Sentences with phrase «on lobbying teams»

About 130 businesses and interest groups spent more than $ 23.5 million on lobbying teams solely focused on climate, but that vastly understates the money devoted to the effort.

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She said that while men are expected to be «assertive, look out for themselves, and lobby for more,» women are expected to be «communal and collaborative, nurturing and giving, focused on the team and not themselves, lest they be viewed as self - absorbed.»

Last month, he picked Jeff Eisenach, an economist who has been on Verizon's (vz) payroll, and Mark Jamison, who formerly worked on Sprint's (s) lobbying team and now heads the University of Florida's Public Utility Research Center.

In recent weeks, the team hired K Street lobbying firm McGuireWoods Consulting, a move that comes on top of the team's work with crisis management expert Lanny Davis.

On January 4, Flynn revealed to the Trump transition team that the FBI was investigating for covertly lobbying for Turkey; Flynn was not fired.

The South African soccer team the Kaiser Chiefs organized a national awareness day; in Burkino Faso, activists partnered with a trucking union for monitoring purposes; drivers of moto - taxis in Thailand keep watch for child sex exploitation; Nepalese trafficking survivors formed Shakti Samuaha, a nongovernmental organization that lobbies officials to make policy changes; organizations in Bangladesh have focused specifically on the taboo topic of male prostitutes and have opened shelters for exploited children.

The first ever of its size and type, the bright red and green Macaron Holiday Tree at The Ritz - Carlton, Charlotte will be on display in the hotel lobby through December 29 and will be complemented by the display of an all - sugar, candy cane - red showpiece sleigh, pulled by a team of all - chocolate reindeer.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

The lobby team at my last nonpofit (enviro) job drove home this observation repeatedly, putting the procedural victories and losses along the legislative way in perspective — sure, the Senate might strip a critical provision out or add in something nasty while voting on floor amendments, but the matter really wasn't settled until conference.

Ride - share companies in the last several years have assembled a team of high - profile and politically connected lobbying and consulting organizations to influence city and state government in New York, records at the Joint Commission on Public Ethics show.

After Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan accused Mayor Bill de Blasio of not lobbying forcefully enough on extending mayoral control of city schools, de Blasio's team says that wasn't the case.

Aside from insurance groups and the Catholic Church, the I - Team found groups representing foster care workers and teachers also targeting the Child Victims Act on their lobbying lists.

One of the most interesting guest appearances, however, was made on the MPs» team in the annual Labour Party Conference game against the press lobby, when Ed Balls met Bryan Robson at a reception the evening before our match and casually offered him a game.

NYC, for example, has an in - house lobbying team, but also hires outside help on particular issues, like congestion pricing, for example, when the city retained Pat Lynch, although that didn't work out so well.

An ad hoc group was formed to bring numbers down, legislators lobbied a state assemblyman from Lindenhurst to move on a bill he's kept in a key committee and, before long, the federal government is expected to bring in a team of sharpshooters to cull the herd and reduce the crisis.

But on the plus side for Westbourne, Smith may well be just as close to Team Corbyn as any other Labour «big hitter» in the lobbying world.

He said he spoke to Department of Transportation commissioner Polly Trottenberg earlier this month and had a «long talk» on Wednesday with Sherif Soliman, the director of the city's lobbying team in Albany.

But perhaps the most significant players on Team May are Stephen Parkinson, formerly of the Vote Leave campaign, and Fiona Hill, the home secretary's formidable former special adviser and close confidante who recently joined lobbying firm Lexington Communications.

Cheye Calvo, the mayor of Berwyn Heights, Maryland is lobbying for the Maryland legislature to pass a new bill that would require every SWAT team in the state to provide a monthly public report on its activities, including where and when it was deployed and whether an operation resulted in arrests, evidence seizures or injuries.

It's beyond frustrating to know that outside creating a private match or participating in League Battles there's no way to guarantee being on the same team as a friend or swap out gear without having to completely abandon the current lobby.

Public humiliation, on - camera betrayal and illegal surveillance are all on the menu, as Elizabeth's team and the much deeper - pocketed gun lobby race to cram as many senators into their pockets as possible.

Instead, he will focus on advising clients and the team at PLMR, rather than lobbying.

Hults has teamed up with U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D - N.Y., and David Little, the director of governmental relations for the New York State School Boards Association, to lobby on that issue.

A main restaurant offers a buffet breakfast, lunch and dinner of Greek and international cuisine; an a la carte restaurant serves delicious international dishes for evening dining; the Taverna «Dikti» on the beach offers traditional Greek dishes and fresh fish, light meals, salads and snacks; the poolside «Flokos» bar overlooks the Aegean Sea and serves beverages and cocktails; the pool bar is adjacent to the children's pool and waterfall; a lobby / champagne bar offers fresh coffee and drinks and hosts live music entertainment; there is a reading room, TV / DVD lounge, a garden (picnic) area; and an animation team hosts an evening entertainment programme.

Another option is to dive Tulamben's USAT Liberty shipwreck and have the Geko Dive Team pick you up at your Candidasa's hotel lobby on the way to this fabulous diving site.

The resort boats have been completely revamped and in writing moment the resort maintenance team are putting the finishing touches on a major modernization of pool, restaurant and lobby.

It's beyond frustrating to know that outside creating a private match or participating in League Battles there's no way to guarantee being on the same team as a friend or swap out gear without having to completely abandon the current lobby.

Good combos and player graphics and a story mode where you can go through the campaign of the anime and manga and a shops to get better combos for your character and dlc clothes and characters and a little mess around lobby like at wings of freedom where you can walk around and do what you like and do some campaign missions in 3d where you walk or run around the map doing your objective and same for and online mode with some PvP actions or a capture the flag mini game where with a team of 6 max on each side or capture the bomb from the first cupple of episodes from the beginng

@Planetjumble — If you're coming up against decent players with communication skills on mode, take the opportunity to chat with them in the pre-game lobby, friend up and head over to team mode — that's where the real fun is.

You can of course team up online with random players as well, and on the whole the lobby system was stable, with a minimal number of disconnections so far.

-LSB-...] The oilsands lobbying team, created in 2009 and consisting of about 25 Canadian diplomats in Europe, also staged a two - day retreat in February 2011 that cost taxpayers about $ 54,000 in travel and hospitality costs, including a $ 15,000 untendered contract for an Ottawa - based consultant who gave a presentation on «how to do advocacy» in Europe, Postmedia News reported last month.

On Tuesday, February 3, New Yorkers for Active Transportation (NY4AT) will be teaming up with New York Public Transit Association (NYPTA) for a lobby day in Albany to discuss pedestrian, bicycling and transit infrastructure.

CCL is closing in on 50 local chapters / lobby teams located throughout the United States and Canada.

While the brash brand of direct interference into the public discourse on scientific findings about global warming and associated harmful impacts we saw from Exxon operatives in the 1980s and 1990s has now morphed into a more passive, less - visible form of tampering — such as the company's continued stream of donations (some alleged to be illegal) to groups known for lobbying against and often shooting down federal and state - level proposals to promote renewable energy and limit carbon emissions — perhaps Avery will be able to persuade the new corporate leadership team to stop funding these groups altogether.

Kavanagh and his team spent over $ 7 million on lobbying for AEP in 2009 and are on par to eclipse that sum in 2010.

Robert A. Sirico Board of Academic and Scientific Advisors Source: Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow CFACT Website 5/06 James H. Steele Board of Academic and Scientific Advisors Source: Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow CFACT Website 5/06 Ruthann Swanson Board of Academic and Scientific Advisors Source: Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow CFACT Website 5/06 I.W. (Irwin) Tucker Board of Academic and Scientific Advisors Source: Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow CFACT Website 5/06 Gerd - Ranier Weber Board of Academic and Scientific Advisors Source: Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow CFACT Website 5/06 John Zarling Former Board of Academic and Scientific Advisors Source: Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow CFACT Website 5/03 Owen Mcshane on CFACT delegation to UNFCCC bali conference Dec 07 Source: CFACT bali report Vincent Gray On CFACT delegation at UNFCCC conference in Bali, December 07 Source: CFACT bali report David Evans part of «Team Bali» lobby team 2007 at UNFCCC meeting Source: Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow Bali report Joanne Nova on «Team Bali» lobby team, 2007 Source: Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow Bali report Owen Mcshane member of «team bali» 2007 unfccc lobby team Source: Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow Bali report Marc Morano Source: CFACT - Marc Moraon CFACT delegation to UNFCCC bali conference Dec 07 Source: CFACT bali report Vincent Gray On CFACT delegation at UNFCCC conference in Bali, December 07 Source: CFACT bali report David Evans part of «Team Bali» lobby team 2007 at UNFCCC meeting Source: Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow Bali report Joanne Nova on «Team Bali» lobby team, 2007 Source: Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow Bali report Owen Mcshane member of «team bali» 2007 unfccc lobby team Source: Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow Bali report Marc Morano Source: CFACT - Marc MoraOn CFACT delegation at UNFCCC conference in Bali, December 07 Source: CFACT bali report David Evans part of «Team Bali» lobby team 2007 at UNFCCC meeting Source: Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow Bali report Joanne Nova on «Team Bali» lobby team, 2007 Source: Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow Bali report Owen Mcshane member of «team bali» 2007 unfccc lobby team Source: Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow Bali report Marc Morano Source: CFACT - Marc MoTeam Bali» lobby team 2007 at UNFCCC meeting Source: Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow Bali report Joanne Nova on «Team Bali» lobby team, 2007 Source: Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow Bali report Owen Mcshane member of «team bali» 2007 unfccc lobby team Source: Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow Bali report Marc Morano Source: CFACT - Marc Moteam 2007 at UNFCCC meeting Source: Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow Bali report Joanne Nova on «Team Bali» lobby team, 2007 Source: Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow Bali report Owen Mcshane member of «team bali» 2007 unfccc lobby team Source: Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow Bali report Marc Morano Source: CFACT - Marc Moraon «Team Bali» lobby team, 2007 Source: Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow Bali report Owen Mcshane member of «team bali» 2007 unfccc lobby team Source: Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow Bali report Marc Morano Source: CFACT - Marc MoTeam Bali» lobby team, 2007 Source: Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow Bali report Owen Mcshane member of «team bali» 2007 unfccc lobby team Source: Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow Bali report Marc Morano Source: CFACT - Marc Moteam, 2007 Source: Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow Bali report Owen Mcshane member of «team bali» 2007 unfccc lobby team Source: Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow Bali report Marc Morano Source: CFACT - Marc Moteam bali» 2007 unfccc lobby team Source: Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow Bali report Marc Morano Source: CFACT - Marc Moteam Source: Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow Bali report Marc Morano Source: CFACT - Marc Morano

We started at 7:00 after dinner and I went to bed at around 11:30 or so, and teams were sitting the hotel lobby working at some of the bars near the hotels and working on their problems.

During July and August, he met with and trailed members of Drinker Biddle & Reath's dozen - person lobbying and advocacy team as they set about their business on Capitol Hill and in their K Street office.

The company spent just over $ 13 million on lobbying in 2017, with the bulk of the money spent on an in - house lobbying team that's stocked with former Republican and Democratic political aides, according to disclosure records filed with the House and Senate.

The company's Watson team is embarking on a lobbying push to address what it sees as an incorrect, «dystopian» view of AI.

A big thank you to CAMFT's Grassroots Advocacy Team for proudly lobbying Representatives in Washington, DC on behalf of California's Marriage and Family Therapists!