Adaptive responses of the organization included a shift in emphasis from direct legislative advocacy to advocacy directed at the implementation of policy and grassroots advocacy.
Both are said to be examining attempts by Mr. Espada — who was elected Senate president on Monday, although his elevation was being challenged in court — to direct legislative earmarks to a Bronx nonprofit group that he founded, Soundview HealthCare Network.
Although the European Council has no direct legislative power, under the "emergency brake" procedure, a state outvoted in the Council of Ministers may refer contentious legislation to the European Council.
This lack of direct legislative attention may have resulted in the proliferation of a largely unregulated industry; London alone has approximately 400 known waterpipe-serving premises [ 16], the industry has been shown to market their products with misleading descriptors [ 17].
It is followed by agricultural waste plastic, which, although not under direct legislative obligation to increase recovery, is subject to economic incentives linked to the availability of homogenous materials.
Brown in particular has had to fend off the naysayers as it became clear that the advent of Obama did not mean the end of climate gridlock in Washington and as Waxman's direct legislative approach languished, especially after the Republican takeover of the House in 2010.
Indeed, it is tempting to suggest that the failure to achieve a substantial progress in the target of reducing the loss of biodiversity by 2010 was strongly related to the lack of direct legislative support provided to this target.
Gov. George E. Pataki issued a direct challenge to legislative leaders today, vetoing a bill that would have given school districts an extra two weeks to present their budgets to voters.
His résumé is ideal: He directed legislative affairs for the first President Bush, served in Congress for more than a decade and managed the Office of Management and Budget under Bush the younger.
It is his continued disinterest in childhood cancer, whether perceived or actual, as well as his disdain for directed legislative action aimed at NCI that I personally believe frustrates those of us who seek an increase in federal funding for childhood cancer.
