Sentences with phrase «powerful corporate interests»

There's a train wreck about to happen and consumer groups say YOU will be the victim if the two most powerful corporate interests in the live concert business get their way.

Based on true events so legally contentious that we can hardly believe anyone would approach them, The Insider tells the story of how powerful corporate interests almost succeeded in suppressing the production of a 60 Minutes news show, mounting an onslaught of legal maneuvers, reputation - smearing and witness intimidation.

, and both take money from powerful corporate interests (like the biotech industry) to smear, slander and defame critics who threaten the profits of their corporate sponsors...

1) A Ministry of Labour should be established: to give working people a voice in government to counteract the voice of powerful corporate interests.

David Beetham, How powerful corporate interests transferred the costs of the crash onto others, False Economy, 15 August 2011.

Through eloquent amalgams of scientific imagery and textual redactions, Stolle asks viewers to reconsider the connection between powerful corporate interests, public health, and food consumption.

The COP19 in Warsaw in 2013 was a coal COP, with powerful corporate interests hijacking the UN climate change negotiations.

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.»

«This government started out with some encouraging talk about «value for taxpayers,» but it's now the same old approach of giving big taxpayer subsidies to powerful corporate interests,» Aaron Wudrick, federal director for the Canadian Taxpayers» Federation, said in a statement issued within minutes of the announcement.

«Knowing Coffey's background, as an aggressive litigator who took on powerful corporate interests, strike leaders asked Coffey to write to Dr. Pepper Snapple executives on their behalf, which Coffey promptly agreed to do.»

Whether the issue is universal health care, corporate globalization, alternative energy, election reform or decent, living wages for workers, Greens have the courage and independence necessary to take on the powerful corporate interests opposed to reform.

«She's taken on powerful corporate interests and has served as a tireless advocate and spokesperson for marginalized communities: from housing to healthcare to daycare to environmental justice.

It soon becomes apparent that the two crimes might not be as unconnected as McAffrey first thought, leading him, his editor Cameron Lynne (Helen Mirren), and junior journalist Della Frye (Rachel McAdams) into a political - corporate cover - up that concerns politicians at the highest party level, powerful corporate interests, and an array of ex-soldiers, politicians» spouses and spin doctors, including Jason Bateman's public relations executive.

An open invitation «in this dangerous era of Trump» for «powerful corporate interests» to wreak havoc, warns Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins.

Jeb Bush's Foundation for Florida's Future has worked tirelessly to funnel money out of public education and into very rich, powerful corporate interests.

President Trump, Administrator Pruitt, and their allies in Congress want to obscure the science that clearly demonstrates the need to cut air and water pollution by the powerful corporate interests that offer them the greatest political support.

The American Association for Justice (AAJ) is committed to advocating for the civil justice system, whether that means taking on powerful corporate interests, opposing unconstitutional attacks on the civil justice system or fighting harmful legislation that limits Americans» access to the courts.

We have also championed the causes of vulnerable individuals who have been wronged by powerful corporate interests.