Sentences with phrase «through lobbying»

The National Association of Realtors also has worked to reinforce the role of agents through lobbying and advertising, sometimes in unconventional ways.

BEAUCHAMP: Basically the success that we have — whether it's through lobbying or watching my unbelievable staff flick the switch on a new piece of technology that at three o'clock in the morning is going to be seen by 3,000 people who are all on the system at that particular low point in the day.

ANTaR does this primarily through lobbying, public campaigns and advocacy.

The government has introduced a new process of Special Industry Rules (SIRs) in 2005, but the majority of the exemptions introduced between 1944 and 2005 were through lobbying with little employee consultation or regard for the workplace.

ALEC Exposed Also run by the Center for Media and Democracy, ALEC Exposed tracks the corporate - funded American Legislative Exchange Council's efforts to undermine the public interest and democracy through lobbying and collaboration between corporations and politicians on «model bills» developed behind closed doors to shift state laws in favor of corporate interests instead of the public.

As with Climate Change, Island USA does not seem to have fully prevailed through its lobbying.

Tens of thousands of people have voted for the companies guiltiest of undermining necessary climate action, through lobbying or greenwashing.

Sarah van Gelder: In a lot of movements, there's some combination of putting pressure on the political process, through lobbying and so forth; protests out on the street; and building the new society — not asking for permission, just going ahead and doing it.

Most of ALEC's 2013 efforts were defeated through lobbying and grassroots initiatives undertaken by renewables advocates and climate change activists like Greenpeace and the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Through the lobbying of city officials, they were able to pass a No Kill ordinance, which provided certain protections to shelter pets that had not been in place before.

In this year's conference, we'll cover a number of different ways that communities have gone No Kill, such as Austin, TX (through lobbying of city officials and a legislative mandate), Fairfax County (through a shelter director's decision), and Kansas City, Missouri (through advocates and volunteers forming a non-profit and bidding on a government contract).

It's through lobbying and ballot initiatives.

Through its lobbying efforts, the Alliance helped establish the Large Carnivore Act which requires the humane treatment of large cats such as lions and tigers, and even bears.

Through its lobbying efforts and petitions, Animal Aid USA strives to end animal cruelty, focusing on banning inhumane ways animals are euthanized such as the gas chamber and intracardiac injection without anesthesia.

Our next step as a library community is to start working to get these appropriations to flow to school libraries again through lobbying Local Education Agencies.

Friedrichs is challenging California's largest teachers union on First Amendment grounds, arguing, in part, that mandatory union dues deny individual members the right of free speech through lobbying efforts and campaign contributions that don't necessarily comport with the views of all union members.

The platform will now read: «We oppose making Colorado's public schools private or run by private corporations or becoming segregated again through lobbying and campaigning efforts of the organization called Democrats for Education Reform and demand that they immediately stop using the party's name Democrat in their name.»

What these latest State Election Enforcement Commission reveal is that Patrick Riccards, ConnAD and ConnCAN have now moved past their efforts to influence policy through their lobbying and have begun to directly campaign for and against individual candidates.

They are able to influence national policy through lobbying, and run schools according to private interests at the same time.

In contrast to the coalition, trying to gag unions and other dissenting voices through their lobbying bill, he understands the role that unions and a vibrant civil society play in public life.

Through lobbying, advocacy, coalition building, citizen education and policy development, EPL / Environmental Advocates has been New York's environmental conscience - ensuring that environmental laws are enforced; that new measures are enacted when necessary; and that the public is informed of, and participates in, important environmental policy debates.

Fair Wisconsin Inc. works to build a fair, safe, and inclusive Wisconsin for all lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people by advancing, achieving, and protecting LGBT civil rights through lobbying, legislative advocacy, grassroots organizing, coalition building and electoral involvement.

Introduced at the end of July by City Councilman Mark Levine, the bill has since gained the support of 12 fellow councilmembers through the lobbying efforts of Levine's staff and parents at P.S. 163, a West 97th Street elementary school that would neighbor a construction site under a plan to build a 20 - story nursing home development.

MATT MURPHY: My theory is that the industry through lobbying groups donated — a certain amount of money to politicians to get a law passed that favored the industry.

Currently the government is controlled by corporations / persons with proportionally a lot more to say through lobbying than they contribute in taxes.

«But the involvement of campaign groups and other organisations, whether through lobbying government or public campaigning, must be done in a transparent and open way.»

Plump now lives in Indianapolis, where he sells insurance and runs Plump's Last Shot restaurant and fights class basketball through his lobbying group, Friends of Hoosier Hysteria.

GFI works to affect legal change through lobbying policy makers, writing op - eds, providing information to congressional offices, and researching potential regulatory pathways for cultured products.23 GFI also organized an event on Capitol Hill to promote plant - based meat that was co-sponsored by Beyond Meat.

Instead, legislators appear to have bought into the false notion that pass - throughs are small businesses, and are responding to the organized efforts of trade groups composed of pass - throughs, who push that narrative aggressively (and with the help of pass - through lobbying firms).

We believe IBM should establish high standards for evaluating and disclosing IBM's participation and extensive spending in the legislative process through lobbying.

It has spent $ 8 million making that case through lobbying and advertising, and it seems to be working: The latest polls show Prop F being defeated by a narrow margin.

He strides quickly through the lobby, carefully avoiding eye contact with the security guards.

Help ruin it for everyone by making your way through the lobby of the Rosewood Hotel Georgia and having the concierge direct you to Reflections» dedicated elevator.

Space was at such a premium that the 150 - room Tiger Hotel, built on the canyon floor in 1887, necessarily straddled the main stream, and the railroad ran through its lobby.

The most common argument you hear from the pass - through lobby (which includes, notably, lobbying firms themselves, who organize as partnerships) is that pass - throughs face a higher rate than C corporations.

The 53 - year - old academic walked with no entourage through the lobby of the Radisson Blu Daugava Hotel clutching a mobile phone and a newspaper.

«I want to make sure we're not dragging a 700 - pound oven through their lobby,» Whiffen says.

A guest was carrying his infant daughter and lost his footing when walking through the lobby.

The Restaurant will be accessible through the lobby of Spicer Mansion, located at 15 Elm Street.

They walk through the lobby of the Grand Floridian, past the life - sized Gingerbread House and little girls in princess dresses who are off to character meals.

One day in Cincinnati, Majerus was walking through a lobby when he heard a guy say about him, «That's somebody.

I knew it was near the hotel, but did not realize it was directly through the lobby until we arrived (not sure why I did not put the two together)!

«You should not be walking through the lobbies with Jeremy Corbyn and a bunch of terrorist sympathisers,» the prime minister told the gathering, according to The Guardian.

He was booted out of the Senate in February after being convicted of misdemeanor assault against girlfriend Karla Giraldo in October 2009 for a December 2008 incident in which he slashed Giraldo's face with a broken glass and pulled her through the lobby of his apartment by her hair.

«I can not conceive of circumstances where Labour MPs are marshalled to go through the lobby and vote against us staying in the customs union and the single market, with the likes of Jacob Rees - Mogg, Boris Johnson and Michael Gove,» said Mr Umunna.

And end the Coalition it emphatically would: No smoke and mirrors «nudge nudge, wink wink» to Lib Dem backbenchers to vote the boundary changes down whilst Ministers went through the lobby with their Conservative colleagues: No this will have to be a D'Artagnan moment: «All for one and one for all»!

Of the six Tory rebels, most have quite a lot of «form» when it comes to walking through the lobbies against the Government line:

This seemed odd, for there is no real difference between the Lib Dem and Tory ministers who will march through the lobbies later this evening.

The question every member must ask themselves as they go through the lobby tonight is: do they trust the people?»

Kristen, having already passed through the lobby, with its wing chairs and its gilded half - clad cherubs, arrived in a small room in a quiet corner of the «Club Floor,» a special wing for V.I.P.'s.