Sentences with phrase «used lobbying power»

They have used lobbying power and the threat of financing primary opponents, using the same techniques we saw in the past with Big Tobacco to falsely create doubt.

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Further, Conrad believes the small business owners that use Zenefits have enough lobbying power to help the company avoid future regulatory fights.

Their lobbying power is always visible and it is used to threaten our spineless law makers at every turn.

The term connotes the business and lobbying power of soft drink companies who, like Big Oil and Big Tobacco, would use that power to influence politicians and voters.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

The Stonewall Democrats of WNY and another group, Outspoken for Equality, issued a joined statement thanking the singer for, as Stonewall President Bryan Ball put it, using «her power and influence to encourage Western New Yorkers to lobby our new Sen. Mark Gristanti on why it is crucial he support civil marriage equality in New York.»

Lobbying is asking the government to use its power in a way beneficial to a specific individual / organization.

Clinton accused gunmakers and the gun lobby of using their money and power to coerce members of Congress to do their bidding, as she promised to work for new gun - control measures if elected president.

Dicker says Cuomo is getting the landlord lobby to agree to the change by threatening to use his emergency powers to kick the issue down to the New York City Council, which inevitably would lead to legislation much more favorable to tenants.

Power Trips documents the use, and misuse, of congressional travel and Playing the Lobbying Game explores how it works.

An electronic paper sign, for example, will require no cables, running on batteries for months on end or achieving self - sustainability through the use of solar power, all the while providing impeccable visibility even in the bright sun of the campus grounds or the fluorescent light of the lobby.

DESIGN & BALANCE Level cap raised to 35 Reviewed all survival events: obstacles have a lesser slow down effect Added Pure Time Attack game mode in Quick Race Slightly increased Turbo performances for Conqueror, Lunare, ESA Slightly increased engine power for ESA Slightly increased wall damage (10 %) Solved a bug for which the AI would very rarely use powerups Fixed some contracts that would propose the wrong event and / or the wrong reward AUDIO & VISUALS Option to change audio to 5.1 or 2.0 Added Windowed / Fullscreen option Audio feedback for lobby countdown start BUGFIXES & STUFF Solved problem with corrupted save files (famous RedoutSettings.sav), causing the game to hang in the loading screen.

In the meanwhile, environmentalists use this propaganda to lobby statists into grabbing even mroe power.

While ALEC purports to spend zero dollars on lobbying, Exxon has deliberately used ALEC for the past two decades to advance its legislative goals concerning cap - and - trade policies, fracking, the Keystone Pipeline and the Obama Administration's Clean Power Plan.

There is the real situation that the «green (house) minority» has diminishing Public interest due its incessant platforming of non-SCIENCE and the attachment of equally vapid demands for «Wind Power» to replace Gas and Coal (which in REALITY is only creating the growing need and thus INTEREST in Uranium Fuelled power generation for wide spread use) and other platforming from «alternate lobby interests&raPower» to replace Gas and Coal (which in REALITY is only creating the growing need and thus INTEREST in Uranium Fuelled power generation for wide spread use) and other platforming from «alternate lobby interests&rapower generation for wide spread use) and other platforming from «alternate lobby interests».

If the Green Power lobby thinks that it's a good thing use «1000 people for every one in the coal industry to produce the same energy», then do they also consider it good to use 1000 Green - farmers to produce the same amount of food produced by one non-Green farmer?

He used to lead the nuclear power industry's main lobbying group in the United States.

United Kingdom About Blog ADHD Action Lobbying and building awareness for much needed change using the power of people's stories.

As a long time critic of CREA's aenemic use of its «lobbying» power, I am mystified how the loss of these Quebec Boards can possibly «diminish» it.