Its success depends on market demand, not political lobbying.

This will expose the EGF to wasteful political posturing and lobbying by countries and sectors.

Lobbying and Transparency

It depends how you define lobbying.

Another strategy trained women for participation in national politics and political parties by helping them develop advocacy and lobbying skills.

When I first entered Parliament in 1970, I would not say that lobbying was in its infancy because lobbying goes back to the 19th Century and before, but there was less organised lobbying.

The animal welfare movement, despite its broad public support, has been unable to compete in the arena of political lobbying and campaign donations.

(So, too, did the tobacco companies spend vast sums on political lobbying and bogus science to deny the links between smoking and lung cancer.)

I can't say that I am a lobbying expert.

Only such changes including lobbying reforms can restore effective governance.

They're also doing a great job of lobbying the government.

Lobbying on behalf of girls, for 0.5 billion in 2001.

Lobbying is something that is going on all the time.

Properly designed and executed, institutional reform could also increase BCB accountability to society at large while guarding against undue political influence and lobbying by the big banks.

This lobbying group changed its name in 1993 to BirdLife International.

NGOs, too, have an indispensable part to play in monitoring and lobbying.

lobbying for these crummy governments to do what needs to be done.

This reduces the willingness of institutional investors to invest in counteracting insider lobbying.

There is lobbying going on all the time and on almost every subject.

On the second panel, more focussed on the control of lobbying, the staff of the European Commissioners unanimously asserted to be satisfied with the lobbying register introduced a year ago in the EU.

In Costa Rica, the rice industry took the traditional route of lobbying for protection.

This was partly due to lobbying by the scientific community on behalf of Oppenheimer.

In the US, the Hardwood Federation was established with the objective of lobbying government.

It is the nature of governance that determines whether people deploy their talents and energy in pursuit of innovation, production, and job creation, or in rent seeking and lobbying for political protection.

MADRID The American Israel Public Affairs Committee s lobbying power in the United States is undeniable.

Backroom lobbying by powerful corporations now dominates policymaking negotiations, from which the public is excluded.

At the Centre apos s suggestion, the Secretariat has established a review and lobbying committee.

But institutional investors usually do not provide a sufficient counter weight to lobbying by corporate insiders.

Second, like the financial sector, the tech industry is enormously influential politically through contributions and lobbying.

Most of the projects and programmes implemented had been successful as a result of focused lobbying.

Your Honor, I'm simply attempting to establish Miss Partridge's motive... in taking this socalled lobbying trip.

Their lobbying, which is carried out at the expense of their companies, is subsidized by their shareholders.

For example, legal scholar Cao Siyuan began writing on, lobbying for, and organizing conferences about constitutional reform.

Vučić's administration had been lobbying other countries to vote against Kosovo's membership within the relevant UN bodies.

But institutional investors usually do not provide a sufficient counter weight to lobbying by corporate insiders. In contrast to corporate insiders, institutional investors cannot charge the costs of lobbying to the publicly traded companies whose investor protection is at stake.

It is a difficult subject to address, and doing so is impeded by lobbying efforts and incomplete information.

Lobbying advocacy National Network of Women Ministers and Parliamentarians and the Association of Traditional Chiefs of the Niger.

At the moment Congress was considering amendments to the Penal Code, and lobbying efforts were naturally concentrated there.

You could join other leaders in mandating, lobbying for mandated cap and trade in U.S. greenhouse gas reductions.

Charities, campaigning groups and commercial interests also seek to influence Parliamentarians by lobbying for their point of view.

It also works on lobbying and promoting the issue of sustainable steppe land use management at legislative level.

Uribe has spent weeks directly and personally lobbying key American legislators, and he is undoubtedly his own best advocate.

The party has poured several million dollars into lobbying in the US to present the opposition as pro Russian.

UNMIL is conducting public awareness activities and lobbying to facilitate the passage of the legislation in the near future.

Moreover, those who make decisions for institutional investors often have interests that discourage lobbying for stronger constraints on corporate insiders.