Sentences with phrase «of special interest groups»

This will make political donations more transparent and helps to stop the influence of special interest groups in local government.

And with affiliates in key European cities, we're also closely connected to a variety of special interest groups and private member clubs.

In recent years, a handful of special interest groups have tried to shift the country away from this promise.

Instead, it would keep these issues in the hands of special interest groups that do not represent the majority of public opinion.

What has been developing for the past 20 years is the development of policy to suit the commercial interests of special interest groups.

Over our nation's long history, the American public has developed a healthy skepticism about the actions of special interest groups.

«How many more times must we grieve before politicians put the safety of their communities before the financial contributions of special interest groups?»

They are simply variants of the Real Jack Russell Terrier... a type or size taken from within portions of the JRTCGB / JRTCA breed standard to suit the whims of special interest groups / individuals.

Advocates for campaign - finance reform lauded the commission's recommendations for how to reform current law, particularly the push for a publicly funded system like that in New York City, which uses taxpayer dollars to limit the influence of special interest groups.

Somewhat fortuitously given the long list of special interest groups which Dr Carter has affiliations with, he feels that the standard practice in science of disclosing where funding for research comes from is «a very quaint and old fashioned practice».

Consumer preferences are expressed through their purchases, as well as through the involvement of special interest groups in the political processes governing our agri - food systems (Armbruster and Knutson, 2013).

Big government for the sake of special interest groups and inactive population is only crony democracy and it is not worth a dime.

It's been drowned out by politicians pandering to the dark money politics of special interest groups.

Fringe causes were put before mainstream concerns, with many in the party seriously accepting the flawed logic that stapling together a collection of special interest groups would create a counterweight to Thatcher's electoral coalition of aspirational voters.

Through the BHA's «Holy Redundant» campaign, well over 2,000 people have written to their local MP and the Rt Hon. Nick Clegg MP to urge them end the privileging of special interest groups in Parliament.

That's because, with the help of special interest groups, it's always Christmas for California politicians.

«Every day, Assembly Member Micah Kellner is fighting for people who don't have the backing of a special interest group or corporate money,» the campaign said in a statement.

Monday was a time for hundreds of lobbyists and dozens of special interest groups to engage in last - ditch efforts to get, or kill, plans in the budget.

It means that you can bring all of your scientific integrity with you and not have to run afoul of special interest groups.

The formation of this Special Interest Group represents an important milestone in this endeavor.

The possibility of evidence being hijacked for the use of special interest groups serves to reinforce the need for continued research and evaluation.

A host of special interest groups, charities and religious organizations also received money from AFT, including the Center for Tax and Budget Accountability, the Economic Policy Institute, and the University of Colorado National Education Policy Center.

RISC is please to announce that Duncan Welder, Director of Client Services, has been appointed as Director of Special Interest Groups for ATD Houston.

Those funds benefit elected officials and influence them to give priority to the rent - seeking requests of special interest groups over the needs of those who fund, and are served by, the system.

Indeed, the Administration and the NJMVC are thwarting the Legislature and going beyond their authority to implement the state's laws at the behest of a special interest group looking to protect its monopoly at the expense of New Jersey consumers.

There's a better approach to addressing the issue of global climate change rather than the campaign of mass hysteria being promoted by most of the media, much of academia, and many of the special interest groups that stand to profit from their «doom and gloom» pandemonium.

Since resources are finite, we must access their relative importance — which few of these special interest groups around each shockwave bother to do.

Two of the leading experts on e-discovery, Maura R. Grossman and Gordon V. Cormack, presented a 2014 peer - reviewed study on continuous active learning to the annual conference of the Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval, a part of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), «Evaluation of Machine - Learning Protocols for Technology - Assisted Review in Electronic Discovery.»

They're one of the many ways to get your name in front of a special interest group and they are often ripe with possibilities and over-flowing with potential.

Click here to view the policy that guides the formation and structure of a Special Interest Group.

I have served as the head of the Special Interest Group in Psychotherapy and Coaching at the International Coach Federation.

This paper summarizes information presented at the second campus workshop of the Special Interest Group of Psychology and Counseling of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE).

Experts predict that this will only increase the power of the special interest groups that fund the campaigns.

As Bronx Voter pointed out, the political contributions of each SPECIAL INTEREST group are often enlightening, too.

Not surprisingly, newspaper editorial boards and a wide variety of special interest groups have some ideas of what Cuomo's 2016 agenda should be.

The only way for the phone lock issue to be resolved permanently is for Congress to make changes to the DMCA, which is much easier said than done because of the influence of special interest groups and lobbyists.

One benefit of pursuing education reform through the judiciary is that the power of special interest groups — namely, the teachers» unions — is drastically diminished in courtrooms, where political lobbying and campaign contributions are far less influential.

Many Walters members choose to become involved in the museum through one of the special interest groups.