Sentence examples for democratic telecommunications from inspiring English sources

"He wants to be independent, to make decisions free from the influence of special interests — God bless him," said Kim Bayliss, a Democratic telecommunications lobbyist.

A Republican Congress and a Democratic President enshrined in the Telecommunications Act of 1996 the principle that the Internet should be a 'vibrant and competitive free market... unfettered by Federal or State regulation.' … The Internet has been an amazing success story, changing our lives and the world in ways that would have been unimaginable when the 1996 Act was passed.

But in remarks before the committee votes, Bush warned that he would not sign the Democratic legislation unless it gives U.S. telecommunications firms retroactive immunity from lawsuits for lending assistance in counterterrorism investigations after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Democratic Congressional aides said Sunday that some telecommunications company officials had told Congressional leaders that they were unhappy with that provision in the bill and might challenge the new law in court.

Lynn Forester de Rothschild, a top Clinton fund-raiser, telecommunications entrepreneur and member of the Democratic national convention's platform committee, said she had questions about Mr. Obama's trustworthiness.

Warner, a tall, raspy-voiced businessman who earned a fortune in telecommunications and venture capital, served as the Democratic governor of Virginia from 2002 to 2006, when Kaine was his lieutenant governor.

WASHINGTON — Two top Democratic legislators said Monday that they would begin a process to modernize telecommunications laws that were last overhauled in 1996 but barely mention the Internet.

Perhaps most important in the eyes of Democratic supporters, the House bill would not give retroactive immunity to the telecommunications utilities that participated in the eavesdropping.

As the first decade of democratic rule draws to a close in South Africa, this paper reviews the telecommunications reform process in terms of the performance of the sector against the twin national policy objectives of affordable access to communications services and accelerated development to meet the needs of a modern economy.

Democratic Congressional aides said Sunday that they believed that pressure from major telecommunications companies on the White House was a major factor in persuading the Bush administration to do that.

"We have not been participating in the telecommunications revolution," lamented State Representative John Rusche, a retired pediatrician, a former health insurance executive and the Democratic leader in the State House.