Sentence examples for interest groups over from inspiring English sources

Promises to special interest groups: over $10 billion.

"They're interested in supporting special interest groups over hungry Americans".

The company, which disputes these estimates, is negotiating separately with the various interest groups over the fate of the dams.

His predecessor, Andrew Natsios, sought to weaken the hold of what he sometimes called a cartel of domestic interest groups over foreign aid.

After clashes with entrenched interest groups over education, firehouse closings and other knotty issues, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is seeking to bring his business-minded, results-based approach to an especially challenging constituency: the elderly.

But AT&T is one of the most powerful lobbyists on Capitol Hill, and its lavish donations to special interest groups over the years have seen it garner support for the merger from some unlikely quarters.

Donors are deeply enmeshed in the political process, having directly or indirectly supported nearly every interest group over time, not least the corrupt state.

Until Washington gets the courage to trust the American people to handle hard and sobering decisions -- and develops a plan of action that does not favor one interest group over another -- real economic solutions are not going to come from Washington.

As a member of Team Huntington Beach, a three-member coalition that includes Joe Shaw and former Mayor Connie Boardman, Farley believes the city in recent years has favored developers and special-interest groups over residents, and he is determined to change that.

"What happened here is the many special interest groups won over the silent majority, and so many officials were just swayed by popular opinion rather than looking at all the facts," Ms. Bower said.

And the notion that public schools will produce social harmony is not weakened just by the politicization of the public-school curriculum, as ethnic groups and special interest groups fight over who owns history.