Sentence examples for advocacy machine from inspiring English sources

Two recent events have exposed the limits and authenticity of the well-oiled, professional advocacy machine so central to NGOs today.

After all the years of international diplomacy, sanctions, billions of dollars spent on peacekeepers and an extremely well-oiled advocacy machine that elevated Darfur into a worldwide cause célèbre, attracting the likes of George Clooney and Mia Farrow, parts of Darfur finally appear to be turning around, for a few reasons.

Unfortunately, the program has morphed into a political advocacy machine that wants to change the system to one that assumes that almost all persons with mental illness are always well enough to make their own decisions.

In northern Brooklyn some advocacy groups reported numerous complaints about broken machines and the absence of emergency paper ballots.

While it is probably too early to make a definitive judgment on the optical scan machines, even some of the advocacy groups that supported them are open to having hand recounts.

Bare-knuckled political machines masquerading as nonprofit social advocacy organizations are romping through the tax code on the strength of their own avowals that their blind attack ads serve the public interest.

Organizing for Action, the pro-Obama advocacy group spun off from the president's campaign machine, announced an important change today: It will not accept corporate contributions.

In her advocacy role, Ms. Maxwell works the telephone and the fax machine, reminding members of meetings, setting up appointments with politicians.

The Solicitor General's Office, the appellate advocacy arm of the Department of Justice, is a little-known litigation machine that has an active role in Supreme Court and other appeals court cases in which the interests of the United States are at stake. .

The gold standard was less popular in the South, but there Bayard stacked his years-long advocacy in the Senate for pro-Southern conservative policies against Tilden's political machine and wealth in the contest for Southern delegates.

In 2010, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, an advocacy group, sued to block the use of body scanners, arguing that the machines violated travelers' constitutional rights.