Sentences with phrase «number of interest groups»

«I'm sure you know about the privatization of the power sector; your old friends NEPA or Power Holding Company of Nigeria have been sold to a number of interest groups.

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«In soliciting investments in the Fake Funds, CASPERSEN made the following false representations to investors, among others: in recognition for his prior work with Park Hill Group, CASPERSEN had been offered a «friends and family» investment allocation in a security that was allegedly offered by a private equity firm; CASPERSEN was personally investing in the security, and offering it to his family and a limited number of friends; the investment was a credit facility secured by a portfolio of assets owned by one of the Legitimate Funds; the investor would receive quarterly interest payments, ranging from 15 to 20 percent; the investment was practically risk - free, as the loaned funds would remain in a bank account; the investor could withdraw the principal at any time with 90 days» notice; and investor funds should be wired to one of the Fake Fund Accounts.

Representing one of its first major overseas acquisitions, the company's wholly - owned subsidiary, Woodside Energy (USA) Inc. reached agreement with the Marathon Oil Company — part of the USX - Marathon Group which is a unit of the USX Corporation in Pittsburgh — for the acquisition of interests in a number of deep water exploration acreage blocks in the Gulf.

It is owned by Roark Capital Group, an Atlanta - based private equity group that has interests in a number of food and service brands including Arby's, Cinnabon, McAlister's Deli and WingGroup, an Atlanta - based private equity group that has interests in a number of food and service brands including Arby's, Cinnabon, McAlister's Deli and Winggroup that has interests in a number of food and service brands including Arby's, Cinnabon, McAlister's Deli and Wingstop.

Their interest is driven by a number of factors, including the steep price of property in China's major cities, such as Beijing and Shanghai, says the Imperio Group, which serves Chinese clients in...

Spreading small costs over a large number of people to deliver large rewards to a tiny group is the textbook definition of special interest legislation.

Robertet, the French flavours and fragrances group, has seen a sharp rise in its share price this year helped by renewed interest in the sector due to a number of high profile transactions.

«There are a number of individuals, groups and companies interested in Everton and genuine conversations are taking place about future ownership and future investment.

The last group of props that came out after the latest trailer was released included a number of interesting options — will Kylo Ren turn to the light side?

So yesterday the SNA went to Capitol Hill for a «national day of action» to protest the block grant proposal, and it was joined by a number of prominent congressional Democrats, the Food Research & Action Center, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and other advocacy groups.

These campaign ‐ style battles are being waged through an increasing number of «veiled actors» third ‐ party coalitions with misleading names that ask voters to «Save New York» or fight for «Fiscal Fairness» without revealing the powerful interest groups behind these messages.

Meetup.com helps interest groups formed on the Web to get together in person — and a remarkable number of groups do so for civic purposes.

Numbers - crunching poobah Bill Mahoney of the New York Public Interest Research Group has compile another one of his patented spreadsheets on campaign finance filers up until this point.

Add in the video clips created by media outlets, interest groups and citizens, and the amount of political video available is going to be mind - boggling — we have to assume that the number of clips related to the ’08 elections will rise into the millions or tens of millions.

Today, Renzi's PD is a (not particularly comfortable) home for a number of ideological and interest groups, frustrated activists and local leaders exerting a strong micro-level power (Calise 2013).

The New York Public Interest Research Group found that the total number of bills passed by state lawmakers stayed at historically low levels, but at the same time the size of the budget document increased.

Nick Herbert, a leading Tory MP for the in campaign, announced a number of MPs from the Fresh Start group would be backing remain, causing Stewart Jackson, a Tory outer, to reply: «Interesting but none are the founders of Fresh Start & therefore probably not «leading members (sic)» Nick but good spin.»

The New York Public Interest Research Group is out with an exhaustive, numbers - based analysis of the 2012 legislative session this morning.

Andy has shown a keen interest in the Middle East since his election in 1997, and was involved in a number of All Party Parliamentary Groups related to the region.

Already people with diabetes represent a substantial interest group within a parliamentary constituency with around a third of constituencies in England having a higher number of people with diabetes than the size of the current MP's majority.

At 11 a.m., the Patriotic Millionaires Board Chair Morris Pearl and a number of members of the group arrive at Albany Airport's «Million Air» for a daylong push at the Capitol for closing the carried - interest loophole.

The Cornerstone group was a group which this site took a lot of interest in at the Leadership election, as they caries a fair number of votes in that election.

Sue Lerner, with Common Cause, says currently most contributions for campaigns for statewide offices, as well as the Senate and Assembly, come from a limited number of zip codes, many from the area right around the Capitol, where major lobbying and other interest groups have their offices, as well as the Upper East and West Sides of Manhattan, and Wall Street, and «not from the actual voters».

Beyond the Women's Equality Agenda, a number of bills being tracked by some of Albany's most prominent interest groups have yet to be acted upon.

Warren has a number of skeletons in her closet, including close links to radical left - wing pressure groups and a record of helping corporate interests suppress asbestos liability lawsuits.

Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren has a number of skeletons in her closet, including close links to radical left - wing pressure groups and a record of helping corporate interests suppress asbestos liability lawsuits.

«This raises a number of issues,» said Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group.

The New York Public Interest Research Group totaled up the number of fundraisers held near the Capitol during the 2017 session.

«What we're seing is a growing trend in both the number of gifts and the total value of those gifts given by powerful special interest groups to state lawmakers.»

We bring you these numbers thanks to a legislative session breakdown by Bill Mahoney of the New York Public Interest Research Group.

The number of national interest groups has increased, as have their tools to connect their supporters with Congress, in what Goldschmidt calls «one - click advocacy.»

«Given the mobilization of creationist interest groups around this issue and anti-evolution public opinion — particularly in states with a high number of conservative Protestants — you might think that this would lead to greater success in turning these bills into laws, but this has not been the case,» Johnson said.

«Manufactured diamonds have a number of physical properties that make them very interesting to researchers working with transistors,» said Yasuo Koide, a professor and senior scientist at the National Institute for Materials Science leading the research group.

«David [Baulcombe]'s group developed a number of very interesting gene silencing systems at the time and Olivier was very good at seeing connections between these and designing elegant experiments to test them,» Hamilton, today a lecturer at the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom, writes in an e-mail.

It now forms a special interest group of the British Ecological Society, and although its numbers fluctuate, the population sample size has been fairly stable over its entire history.

A: Other groups at NIH have already implemented a number of initiatives spurred by the 2012 biomedical research workforce report, and we'll be very interested in the outcomes of some of those.

Recognising that the sometimes conflicting interests of a number of Whitehall departments must be squared, the government is having to establish an interdepartmental action group.

They acknowledge that their analyses covered narrow groups with particular types of fertility patterns, and relatively small numbers in the groups of interest, so the results should be interpreted with caution and taken as evidence of cause only for this small group.

Don't sell yourself — or your dating pool — short «I was pleasantly surprised to find the vast number of men in the age group I would consider dating were also interested in my age group,» says Smith.

Then a group of evenly numbered male and female singles meet at a restaurant or bar and pair up for six minutes of small talk — the idea being that six minutes of conversation is enough time to decide whether or not you're interested in talking to someone again.

The fast pace of the society does not make it easy to meet and connect with others who have the same interests as you, especially for those special groups of people, such as bisexual people.While one of the intersting thing is that there are increasing numbers of sinlge bisexual people seeking bi couples.

The interesting thing about this group of sites is that users can «plug in» a number of passions network sites into their account so that they can contact the users from a number of sites and see updates from those sites too.

In addition, a number of singles groups, churches, as well as special interest organizations in your nearby region are likely to have members you would want to see.

In fact, an increasing number of younger men are now looking to date older women simply because they don't find women of their age group as interesting and fascinating as the older ones.

Lucky Number Slevin is populated by a group of dislikable individuals, although each possesses the virtue of being interesting.

Not only has it outsourced the number - gathering to a prominent interest group in the field, it has allowed that interest group to add its own spin, then issued the results in the guise of a government statistical publication.

School of One places students in larger classes or smaller groups or in a one - on - one instruction situation, either by a tutor or online, depending on the number of others in the class who are at a similar price point and share interests.

The state's Republican Governor, George Deukmejian, its Democratic state superintendent, Bill Honig, and a number of business and other interest groups...

In the preschool realm, the U.S. Department of Education has it outsourced the number - gathering to a prominent interest group in the field and it has allowed that interest group to add its own spin.

«We are already in discussion with a number of groups who have a particular interest in community integration, and we anticipate that more will now follow in their footsteps.»