Sentence examples for local lobbying from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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.

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.

The ordinance, passed after a feisty local lobbying effort, prompted a lawsuit now being mulled by New York State's highest court, the Court of Appeals, whose ruling could settle the long-simmering issue of whether the state's municipalities can ban the drilling process.

The project had been delayed multiple times and local lobbying interests including Union Carbide threatened to back out of opening corporate locations in the area of the new extension, which in 1976 was slated to cost $20 million (1976 USD).

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).

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.

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".

Still, twenty-one remains the traditional age of enfranchisement in most Western democracies, including forty-six of the United States….The local lobby for the eighteen-year-old vote is a polypartisan student group known as CALVA — Consolidated Association to Lower the Voting Age….