Sentences with phrase «pressured by some interest groups»

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In that year, the FCC released a programming statement in which they concluded, under a good deal of pressure from particular groups) that no public - interest basis was to be served by distinguishing between sustaining - time programs (those broadcast on free air - time) and commercially sponsored programs in evaluating a station's performance in the public interest.

They also made mortgage lenders subject to lawsuits — by special - interest groups and pressure groups — if they insisted on what for generations had been thought to be due diligence.

Saying their patience is at an end, conservative activist groups backed by the billionaire Koch brothers and other powerful interests on the right are mobilizing to pressure Republicans to fulfill their promise to swiftly repeal the Affordable Care Act.

Heineman captures incredible footage on the ground, getting in the middle of firefights and showing the intense pressure of living in the cartel wars on a daily basis, and at the same time observes Mireles» group getting poisoned by the same interests that ensure chaos reigns at the border.

That surprise reversal can be attributed to at least four factors: a wave of new research on teacher quality, philanthropic interest in boosting teacher effectiveness, efforts by advocacy groups and policymakers to revamp state laws on evaluation, and political pressure to dismiss poorly performing teachers.

The ban became controversial when it was delayed in late 2010 after what the public interest group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility charged was pressure by The Coca - Cola Company.

As a result the pressure is on climate scientists to be as precise as it is possible to be, not least because of the speed with which any perceived data discrepancies are seized upon by different interest groups.

Misleading claims about shale gas development serve dogma but not the public interest by Paul Driessen The Sierra Club and other environmental pressure groups are redoubling their efforts to «stop fracking in its tracks.»

The recent proliferation of peer - to - peer rental sites (and pressure created by the interest groups wanting to either expand or ban this kind of activity) has left municipalities, governmental agencies and condominium corporations scrambling to properly regulate this hybrid mixed property use.

Fortunately for these courts, they are increasingly discovering that they can help maintain the space for domestic deliberation and strengthen the ability of their governments to withstand the pressure brought to bear by foreign and local interest groups and powerful foreign governments.