Sentences with phrase «outsize influence»

Price, who at first agreed to an interview but later stopped responding to messages, is only one of a number of private lawyers who have exerted outsize influence on American policy on ISDS.

-LSB-...] outsize influence of corporate money was on full display this week, as frozen pizza manufacturers were able to circumvent proposed changes to school food regulations -LSB-...]

Because committee members» ballots are weighted according to how many people in their area voted for the Democratic candidate in the most recent gubernatorial election, Upper West Siders wielded outsize influence in the decision process because of vastly higher turnout rates in their neighborhood — even though it makes up a relatively small portion of the district.

This consistent increase over the past 10 years in LLC giving, with a concomitant diminution in direct giving, clearly illustrates how the real estate industry continues to consolidate power and wield outsize influence over our elected leaders through its prolific use of limited liability companies.

But any effort to fix the system would be complicated by loopholes that permit wealthy individuals and moneyed interests to exert outsize influence, including through 527 groups, which can accept unlimited contributions.

If bitcoin miners have become barons with outsize influence on the network, even influence that was never intended, they sit on a throne of skulls.

As America has suffered through mass shooting after mass shooting, it often seems there is an unbridgeable chasm between activists calling for reforms and gun rights purists who have worked to redefine the meaning of the Second Amendment through the courts and exercise outsize influence on legislatures.

The dwarf galaxy's outsize influence stems from the assumption that although Sagittarius today is a mere fraction of the Milky Way's mass, it should once have rested inside a hefty cocoon of dark matter, known as a dark matter halo, some 100 billion times the mass of the sun.

In August an international team led by Gerald Meehl, a climatologist with the National Center for Atmospheric Research, announced that the sun's outsize influence results from its combined effects on our atmosphere and oceans.

Karen Wilkin and Geoffrey Dorfman even organized an exhibition about Hofmann's outsize influence at New York's Painting Center in 2005.

The pair of mortgage - finance giants, which were bailed out by the U.S. government and placed in conservatorship in 2008 during the height of the financial crisis, have historically boasted outsize influence on the single - family mortgage market, but Rosengren expressed concern that the duo's growing clout in the multifamily sector may pose a risks, as the government considers new structures for the entities, created in the wake of the Great Depression to help facilitate homeownership.

The IEA, has also given these folks the opportunity to wield outsize influence over them in their decision making.

Garry said he understood why some might question if his role in the transition suggests the party will have outsize influence over Curran.

Every market has a person with outsize influence.

However, it could have an outsize influence on private company valuations and limit the size of startup funding rounds.

But Marcario earns recognition for both her success and the outsize influence the Patagonia brand holds in the business world — as well as her role in extending that sway.

It's a familiar worry about the outsize influence that one dominant, successful company can have on its industry; if Uber were in banking, it might be deemed «too big to fail.»

Those who have been ostracized by the outsize influence of the hard - right in conservative media believe — or at least hope — Armageddon is on the horizon.

Forty - six percent believe that a subset of directors has an outsize influence on board decisions (a dynamic referred to as «a board within a board»).

Most of the people who spoke to The Times insisted on anonymity, citing nondisclosure agreements or a fear of being ostracized in the industry, or in the Portland community, where Nike wields outsize influence.

The outsize influence of agents is nothing new, but Sanches puts it in stark relief.

The outsize influence of corporate money was on full display this week, as frozen pizza manufacturers were able to circumvent proposed changes to school food regulations that woud have ended the practice of counting pizza as a school food vegetable.

And I share your pessimism about the outsize influence of food lobbies.

Yesterday I passed on a blog post by Ed Bruske (former Washington Post reporter and the blogger behind The Slow Cook and Better DC School Food blogs) regarding the outsize influence wielded in school cafeterias by huge food companies like Kellogg's,... [Continue reading]

Yesterday I passed on a blog post by Ed Bruske (former Washington Post reporter and the blogger behind The Slow Cook and Better DC School Food blogs) regarding the outsize influence wielded in school cafeterias by huge food companies like Kellogg's, Pepperidge Farm, Tyson's and the rest.

Instead, several of the attack ads focused on undercutting public campaign financing, another campaign finance reform that would restrict the outsize influence of the wealthy in Albany.

Prosecutors allege he illegally cashed in on his outsize influence, making big money by doing political favors — not legal work — for law firms.

Their outsize influence has fueled aggressive campaigns, which will persist in spite of the accord, to unseat both the incumbent governor and IDC senators.

Two mysterious aides have outsize influence.

But GOP lawmakers raise concerns over the «outsize influence over county government» of his former law firm.

But the outsize influences of people who are prepared to give tens of millions to a super PAC or the contributor who can bundle hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations have changed the game.

Unlike de Blasio's nonprofit, the Committee never voluntarily disclosed its donors, but a number of negative stories focused attention on the outsize influence the group gave a few donors who bankrolled the committee's efforts.

When it comes to Earth's climate, what happens in the tropical Pacific Ocean has an outsize influence.

The 1993 study showed that the Earth would tilt wildly without the moon because two of its motions would end up in sync, allowing Jupiter to have an outsize influence.

... Someone who understands the outsize influence advisers have on the career of early career scientists.»

Swarms of tiny oceanic organisms known collectively as zooplankton may have an outsize influence on their environment.

This structure, in turn, has an outsize influence on how biofilm - dwelling populations function and evolve.

The Invisible War lays bare the reprehensible failings and hypocrisy of a powerful institution, as Dick did in previous nonfiction works such as Twist of Faith (2004), about sexual abuse in the Catholic Church; This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006), an occasionally gimmicky exposé of the MPAA's outsize influence and idiocy; and Outrage (2009), on closeted pols who vote anti-gay.

But he's right in that I don't want to endlessly debate the outsize influence of a couple of big - name reform - oriented TFA alum like Michelle Rhee and John White and Mike Feinberg.

Additionally, TFA has made it a priority, through LEE, to help place their alums in prestigious positions in Washington, where they exert an outsize influence on the nation's education policy.

Some of his best - known works from this period, such as Following Piece (1969), Trademarks (1970), and Seedbed (1972), were cornerstones of this era and have had an outsize influence on his peers and later generations of artists.

McKibben's enemy, of course, is the outsize influence on policy exerted by the array of companies extracting fossil fuels from the Earth to satisfy the growing global demand for energy.

The eastern equatorial Pacific is well known to have an outsize influence on global weather.

Swarms of tiny ocean organisms known collectively as zooplankton may have an outsize influence on their environment.

The good news is that black carbon's outsize influence may make it a powerful lever for combating climate change.

The intent of the college is, in many ways, to ensure that single areas of the country do not have an outsize influence on the entirety of national politics.

E-discovery consultant Mary Mack of the Portland, Ore. - based consulting firm Fios says judges who are ruling on the finer points of e-discovery are going to have an outsize influence for a long time.