Sentence examples for lobbying aimed from inspiring English sources

DC was a bright spot during the recession thanks to the stability of the Federal government and an influx of lobbying aimed at defanging the regulatory reaction to the financial crisis.

Boston Scientific has also spent millions on lobbying aimed at the Food and Drug Administration, CMMS, the Department of Health and Human Services, and, naturally, the U.S. House and Senate.

But this kind of international lobbying, aimed at changing particular laws, is not really what made Amnesty famous.

And two, what is the dilutive effect of options in the money?" With a wave of corporate lobbying aimed at preserving the current system of accounting for options, the administration has waded cautiously into the arcane debate.

But all too often, efforts at reform have fallen victim to special interest lobbying aimed at keeping things the way they are; to political point-scoring that sees health care not as a moral issue or an economic issue, but as a wedge issue; and to a failure on all sides to come together on behalf of the American people.

In addition, the European banking system is more fragile and vulnerable to market fluctuations because bank regulators in Europe have been less prone to demand higher capital requirements for European banks than regulators in the U.S. -- despite heavy lobbying aimed at their European counterparts by the Obama administration.

He said his group had begun a lobbying campaign aimed at state legislators.

The subsidy is all the more objectionable when so much of it seems to go into shareholders' and executives' pockets and on a huge, and so far effective, lobbying effort aimed at preserving its status.

Silicon Valley's response to the prospect of an overarching US privacy law has been predictably disingenuous — with attempts to reframe the issue under broadbrush, malleable concepts like 'control' or 'accountability'; and lobbying efforts aimed at steering regulators away from drafting rules anywhere near as robust as GDPR.

One result is strongly focused lobbying efforts aimed at favorable treatment in the specific provisions of some law or regulation.

Despite mounting evidence of the potential dangers of BPA (the chemical bisphenol-A found in many consumer products), plastics manufacturers have embarked on a public relations and lobbying blitz aimed at "obscuring or confusing the results of research," say the authors of a new white paper by the Center for Progressive Reform.