Democratic politicians everywhere vie for the support of ethnic lobbies.

Policy is driven by three I s ideas, institutions, and interests (i.e., lobbies).

A US president can challenge political constraints only by taking on powerful lobbies.

A well resourced financial sector intensively lobbies the most influential governments in global finance.

But that was only after five years of intransigence by Europe s even more powerful farm lobbies.

Industrial lobbies and labor unions are pushing hard for these sanctions to take effect more quickly.

Many people think that the oligarchs, with their lobbies in the Parliament, want these lands for private use.

Second, it leaves time for anti reform lobbies to organize and prevent any progress toward completion of the reform effort.

The result is that the many lobbies that oppose increased competition, or fight to protect state aid, have been hugely weakened.

Obama also faces falling support from business lobbies in manufacturing and services sectors that are demanding more concessions from other nations.

The redistribution implicit in many pension systems is often far from clean.'' Many systems entail politically motivated privileges for powerful lobbies.

Although the concept has not yet become a draft bill, it already has a snazzy website that lobbies for the idea.

Pensioners are among the most powerful lobbies in a democracy, and politicians are loath to confront them on so fundamental an issue.

Europe, Japan, and (to a much lesser extent) the US, were simply unwilling to face down their small but influential farm lobbies.

The technologies are available and will get better and cheaper with use, if only fossil fuel lobbies can be held at bay.

While the rhetoric of commitment to the round remains, in practice there has been a surrender to defensive lobbies clinging to the status quo.

Wherever powerful lobbies defend existing coal or oil interests, politicians typically are afraid to tell the truth about the need for low carbon energy.

The need to wrestle with macroeconomic policy issues could easily cause talks to bog down and give protectionist lobbies the political ammunition they need.

In France, President Jacques Chirac, the epitome of a leader captured by his lobbies, is staggering impotently toward the end of his term in 2007.

Since 1980, a virtual prison industrial complex'' has arisen, with phenomenal rates of new prison construction abetted by lucrative construction and prison guard union lobbies.

Since then, these products have entered almost everyone s consciousness we see people using them everywhere on the street and in hotel lobbies, restaurants, and airports.

That means facing down the myriad interest groups from industry lobbies to trade unions and entrenched bureaucracies that have (so far) successfully protected their turfs.

In his efforts to get things done, Putin prefers to deal directly with powerful industries and lobbies, rather than shape laws through a rather tame Duma.

Most economists stress the superiority of the free trade model and point to the power of lobbies and interest groups to explain its unpopularity in practice.

A day before, Tejal would hand out pamphlets explaining their mission and paste posters in elevators and apartment lobbies spreading awareness on the looming water crisis.

These social anxieties are not being addressed because financial sector bailouts, stimulus packages, and help for distressed industries with strong lobbies are testing many governments financial limits.

But their ability to grow is being impaired because they lack the resources to confront the massive business lobbies of the EU s most developed and richest countries.

Red Cross volunteers set up card tables in the lobbies of expensive apartment buildings where financial analysts, lawyers, and rock stars live, to inform residents of the offer.

Political lobbies that oversee these sectors and overlap with certain factions in the Party are simply too powerful for nascent interests in society and the bureaucracy to parry.

Red Cross volunteers set up card tables in the lobbies of expensive apartment buildings where financial analysts, lawyers, and rock stars live, to inform residents of the offer.

This is happening while pro war lobbies in the U.S. are spending millions of dollars on campaigns to kill this deal and the prospect for a sustainable peace.

Privatization, market liberalization, the opening of closed professions, and government downsizing involve conflicts with powerful vested interests, such as businesses in protected industries, public sector unions, or influential lobbies.

He denies that he lobbies for the advancement of any kind of lists and says that he does not intend to hinder human rights activists from visiting arrested opposition members.

I am convinced, for example, that over the years there has been too much regulatory capture by the supply side of the financial services market, with its well organized and powerful lobbies.

While Japan's government lobbies hard to get a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, its Prime Minister regularly flouts Asian opinion by paying his respects to war criminals at the Yasukuni Shrine.

From the CIA, to the international Jewish conspiracy, to an interest rate lobby, to Lufthansa Airlines, to a mysterious telekinetic attack by dark forces the list of so called lobbies has become extensive.

Whereas Japan bashing included vol untary restraints on exports that threatened US heavy industries, where lobbies were concentrated and politically potent, recent Chinese exports have mainly been low to middle tech products of light industry.

The recent catastrophic collapse of global trade talks is not an encouraging harbinger. Europe, Japan, and (to a much lesser extent) the US, were simply unwilling to face down their small but influential farm lobbies.

Those who see dark American forces behind all that is wrong with the world, from financial crashes to the violence in Ukraine, are prone to detect the malign hand of Israeli or even Jewish lobbies in every US policy.

Since 1980, a virtual prison industrial complex'' has arisen, with phenomenal rates of new prison construction abetted by lucrative construction and prison guard union lobbies. Several states, including California, now spend more on prisons than they do on higher education.

Located on the 44th and 78th floors of each tower, the sky lobbies enabled the elevators to be used efficiently, increasing the amount of usable space on each floor from 62 to 75 percent by reducing the number of elevator shafts.

It would also levy punitive tariffs on greenhouse gas intensive products imported from countries that lack comparable action to that of the US, starting in 2020. Industrial lobbies and labor unions are pushing hard for these sanctions to take effect more quickly.

Although supposedly designed in the interests of the workers in developing countries, the biggest opposition to them comes from poor countries, and rightly so. The form that these standards take and the increasing talk of using trade sanctions to impose them is close to what protectionist lobbies in industrial nations seek.

Moreover, a deep and prolonged recession implies vanishing support for reforms, as governments fail to convince citizens that current sacrifice will ensure a better future. Privatization, market liberalization, the opening of closed professions, and government downsizing involve conflicts with powerful vested interests, such as businesses in protected industries, public sector unions, or influential lobbies.

The parallels between the oil spill andtherecent financial crisis are all too painful the promise of innovation, unfathomable complexity, and lack of transparency (scientists estimate that we know only a very small fraction of what goes on at the oceans depths.) Wealthy and politically powerful lobbies put enormous pressure on even the most robust governance structures.