Sentence examples for development lobby from inspiring English sources

But it asked the development lobby – house-builders, property owners and others – how to do so.

Commercial interests now seem omnipotent, parroting the cry of the development lobby everywhere that they are synonymous with "jobs, growth and the future".

Perhaps it's because the development lobby to which they are so much in thrall says the mining industry will ratchet up the rate of GDP growth dramatically and provide employment to the people it displaces.

The development lobby has dismissed it both for being a vanity project (no prizes for guessing whose) and for trying to apply first world solutions to third world problems.

However development lobby groups say they are disappointed by the $5bn pledge.

Moreover, the development lobby has had the knives out for CEQA almost since its enactment in 1970.

Development lobbies, such as Oxfam, think poor countries get a raw deal out of the world trading system.

Prominent citizens, fearful of commercial lakefront development, lobbied the commissioners to set aside open space along the lakefront.

Charlie Matthews, parliamentary adviser, Sightsavers, Brighton, UK @CharlieMTweets @Sightsavers_Pol Charlie has international development lobbying experience from Sightsavers, Save the Children UK and the Institute of Development Studies.

Billions of dollars of public and private money has been spent on research and development, lobbying and the acquisition of seed companies, yet only 17.3m out of a total 513m (3.4%) farmers have ever actually planted GM crops, and most of these have been growing cotton rather than food.

Mike Hearn, a BitcoinJ developer, developed Lighthouse, a crowdfunding application of the bitcoin blockchain that was more specifically built to fund bitcoin core development, lobbying and community involvement and — like Swarm and Koinify — next-generation bitcoin projects.