"Extraordinary service delivered with ingenuity, energy, and compassion; Commitment beyond the call of duty; Responsiveness to public needs...; Outstanding and reliable performance; Willingness to take risks...to improve services or correct abuses or inequities; Ability to adapt to change...; Dedication to upholding public interest amidst competing interests, pressures, and demands".
Finally, others have argued that civil societal interests, pressures, and mobilization strategies are important for incentivizing governments to pursue institutional change [ 7, 38, 39].
In addition, lawmakers would be held accountable for blocking good ideas because of partisanship or special interest pressure.
Federal officials should be listening to this majority voice and not buckle under to special-interest pressure.
It would be unthinkable that private interest pressure from European pharmaceutical companies to preserve an obsolete business model could prevail over common sense, common interest and the health of millions of people.
By taking its cues from popular opinion and from public-interest pressure groups, by being a sort of sincere proxy for democracy, it has become an effective critic of the commission's many shortcomings.
This is assuming that Boko Haram, the gobby, stupid and violent minority-interest pressure group, are of similar mind to their Malian counterparts Ansar Dine, who have stated that they want to ban football.
The potential for special interest pressure on the Committee of Twelve will be enormous.
Political meddling and special interest pressure can only tarnish the award.
Part of what appears to be bolstering the support he does have is his supposed business success and his claim to be insulated from special interest pressure by "self-funding" his campaign.
The "Menton Declaration" followed two days of heated debate on issues ranging from journalists barred from coverage of the recent Israeli onslaught on Gaza, to harassment and assassination, living with dictatorships, protection of sources, conflict of interest, pressure from advertisers and dealing with new media.
