Sentences with phrase «powerful lobbyists who»

It's a world of powerful lobbyists who use methods both subtle and brutal to advance their own interests without a care for the effects on other Australians.

John Madden (Shakespeare In Love) is directing the film, which will see Chastain playing «a powerful lobbyist who sacrifices her career on Federal Hill in order to successfully pass an amendment enforcing stricter gun control laws.»

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That seems like such a no - brainer, but of course it's complicated by powerful food marketers, industry lobbyists and even parents themselves who don't want their kids to be «denied» treats.

«Pensiongate» scandal is bigger than «Watergate» and stars «Hank Morris» and a cast of very Rich and powerful Democrats and political Lobbyists and consultants who help

In 2007, Isay brought on Jennifer Cunningham, a powerful union lobbyist who is the ex-wife of Attorney General Schneiderman and a close confidant of Governor Cuomo.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie is paying $ 4,000 a month to his longtime friend Patrick Jenkins, a political consulant who is also a lobbyist with a long list of clients seeking help from the Legislature's most powerful Democrat.

They're a constant source of low - level grumbling within Albany's lobbying community: the influential consultants, close to powerful officials, who aren't actually registered as lobbyists.

Bronx political observers have noted his political ties to Stanley Schlein, a lawyer, lobbyist and powerful Bronx political insider who was found to be using his public office for his private firm's work while he was chair of the New York City Civil Service Commission.

Mr. Heastie's association with Stanley Schlein, a powerful Bronx attorney and lobbyist who is no stranger to scandal, raised more questions.

Miss Sloane stars Jessica Chastain (Crimson Peak) as lobbyist seeking for tighter federal laws regulating firearms, who faces off against the powerful gun lobby.

It's at first at coy device, though it becomes less so as the series goes in its machinations from D.C. abstracts to grounded details, ones involving the Teachers Union, a powerful oil lobbyist and former colleague named Remy (Mahershala Ali), Claire's water nonprofit and an ambitious blogger named Zoe Barnes (Kate Mara) who develops a mutually beneficial relationship with Underwood.

If companies, like Legacy, who specialize in credit restoration, had the kind of money that these slated information sources do, we could also hire powerful lobbyists to represent our side of the story on a mass scale.

This will provide all home buyers (who are not building science nerds) with the best possible living conditions - but runs completely contrary to the real estate and mortgage lending communities who are very powerful lobbyists.

Mr. Dorego hired an army of lobbyists that eclipsed the contingents from either of real estate's two most powerful trade groups — the Real Estate Board and the Rent Stabilization Association — ensuring he had the ear of state officials who oversee important housing rules, including a lucrative tax abatement program set to expire next month.