Sentence examples for hostile lobbying from inspiring English sources

After all, despite a year of hostile lobbying by the insurance firms, the Democrat-controlled Congress approved sweeping changes to their industry in late March.

That may prove to be a mistake, says Mr Bodie.America's Financial Accounting Standards Board FASBB) has said it intends to improve pension-fund accounting, though it remains to be seen if it can do a better job of resisting hostile lobbying from companies than it did when it proposed tougher accounting for employee share options.

Even so, he seems to regard the legal system as part of the government bureaucracy that needs to be made more honest and efficient, rather than something that should be a power in its own right to rival the Kremlin.Besides, even the modest reforms now being considered may not survive hostile lobbying from the prosecutors, Russia's self-styled champions of legality and state interests.

But the product has been dogged by stories of a nasty oily discharge; by claims that it inhibits the absorption of vitamins and nutrients that may help prevent cancer; by a hostile lobby group, the Centre for Science in the Public Interest; and by regulatory problems.

When General Dynamics and Newport News announced their deal on April 25, analysts speculated that Northrop Grumman might try to thwart the combination, either by making a hostile bid or by lobbying against it in Congress.

One offers domestic slash-and-burn (strategically unalluring but guaranteed to boost efficiency), the other global vision (more imaginative but reliant on often-elusive "revenue synergies").The hostile duo has begun lobbying merger arbitrageurs, who buy shares in acquisition targets hoping to profit from the gap between the trading and sale prices.

After the early-80s wave of "hostile takeovers", managers lobbied successfully to strengthen regulatory bulwarks against open-market coups by competing managers.The upshot, according to Mr Roe, is that America "is less capitalist than it is 'managerialist.' Managers, not owners, get the final say in corporate decisions".

These Fifield measures and plans are the result of backroom deals with minor parties and lobbying from corporate interests hostile to the ABC.

Now there are thousands of them: blacklisting corrupt politicians at election time, lobbying for friendlier (or more hostile) ties with North Korea, networking with foreign NGOs and, of course, campaigning against globalisation.Electronic communications help make societies less hierarchical.

After graduating [from the University of California at Santa Barbara] in 1971, I went to work at the state capital, lobbying to turn around a very hostile legislative view of (college) students.

Instead, companies are exposed to a hostile takeover and are forced to fight these bids by lobbying shareholders directly.