The groups pressed their case in a recent meeting with Barry Jackson, a top aide to the president, but they said they received no assurances.
In recent years, as international sanctions began to sap his strength, Liberian rebel groups pressed their advantage; and in June, when a U.N.-sponsored war-crimes tribunal in Sierra Leone indicted Taylor on charges of crimes against humanity, the scene in Liberia once again turned apocalyptic.
Yet many of the laws that right-to-life groups have pressed for in recent years have tended to produce the opposite effect, resulting in later abortions.
Pro-gun groups have pressed the issue in the last few years in states as diverse as Alaska, Ohio, Oregon and Tennessee.
Barber B. Conable Jr., a former Congressman and past president of the World Bank who is one of the six independent board members, noted that shareholder groups have pressed for similar changes in A.I.G. governance in the past.
A group of government supporters rallied behind them shouting: "With our blood and soul we sacrifice our lives to Abu Hussein [King Abdullah]." The two groups were pressed against each other in a narrow street, and eyewitnesses say a small group of men attacked the activists with sticks and stones before the police restored order.
The Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights group, first pressed Psychology Today in February to remove all advertisements that purported to help gay people become straight through counseling, a practice that is roundly condemned by the mainstream mental health community.
The Institute for Justice and other libertarian-leaning groups teamed up with the American Civil Liberties Union and left-leaning groups to press for changes in the wake of The Post's investigation.
An article on Wednesday about technology companies that are joining forces with immigrant groups to press for changes in immigration law misstated the current basic annual cap on H-1B temporary work visas.
Today the Bitcoin Foundation announced that it has retained a lobbying group to press its interests in the nations capital.
