Sentence examples for business federation from inspiring English sources

Then there is the influence of President Otto Pérez Molina and the powerful business federation.

"The empirical evidence is against it," says Efthymios Vidalis of SEV, Greece's main business federation.

Senator Clinton's health policy advisers have briefed officials of the small- business federation.

"We are opposed to payroll taxes," said Susan Eckerly, a vice president for the business federation.

That Hiroshi Araki, TEPCO's chairman, heads the committee on corporate behaviour at Japan's biggest business federation neatly illustrates this shortcoming.

SINCE it was founded in 1946, Japan's Keidanren, or "Business Federation", has been one of the country's most powerful institutions.

Jean-François Roubaud, the head of the French small-business federation, is hearing what banks have wrought among his members.

"The left and right both politicized it," said Tamar Jacoby, president of the small-business federation ImmigrationWorks USA, and a Republican.

But one alarmed Japanese is from the core of the business establishment: Hiroshi Okuda, chairman of the Japan Business Federation.

Prime Minister Kan had been "undeniably abrupt," said Hiromasa Yonekura, chairman of Japan's most powerful business lobby, the Japan Business Federation, known here as the Keidanren.

In the meantime, business leaders like Rudolf Minsch, chief economist of the Swiss Business Federation, illustrate how the ground has shifted.