Sentence examples for local lobbies from inspiring English sources

When transposing EU directives into national laws, local lobbies will often push for some ambiguous wording to be used.

This unsung success story, in the teeth of political opposition from corrupt local lobbies, deserves careful study elsewhere (not least in Greece).

Despite campaigns by local lobbies and charities, the penal code in Lebanon still imposes lighter sentences for crimes of honour.While praising the Syrian amendment, human-rights advocates point out that the law in Syria and elsewhere still accepts the basic notion that you can kill for honour, and argue for a more fundamental change in the attitudes of those who write the law and implement it.

Development cooperation is influenced by the international and domestic context, the self-perception and the international image of states, the domestic public support and local lobbies, the national structure and international current affairs, as well as, national identity, history and cultural heritage.

As noted above, the first assumption may be justified by reference to geographical as well as cultural distance between the central supervisor and the local bank, while the second may be justified by reference to the looser connections between the central supervisor and local lobbies and pressure groups.

And since tobacco companies here act mainly as distributors, the industry has no local lobbying power to create opposition within the government, he argued.

Ms. Dillon, meanwhile, with a dedicated local lobbying effort, successfully pressed the state to turn the abandoned rail line through the canyon into a 42-mile bike trail.

Fighting off a proposed housing and retail developments, The Dreamland Trust, a local lobby group set up to get the park reopened, secured funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Government's SeaChange Scheme.

Late last month, John Podner, senior projects manager for Century Strategies, sent e-mails to local lobbying firms across the country, asking them to send him resumes of the Bush supporters who were to write the letters.

All sorts of local lobby groups battled plans for separated cycle lanes, most famously over one eventually built outside Brooklyn's Prospect Park, a route once described as "the most controversial slab of cement outside the Gaza Strip".

An internal review of the situation made by the law firm White & Case on behalf of Deutsche Telekom concluded last December that employees at Magyar Telekom and its Macedonian and Montenegrin subsidiaries had made €31 million in improper payments to 20 local lobbying and consulting companies, including some incorporated in Cyprus.