Microsoft says it has lobbied both likely presidential nominees, Vice President Al Gore and Gov. George W. Bush, to influence their views of the case and to counter lobbying by its competitors.
That takes forever and can easily be counter-lobbied by corporations.
The American effort has prompted counter-lobbying by European opponents who have been pressing smaller Eastern European nations, indicating that their chances of joining the European Union might be hurt if they cooperated with the United States, one Council diplomat said.
The G77 countries are a group of more than a hundred less industrialized countries, which set up as a counter-lobby to developed G7 countries (Adams 2001 89).
It is a much less polite document -- essentially a battle plan: a call for a counter-lobby as wealthy and relentless as the National Rifle Association.
I've been desperately promoting an obvious solution since the Newtown massacre: a counter-lobby to take on the National Rifle Association, dollar for dollar, using their own grotesquely successful tactics to bring them down.
Sharing economy businesses often operate within challenging regulatory environments and can expect fierce counter-lobbying from those whose market share is threatened.
These successes were achieved despite the extremely well funded counter-lobbying of the tobacco industry.
Many threats have come from the ASA or their proxies, resulting in continuous lobbying and counter-lobbying by AANA and its members at the state and federal level over regulations and legislation related to CNRA autonomy, scope of practice, and reimbursement for services.
The better approach is to counter existing lobbying with more lobbying.
To counter the lobbying, leaders of the nation's top financial regulatory agencies voted unanimously in July to support Ms. Schapiro's ideas.
