Sentences with phrase «outsize influence of»

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.

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

-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-...]

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.

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

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.

Not exact matches

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

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.

Money has always played an outsize role in political races, but its influence increased in 2014, when an aggregate limit of $ 150,000 on individual donors was struck down in a court, paving the way for a single donor to give the $ 102,300 maximum to more party committees and, ultimately, embattled candidates.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

... 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.

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.

From his perch as head of the nation's largest school district, Klein wielded outsize influence, campaigning to persuade districts and states across the nation to adopt the testing and accountability policies he had established in New York.

THE CLIMACTIC FINALE OF THIS CRITIC»S DOCUMENTAII EXPERIENCE TOOK PLACE UNDER the influence of an obscenely outsize mirror balOF THIS CRITIC»S DOCUMENTAII EXPERIENCE TOOK PLACE UNDER the influence of an obscenely outsize mirror balof an obscenely outsize mirror ball.

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 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.

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.

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.

But I think the 2011 case needs to be understood in the framework of Scalia's outsize influence in statutory interpretation cases — and the fact that he often had five votes in such cases.

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.