The business of governing Brazil is first and foremost about putting together and managing a coalition of political parties that span the ideological spectrum, share a voracious appetite for government jobs and public resources, and see in every piece of legislation an opportunity to extract a concession from the executive.
With farm subsidy programs expiring at the end of September, the Freedom Caucus believes the farm bill is the only must-pass piece of legislation they can use to extract concessions on immigration, which they believe is a related issue to the farm bill anyway.
Due to data protection legislation, we were not permitted to extract unit-specific data.
He might not get his plan through Congress, sure, but he could use his promise to extract other useful legislation from Congress.
And in 1970, at the urging of, among others, Emma Miller, now ninety-four, Martha Griffiths used a discharge petition to extract Equal Rights Amendment legislation from Celler's Judiciary Committee.
They are being paid to extract rents by influencing legislation on behalf of their corporate clients.
To the extent there was disagreement, it related to how far Labor should have pushed the government to extract further concessions and improvements to the legislation.
In return for supporting the minority Labour government of James Callaghan, Steel was able to extract a number of concessions, including an agreement to consult the Liberals on legislation prior to its presentation in Parliament.
Last December, ALEC adopted model legislation, based on a Texas law, addressing the public disclosure of chemicals in drilling fluids used to extract natural gas through hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
Publishers have lobbied the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel to draft legislation that would create a new kind of copyright for online content; German publishers say this could serve as a lever to extract revenue from search engines and news aggregators.
