seem to have been successful in persuading the White House that taxing tech imports would be too damaging to the US economy...

Congress has been under intense lobbying by the tech and auto industries to take a hands - off approach to autonomous vehicles.

In the last five years, Congress has twice tried to fix the country's dysfunctional patent laws only to see those efforts founder at the hands of shrewd lobbying by reform opponents.

After much lobbying by driving schools, the State of Texas lawmakers agreed that many teenagers where escaping this educational requirement in addition to many of the new restrictions being placed on them.

This last provision was seen as the most important constraint on the original government proposals and was an amendment in consequence of much lobbying by proponents of free speech, including the comedian Rowan Atkinson.

Look for some serious alternative business structure lobbying by LegalZoom, Avvo and others in the coming year.

How this mission is standing up to lobbying by the publishers is discussed in http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/23/sum05/seringhaus.htm

However, UKIP justice spokesman Peter Jewell said: «Unlike the Tories, UKIP are not going to pander to powerful lobbying by insurers to make life impossible for claimants.

Haynes discussed lobbying by the railroad industry, in addition to safety and legal issues plaguing Amtrak.

Despite lobbying by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and the ABA Family Law Section, the reconciled bill still contains a repeal of the alimony tax deduction at Sec. 11051.

Today, the Vancouver Sun revealed the results of FOI requests related to behind - the - scenes lobbying by Western Hockey League officials in Kelowna, Kamloops, Cranbrook, Prince George, Vancouver and Victoria, which included letters addressed to Premier Christy Clark and cabinet.

The rule change was introduced by the Bar Standards Board after intensive lobbying by the Bar Council.

Effective lobbying by environmental organizations and other concerned European citizens might make this difficult to achieve.

For example, in cricket where, because of the Kolpak ruling by the European court, there has been an influx of players from countries with whom the EU has association agreements (who are currently protected as if EU nationals), lobbying by the domestic game's governing body, the England and Wales Cricket Board, has led to an announcement from the Commission that it will not issue any legal challenge to regulations which in the future would seek to limit the freedom of movement rights of nationals from the affected countries.

This change came after years of lobbying by judges across Canada, including Judge Charles Scullion of the Provincial Division.

As a result of successful lobbying by the CBA, the legislation governing EI benefits was amended in 2010 to permit those people who are self - employed to access maternity and parental leave benefits that previously were available only to employed associates.

In a section of the report titled «Tort Deform,» ATRA criticizes a «more activist strategy» of lobbying by the American Association for Justice and its state counterparts to enact laws more favorable to plaintiffs.

It was an unusual instance of a government which had clearly listened to a sustained period of well - argued lobbying by many — not least the Law Society.

However, as documents obtained by DeSmog UK in a Freedom of Information (FOI) request reveal, Shell and BP failed to join the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) Oil & Gas Methane Partnership — a UN-backed initiative to manage industry methane emissions — following lobbying by the UK Government for them to join as founding companies.

However, growing international demand for seafood and sustained lobbying by powerful commercial fishing interests in the 1980s led the British government to repeal various seabed protection measures.

After a long time of lobbying by grassroots groups (it was all the way back in 2008 that we saw the petition circulating to add the feature), we finally have a thorough set of directions for alternative transportation, rounding out the walk there and public transit features.

Lobbying by concerned citizens got various Austrian states to provide subsidies.

The Guardian suggests this could be seen as an example of lobbying by Ridley on behalf of he energy industry.

Then, after intense lobbying by the White House, Congress rejected a still weaker cap that did not actually require an absolute emissions reduction.

Lobbying by rich people is not common as the press are very savage here.i think it comes down to a genuine case of morality, the.

The deal, subject to vigorous lobbying by palm oil, pulp and paper manufacturers, will not apply to extensions for existing permits, or to permits that had been provisionally granted by the authorities but not finalized.

The EU must uphold its environmental credentials and stand up to the intense lobbying by the oil industry and the Canadian government,» said Franziska Achterberg of Greenpeace.

It would be natural to think that these efforts can't be all that significant, compared, say, to lobbying by «big business» that seems to upset the Democratic Party.

The announcement comes after intense lobbying by corporate executives, world leaders and even Pope Francis, who have urged Trump to keep the U.S. in the accord for the good of the American economy and the planet.

The only scientific society I know of that actually made an attempt to consider and judge the evidence was the American Physical Society - I suspect as a result of intense lobbying by sceptics within the society who argued that the usual approach was unscientific and hurt their credibility.

ReadyReturn survived corporate lobbying for one reason: Joe Bankman decided to make easy tax filing his personal mission, and he spent $ 30,000 to hire a lobbyist to counter lobbying by Intuit, the maker of TurboTax software.

The reason why is a uniquely American mix of lobbying by tax preparation companies — who worry about demand for their services — and anti-government sentiment.

ESTABLISHMENT HISTORY Following recommendations by FAO (1978), lobbying by sections of the local community and with the support of the NYZS, the site was designated in July 1987 through the Fisheries (Hol Chan Area Marine Reserve) Order (SI 57).

ESTABLISHMENT HISTORY In response to lobbying by local tour operators and conservationists, this site was designated in December 1991 (SI 167).

The nationwide battle over so - called «puppy mills» made its way to Carlsbad Tuesday night, where the City Council voted 3 - 1 to ban pet stores from selling dogs or cats after intense lobbying by a variety of animal rights groups.

But heavy lobbying by PETA and even the Virginia Animal Control Association, an industry trade group which opposes any benchmarks for shelters, caused VDACS to back down.

However, after lobbying by World Animal Protection and other animal welfare organisations, the government realised that their current efforts were fruitless.

After much lobbying by animal activists, the «28 day rule» was removed from the Code.

After lobbying by RAPS, Richmond became the first municipality to introduce a Spay and Neuter Bylaw for cats, and to ban the sale of puppies and dogs in pet stores.

The reforms resulted from significant lobbying by the financial services industry in seeking to prevent consumers who had the financial ability to pay a significant portion of their unsecured debt, such as credit cards from discharging their financial obligations.

The 2015 Liberal election platform had a proposal to limit the benefits of the 50 % employee stock option deduction by placing a cap of $ 100,000 on annual eligible stock option gains but this was dropped after intense lobbying by startups in the tech and resource industry who rely heavily on non-cash compensation such as stock options to attract much needed, specialized talent to their firms.

Registered plans operate under the FPR which was raised from 10 % to the current 30 % over time as a result of lobbying by the pension industry.

The U.S. drew up its PFIC rules — partly in response to lobbying by the U.S. mutual fund industry — to curb the ability of U.S. citizens» to gain tax deferral on undistributed income from foreign holdings.

There was a lot of lobbying by the insurance companies, by the big brokerage houses, because they didn't want this to go into effect..