Sentences with phrase «strong lobbying campaign»

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DECEMBER The Property Council launched a strong campaign on the GST 2005 issue, forming industry allies and widening lobbying efforts to include ministers and backbenchers from all parties.

And it all comes the week after Lord Rose, head of the Britain Stronger in Europe campaign, told lobby lunch that his side would not be running a «Project Fear» - style campaign.

Public employee unions, in a lobbying campaign spearheaded by the largest statewide teachers» union, New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), asserted that the Triborough Doctrine's status quo guarantee wasn't strong enough.

Over the last three years Rhee and StudentsFirst (called GNEPSA here in Connecticut) have been one of Governor Malloy's strongest supporters, helping to fund the most expensive lobbying campaign in Connecticut history.

Puppy Mill Awareness of SE Michigan is a grassroots organization dedicated to ending commercial breeding «puppy mills» and protecting families from puppy peddlers, pet stores and bad breeders by lobbying for stronger laws, setting up information booths, completing research studies and launching pet store campaigns.

This group conducts undercover investigations, coordinates outreach and public education campaigns, lobbies government bodies to secure stronger laws for animals, participates in corporate outreach and pressure campaigns to secure meaningful animal related policies, and they engage with the mass media to raise the profile of animal issues in Latvia.

This was despite a sustained campaign of lobbying and denial by the chemicals industry — led by Dupont — which bears strong similarities to the campaign by fossil fuel companies to prevent action on climate change.

There were strong and successful lobbying campaigns to not merely subsidize part of the price of the 11 mpg vehicles, but in some cases governments ended up paying more per 11 mpg vehicle than the price of the vehicle in the showroom altogether between federal and state incentive programs, before counting the cost of paving the roads or infrastructure.