Sentences with phrase «of powerful interest groups»

Many Australians are distrustful of powerful interest groups and not easily persuaded to exercise muscle over the powerless.

Opposing the convention is a broad array of powerful interest groups — including most of state's unions and environmental advocates — who argue that it would give business interests and other well - financed groups an avenue to weaken existing labor and environmental protections.

In sum, proxy access is bad public policy, unsupported by the empirical evidence, and the pet project of a powerful interest group.

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Offers a unique history of US health care that has never been told in depth through analysis of the centers of national politics, powerful interest groups, and even individual insurance companies and physicians» offices

That depends on how effective an interest group is in winning the support of powerful political patrons.

But the positions of these interest groups and powerful individuals says nothing about the popularity of this measure with what should be the most important constituency — the American people.

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I have already indicated my own belief that ideas and ideals which offer hope of rescue or fulfillment to persons or groups where their vital interests are at stake can be powerful sources of constructive, even revolutionary, change.

Powerful interest groups in many places, especially large cities, are often antagonistic to the traditional religious values of family, sexual self - control, objective morality, and individual responsibility.

New technologies centered around the increasingly more powerful personal computer are enabling smaller entrepreneurs and public interest groups to publish newsletters and produce radio and video cassettes of an «alternative» provenance that criticizes the mainstream.

As it turns out, they are talking more and more about religious revival, about the rise of new religions, about the worldwide resurgence of fundamentalism, about the enormous impact religion is having on world affairs and, in this country, about the increased prominence of the Religious Right, a movement which may already be the most powerful special interest group in America and which has given ample notice that it doesn't consider its job anywhere near done.

Today's issues are less clear - cut than civil rights or the war in Vietnam; there are no great leaders to rally us, no powerful self - interested groups like the draft resisters of the war period with which to ally ourselves.

The ECA is the successor organisation to the G - 14 group of Europe's most powerful clubs and now represents the interests of 220 clubs from 53 countries.

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.

«It's disappointing that Governor Cuomo and some state lawmakers — pushed by powerful, labor - backed special interests — continue to pursue the use of tax dollars to fund partisan political campaigns,» said the group's executive director, Brian Sampson.

This is shaping up to be a showdown between the developer, The Related Companies (and other powerful developers with similar interests) who will be backed by the Bloomberg administration and a coalition of Bronx elected officials and community groups.

«When gifts are exchanged, a feeling of gratitude is natural, but voters should be concerned how policymakers show their gratitude towards powerful interest groups.»

State disclosure reports released Tuesday independently confirm what CalNewsroom.com first reported last December: the names of 18 state lawmakers who relaxed on the beaches of Maui with Sacramento's most powerful special interest groups.

And so the two houses of the Legislature aligned against each other, each backed by a powerful interest group: charter school advocates who have contributed generously to Senate Republicans (and Gov. Andrew Cuomo) and teachers» unions that are core supporters of Assembly Democrats, and see charter schools as a persistent threat.

For the first time in recent memory, the unions were outspent by a directly opposing interest group, and divided, after Cuomo brought some of their most powerful representatives into his decision - making process.

Special interest groups, party political committees and powerful Super PACs that raise unlimited amounts of money are investing heavily in Buerkle and Maffei — and encouraging people like Broich and Dighe to follow their lead.

«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.»

The teachers union, considered by many to be «the most powerful interest group in the Capitol,» has stepped up its political giving in the wake of Vergara v. California, a landmark court ruling that could ultimately throw out California's teacher tenure system.

Solving the first problem would be straightforward, but solving the second would require a fundamental reform of the system and dislocations in practices that are dear to powerful interest groups.

Self interest is of course a very powerful force, yet it leaves out our deep and passionate desires to be part of a group, to lose ourselves in something larger than ourselves.

As a part of the FriendFinder Network, JFF offers access to thousands of registered members, and powerful tools for making connections within the Jewish community, like blogs, interest groups, and an online magazine.

It will raise costs; undermine efficiency; block rich instructional options; restrict school choice and parental influence; and strengthen the hand of other interest groups, including but not limited to already too - powerful teachers unions.

Having financed his first election campaign completely out of his deep pockets, Bloomberg was unencumbered by debts owed to the system's entrenched interest groups, including the powerful union representing 80,000 teachers.

The CFE, which had begun as a modest public - interest group in 1993 by Robert Jackson, then president of one of the city's 32 community school boards, and Michael Rebell, the attorney for the same school board, had grown into an impressively powerful education lobbying organization.

Our plan is grounded in the following two premises: 1) When purposefully synchronized with one another across multiple forms of media («cross-media»), children's and adolescents» exposure to high quality youth - oriented social and ethical story content, i.e. stories of substance specifically about character development, compassion, and courage (CCC), is a powerful way to promote youth academic achievement and ethical values; 2) Especially if these stories, told and «read» across media, in their various genres (human interest, biography, history and historical fiction, civic engagement, coming of age, social change, spiritual awakening, moral issues, etc.), are «taught» by «educators» (broadly defined) using an «evidence - based» pedagogy that A) makes use of peer to peer, and adult facilitated group discussion and debate as a primary form of instruction, and B) takes advantage of access to the texts of the story that are made available cross-media (narratives, scripts, videos, etc.) to foster students» critical thinking and ethical reflection skills.

A constellation of interest groups, including education schools, powerful foundations like Carnegie and Rockefeller, and a variety of professional associations, has been urging states to adopt stricter licensing and certification requirements for teachers.

While AB 934 was once an honest attempt to support effective teachers and prioritize quality in California's education system, the bill is now the product of backroom deals in the state capital with the state's most powerful special interest groups.

Nevertheless, powerful interest groups were able to use the climate of urgency created by the report to get their own preferred policies enacted, even when the policies were not recommended by Risk.

Making an issue of using test scores to evaluate teachers means taking on powerful teacher unions, pitting a core Democratic interest group against a major goal of the Obama administration.

A powerful coalition of rights groups, business interests, teachers and magnet school parents prevailed over conservatives who would have allowed schools in Wake County to become resegregated.

In contrast, conventional elected school boards are often more responsive to powerful interest groups than to the concerns of parents.

A backroom deal that was manufactured by the state's most powerful special interest groups, which swapped a promising bill out for a reinforcement of the status quo.

Unfortunately, in the Governor's first full day in office, he chose to stand with the state's most powerful interest group that spent millions to elect him, rather than the parents and children of California.»

«Teachers unions, historically one of the most powerful interest groups in American politics, are being besieged like never before — under attack from conservative GOP governors with a zeal for budget - cutting even while taking fire from some Democrats, including President Barack Obama, who has suggested he agrees that unions can be an impediment to better schools.»

One of the most powerful factors that sustain the idea that «I am a member of a group, identified by common interests, and those who are not part of my group are somewhat, if not fundamentally, inferior, or in some other way, opposed to me.»

Like any powerful corporation, the credit reporting agencies own their own squad of lobbyists, or special interest groups.

For Xbox One, my team (an incredible group of smart, hardworking folks) and I have rebuilt the Achievements system to be more powerful and more flexible so that developers and publishers can deliver more interesting, complex, and fulfilling goals and rewards to you.

Conteh explores the fact that people posses their power solely within the actions of a group, saying about the piece, «Africans who act solely on the behalf of the interests and concerns of African people are Africans in their most powerful form, bar none.»

It enfranchises the very groups that have the most to lose from conventional climate policies — from powerful corporate interests to many of the world's poorest people.»

They've written letters to the government demanding that Ottawa stop a swarm of activist groups backed by foreign billionaires from hijacking — as the prime minister himself put it — the hearings over the Canadian Northern Gateway pipeline that would carry our oil from Alberta to B.C. Canadians have been calling into radio shows and writing blogs, and spreading the word in their communities about the fact that this crucial decision over Canada's national energy policy is being infiltrated by what are essentially the well - paid lobbyists of wealthy and powerful foreign interests.

Don't let the AGA fool you: despite its handwringing over sensible (and flexible, as written in Section 433) targets, the organization is no «Mom and Pop» suffering from overregulation: the simple fact is that the AGA is one of the largest, most powerful special interest groups in the United States, with many lobbyists on its payroll.

Earthjustice provides vital legal representation, often free, to environmental groups to «even the odds against powerful special interests and to hold accountable those who jeopardize the health of the planet.»

These are just a few examples of how «local» wind power opponents like John Droz and Lisa Linowes have teamed up with powerful special interest groups to perpetuate overblown claims about wind power and military radar operations.

And, as Anne Kelly of Ceres has noted, silence does not equal neutrality: industry associations and other powerful interest groups can claim to be speaking for those companies who do not speak for themselves.

It warns that tackling the problems may affect the vested interests of powerful groups, and that the environment must be moved to the core of decision - making.