Sentences with phrase «lobbying system not»

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Yet in spite of this power, most S&P 500 companies lack a formal system of lobbying oversight and don't fully disclose how monies are being spent, particularly through third - party organizations like trade associations.

In a week when business lobby groups are appearing before the House of Commons Committee on Finance and calling for more tax breaks, the federal R&D Panel appointed a year ago released a very good report saying Canada's very generous system of R&D tax incentives haven't been effective and what we need instead are more direct grants -LSB-...]

The expenditures upon which we seek a report are those that Congress has said to not warrant a deduction as an ordinary and necessary business expense, namely, lobbying, participation in the political system by supporting or opposing candidates for office, and trying to influence the general public or segment thereof as to elections, legislative matters or referenda.

The burden falls on the GOP establishment and conservatives to tell the employer lobbies that the party of lower taxes, lower government spending, and lower regulation will not design an immigration system to ensure that low - skill workers never get a raise.

Not only are we up against a school district food system that is set in it's ways, we're battling a larger food culture that values high calorie, highly processed convenience food AND huge food lobbies that have great influence over Congress and the legislation that is passed.

«In the current political campaign environment, the presidential campaign finance system doesn't work at all and can not work,» said Craig Holman, who lobbies Capitol Hill on ethics and campaign finance issues for the nonprofit consumer advocacy group Public Citizen.

Can a democratic system be structured in a way that doesn't rely on ethics or brute - force, police - state-esque measures to disable lobbying?

The report, released by State Senator Daniel Squadron, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh, also found that half of the area's New York City Housing Authority buildings did not have security cameras and many intercom systems and lobby locks were broken.

MTA chairman Joe Lhota defended his continuing position as a registered lobbyist, but said he has not lobbied since he was appointed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to head the mass transit system.

He is not lying when he professes to have lobbied for an international regulatory system since well before the present crisis.

The online shines above that of most sandboxers however - taking a group of friends to raid a hideout is great fun, not so much as a lone wolf, although the posse system works well in public lobbies.

And the multiplayer is tons of fun, but a lobby system is something to be desired at times, when playing with only friends isn't an option.

It'd be amiss to not mention the game features a loot box system for cosmetic upgrades for the lobby area and your player profile, but none of it asks for any real cash — it honestly all feels quite innocent and agreeable.

It's just that Tekken 7 doesn't do anything as creative as the virtual lobbies of Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2 or the gear system in Injustice 2.

Albert Shanker commented that while revamping NAEP didn't top the education lobbies» agenda for the ESEA (Elementary and Secondary Education Act) reauthorization cycle then under way, strengthening the assessment system was «one of the most important things we can accomplish in this round» of federal education legislation.

This explains how the system isn't set up to put kids first but other lobbying interests, not only employee unions but interests like textbook manufacturers, Austin said.

I am pleased to see a document, such as this, which speaks to something as important as our education system that uses proper scientific citing of bona fide papers on the subject as opposed to emotional arguments meant to sway voters or think - tank «papers» from thinly (or otherwise) veiled lobby groups whose intent is NOT the betterment of our educational system but rather the increase of funneling of tax - payer dollars away from socially responsible infrastructures (like education) and towards already wealthy private corporations.

evo isn't lobbying to restore widow - making on - limit handling, but now electronic stability systems can smooth on - limit behaviour, it's surely unnecessary to erase the last traces of a dynamic fingerprint that makes your car unique.

Illinois is now the most humane state in the U.S., according to the Animal Legal Defense Fund, an organization that fights to protect animals through the legal system, but she says the state wasn't so pet - friendly when she first kicked off her lobbying efforts.

You can't browse lobbies, either, so you're completely at the mercy of a quick match system and a peer - to - peer connection type, unless you're playing as the killer in which case you get to start a lobby and wait for others to join.

It's P2P, connection drops happen all the time and it doesn't even have a lobby system.

Onrush's Stampede System ensures that no matter how long you go before exploding you'll always reappear alongside your team in the centre of the action, ensuring that the only time you'll ever take a breather is in the lobby in between matches; there's also not enough time to scratch your bum in between rounds as once one comes to an end the next one begins.

If only getting into one of those battles didn't involve fumbling about with the game's clunky multiplayer lobby system.

It's all seamlessly integrated via a drop in / out system which can be adjusted to allow the general public, just friends or nobody in while you're playing the campaign and it means you don't have to set up a separate lobby!

Not an MMO (it does have 4 player multiplayer and a lobby system to find players so more so than some but not massive), but a great ARPG anywNot an MMO (it does have 4 player multiplayer and a lobby system to find players so more so than some but not massive), but a great ARPG anywnot massive), but a great ARPG anyway.

You won't find a lobby system or have to wait for things to happen.

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe doesn't have a lobby system for online matchmaking, so when you want to play with a friend, they have to attempt to join your game in progress.

What I did notice however was when I tried the online part of the game for the first time there wasn't a lobby system, which in my mind every fighting game should have by now.

The lobby system is a bit out of wack as well, allowing people to start games with lopsided teams in ranked matches, and it would be nice to create a lobby with your friends and not have to quit out and regroup every time.

Lobbies at launch only support inviting one friend to play with you, and even with that minimal implementation I could not successfully start a single match through the lobby system in my first 72 hours with the game.

There are no lobbies or matchmaking systems in place, leaving players to find themselves often racing solely against ghosts of other competitors, and not an actual player riding in their game with them.

Plus, the lobby system and the way you find a game, after the game shipped so many of those things were frustrating to me that if I look at my friend's list on Xbox Live and don't see seven people on playing Gears (presumably together) my likelihood of logging in diminishes even further.

Other modes include challenge mode that sees you try to get a place on an online leaderboard, online multiplayer (your best bet with this is to get a couple friends to buy the game at the same time with you, because this game uses a lobby system and it's wasn't populated at the time of review), quick race, and 2 to 4 player split screen local multiplayer... pause for effect....

There have been talks about implementing a lobby system, but it's not in the game as of the time of this posting.

like a «memorial hall» with textures from the Dreamcast online Lobby playing the original lobby theme «day dawns» As PSO in that days was more gathering in ONE start lobby (not wide spreaded like in PSU) and just chatting (a lot of friends called it the world best chat system) I remeber a lot of weekends we gathered like 7 pm, chatting in the lobby with friends all over the world and made a quick forrest run at 1 am, «just to have played» It would bring back memories and would be kind of a Wgive sth back» to us players from the first days.

Answer: The concept of reducing fossil fuel burning has been slowed down by well meaning environmentalist movements lobbying for systems that do not work such as wind and solar.

Or look at the gaming of the peer review system — not by mainstream climate scientists, but by fringe researchers with links to oil - funded lobby groups:

The reasons are that I do not trust the insurers to put their profit motive aside enough when lobbying to structure any such no - lawyer system, and I do not trust the government to calibrate any such no - lawyer system properly.

The reasons are that I do not trust the insurers to put their profit motive aside enough when lobbying for any such no - lawyer system, and I do not trust the government to calibrate any such no - lawyer system properly.

Throughout the consultation process the claimant lobby has expressed concerns about the viability of a new system being launched for 70 % of the accident claims market which has not been piloted nor based on empirical evidence.

Beyond the individual pain, the Budget has taken a wrecking ball to the health system — not to mention years of hard work on the national health reform negotiations — and taken us back to the bad old days of blame game and cost shifting, with Premiers calling for voters to lobby the Coalition party room and Senate to defeat the cuts.