Sentence examples for favourable legislation from inspiring English sources

Thousands of area residents work as lobbyists, seeking favourable legislation for the interests they represent.

Favourable legislation helped to turn a tide of consolidation that had left America with under 50 breweries by the 1970s.

O'Neill estimates that there are 70 lobbyists working for Airbnb in the US, trying to get favourable legislation passed to benefit the company.

Favourable legislation and, in some countries, direct political action have established collective bargaining as the principal means of settling disputes over wages, working conditions, and other issues.

Much of British power comes from financial trading, from acting as a gateway to Europe for industry and from property – shifting, insecure bases for the future, since they depend so heavily on favourable legislation.

During the actual construction (1863 69) of the Central Pacific Railroad, Huntington lobbied for the company in the east, working to secure financing and favourable legislation from Congress and the federal government.

The Tribunal also pointed to the Canadian government interfering in Honduran and Colombian legislative processes in order to push for more favourable mining legislation.

He led the fight for favourable copyright legislation, passed in 1909, and he helped found the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) in 1914.

favourable environmental legislation.

Party politics flourished, and legislation favourable to labour was passed.

The alleged contacts, according to a "pentito", Salvatore Cancemi, were to lead to legislation favourable to Cosa Nostra, and protection from the consequences of Falcone's murder.