Sentences with phrase «successfully lobbying»

However, the real estate industry has firmly resisted disruption, successfully lobbying for state laws banning commission rebates, preventing the public disclosure of residential sales prices, and requiring consumers to purchase real estate services that they may not want, as well as blocking third parties from accessing listing data.

Helm and Boggs have also worked tirelessly to support legal aid, from generating resources for the Campaign for Equal Justice, to successfully lobbying the state legislature when funding for legal aid was at risk.

Formerly in London, but now defunct after successfully lobbying for more runways in the South East, Midlands and Scotland.

Furthermore, the updated standard could assist advocacy groups in successfully lobbying Congress to fully fund IDEA (which has always lagged far behind the level of federal funding called for in this law).

After successfully lobbying, the Chamber of Shipping is pleased to see that the Migration Advisory Committee has recognised that ship and hovercraft officers are a shortage occupation in the UK in its report - Skilled, Shortage, Sensible: The recommended shortage occupation lists for the UK and Scotland.

In Europe, the food industry reportedly spent a staggering $ 1 billion successfully lobbying the European parliament to reject traffic light labels.

During the 2003 SARS crisis, he gained international prominence by successfully lobbying the WHO to lift a travel advisory.

So, in 1998, he successfully lobbies for disabled vets to be added to the SBA's funding program for disadvantaged businesses.

The companies, working with privacy rights activists, successfully lobbied Congress two years ago to pass legislation that curtailed the NSA's bulk collection of call records.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper's free - trade campaign produced deals with Colombia and Peru, and he successfully lobbied for a place among Trans - Pacific Partnership negotiating countries, which many believe will one day include China.

But recently, Elio announced that it had successfully lobbied for re-categorization in many states as a new kind of vehicle, an «autocycle».

In the early 2000s, gun makers successfully lobbied for protection from such lawsuits.

Alisports, which organizes the World Electronic Sports Games, successfully lobbied the Olympic Council of Asia to include e-sports at the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou.

For example, the Bread for the World organization successfully lobbied Congress to adopt a bill declaring the «right to food.»

«The Mormons successfully lobbied against gay marriage in California.

So I embraced atheism and gay human rights activism, becoming part of a group which successfully lobbied for a clause banning discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation in South Africa's postapartheid constitution.

When Warren Randall bought 50 per cent of the Seppeltsfield business in 2009, he successfully lobbied Fosters (soon to become Treasury Wine Estates) to allow him to make small amounts of table wines — six varieties, just 1,000 cases of each — to sell exclusively through cellar door.

1in133.org and all of its supporters in the gluten free community successfully lobbied the FDA to take up the issue of gluten - free food labeling regulations in 2011.

As part of the Open Wing Alliance, we have successfully lobbied Compass Group to pledge to go 100 % cage egg free — sparing millions of hens globally from life in a cage.

I am amazed - though on reflection, perhaps I am not - that no one has corrected you, in that Arsenal have been relegated way back in the early 20th century and elected to Division One under Sir HENRY Norris, our owner and chairman who successfully lobbied the other clubs to elect Arsenal, who had finished among the also rans in Div 2 to be promoted to DIV One, when the number of clubs in Div One was expanded.

Private Eye cites other concerns, «While Nestlé's Aeros, Lion Bars and Golden Nugget cereal help us get fat, Kendrick is president of the Food and Drink Federation which successfully lobbies the government to do next to nothing about it.»

-LSB-...] Program — went into high gear and successfully lobbied against the change.

* Those eye - popping fines made headlines and local TV news, and apparently motivated someone to head up to the state house in Austin to successfully lobby on the issue.

I've successfully lobbied to get Scholastic book sales out of my kids school.

«In the early 1980s, there was talk of closing the zoo, but the community successfully lobbied to keep it open, «Gramieri says.

Barrington Citizens for Open Space successfully lobbied the Barrington Park District Board for a committee that will study how to condemn the 55 - acre parcel, which is owned by Northwest Community.

With community support, we eliminated high - fructose drinks from school vending machines and banned sweets from classroom parties (a hard swallow for those drinking the same sugary punch as Cookie Crusader Sarah Palin); changed the tuition - based preschool food offerings to allergy - free, healthful choices; successfully lobbied for a salad bar and then taught kids how to use it; enlisted Gourmet Gorilla, a small independent company, to provide affordable, healthy, locally sourced, organic snacks after - school and boxed lunches; built a teaching kitchen to house an afterschool cooking program; and convinced teachers to give - up a union - mandated planning period in order to supervise daily outdoor recess.

Here's the back story: when it comes to health and wellness initiatives, Nettelhorst, my neighborhood public elementary school, has moved mountains: we successfully lobbied to become a Healthy Choice Pilot School, giving us one of the system's coveted salad bars, honored by the Healthy Schools Campaign and U.S. Senator Dick Durbin.

Earlier this year, the SNA successfully lobbied to insert language in the Congressional report accompanying the 2014 Omnibus Spending Bill, advising USDA to grant schools a one - year waiver on either requirement, if implementing the requirement would result in increased cost.

I recalled that last September we had successfully lobbied the council to install double - glazing in her property in time for the winter.

Has Michael Gove successfully lobbied for change?

He did, however, successfully lobby the state for extra funding after a $ 55 million budget gap was revealed in the school's 2013 and 2014 financial operations — roughly 6 percent of the city's overall budget.

Several months ago our newspaper, through this column, successfully lobbied our Republican County Executive, Ed Day, as well as our Democratic State Legislators, Ken Zebrowski and Ellen Jaffee, to write letters to President Donald Trump, urging him to supply the 50 percent federal backing needed for the $ 24 billion Gateway project (with New York and New Jersey splitting the remaining 50 %).

The office successfully lobbied for more positions two years ago to assist in its Toxicology Lab.

Fortunately for the party, it successfully lobbied a few years ago for a change in the definition of «political party».

The firm successfully lobbied the council on 12 bills since she won the job.

The firm had priority access to jurors for speedy trials, and successfully lobbied a judge to reverse a 20 - year ban on punitive damages, paving the way for bigger payouts.

Christopher Goeken, Director of Public Policy and Government Relations at New York League of Conservation Voters, said the personal products industry successfully lobbied lawmakers into stalling legislation that bans microbeads, though some larger manufacturers have already pledged to phase out certain products.

Crowley told Capital she successfully lobbied for enough signatures during the Council's first charter meeting of the new year, which was held today.

The government was forced last night to deal with its first sleaze row since the general election when secret Whitehall documents showed a Tory donor successfully lobbied for the cancellation of an # 80m loan to a leading engineering company.

Earlier this year, the groups successfully lobbied for an additional $ 55 million in subsidies in the state budget that will be phased in over the next four years.

Although the charter sector ultimately gained an advocate in Governor Andrew Cuomo and successfully lobbied for a sweeping pro-charter law passed during the last legislative session, Moskowitz said she refers to this spring as «the dark period.»

In fact, I was a member of the Board of Overseers at Tufts University, until I successfully lobbied the members to change the racially charged title to the Board of Advisors, of which I am also a member.

Wealthy neighborhood residents — mostly from one neighboring building — have successfully lobbied their local elected officials to rezone a 10 - block stretch of the area limiting the scope of Gamma's tower.

UPPER WEST SIDE — A local block association successfully lobbied the city to spruce up its block with five antique - looking lampposts that cost $ 10,000 each.

Encouraged by initial studies, the Dutch government in 2006 successfully lobbied the European Commission to allow 5 % of each country's fleet to use pulse trawling, exempting them from the European Union's 1988 general ban on electrical fishing.

In 2008, Oktar successfully lobbied a Turkish court to order a block on richarddawkins.net on the grounds that Dawkins's criticism of his tactics was libelous.

In 1998, these companies successfully lobbied Congress — over the objections of some unions and engineering organizations — to temporarily increase the maximum number of visas for foreign technical workers from 65,000 to 115,000 a year.

Just as Libby successfully lobbied his Republican base to pressure the President to have his sentence commuted, Michael's Born - Again gambit is clearly designed to appeal to the African - American soft spot for spirituality.

She eventually got out of her own head by joining a Phoenix youth theater and its improv troupe and, at the age of 14, she successfully lobbied her parents to let her temporarily move to Los Angeles to pursue professional work.