Sentences with phrase «unprecedented lobby effort»
Between 2009 and 2011 the government of Canada engaged in an unprecedented lobby effort to open up the European market to oil from its devastating tar sands.
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This is an unprecedented lobby effort to open up the European market to oil from its devastating tar sands.
blog post entitled, Buying Public Policy in CT — Corporate Education Reform Industry spends $ 6.8 + million and counting which described the unprecedented lobbying effort behind Governor Malloy's anti-public education, anti-teacher, pro-privatization «education reform» agenda.
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He acknowledged that an effort like this by economists lobbying for a candidate is unprecedented.
The Hartford Courant's story is entitled Unprecedented Charter School Lobbying Effort Prompts Some To Ask: Where Is The Money Coming From?
While Malloy and the Democratic controlled General Assembly are instituting unprecedented cuts to public schools, thanks to the «reformers» lobbying effort, more than $ 110 million in public dollars will be handed over to charter schools this year alone.
The letter, dubbed the «We Can Lead» campaign, is part of a broader effort lending support for passage of the legislation, even in the face of unprecedented lobbying from vested interests opposed to the bill (or any real action at all on climate and sustainable energy).