Its constituents were drawn more from particular lobbies: there were more dreadlocked anti-globalisers, more Muslims and fewer middle-aged white women.
The Administration had said loudly that it would not allow lobbyists to take positions relating to their "particular" lobbying-market niche.
But the company's critics say it has managed to obscure its particular lobbying accomplishments by working through larger trade groups with even broader agendas, making it difficult to determine exactly what role the company itself played.
Consider the law preventing Medicare from negotiating for lower drug prices: That particular lobbying project cost the industry more than $100 million — but it returns some $15 billion a year in higher payments for its products.
All higher education providers make a significant difference to the region that they serve and so policies should reflect this and not be unduly influenced by any particular lobbying group.
The Americans noted that Conversi's offer to support the US, even if discreetly, was significant because the Vatican was often reluctant to appear to compromise its independence and moral authority by associating itself with particular lobbying efforts.
In particular, lobbying pressures, technological progress and increased globalisation appear to have increased the difficulty of the optimal implementation of the direct regulation of advertising time in private platforms.
The Sugar Trust in particular lobbied for changes that favored it at the expense of the consumer.
Powerful senators such as Charles Schumer, Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein, and Frank Lautenberg have decried the fact that British Petroleum in particular lobbied the U.K. government to free Megrahi so it could gain access to Libyan oil fields.
(His daughter and son-in-law happen to own substantial property in this particular 'nowhere'.) Down the coast a ways, California representative Jerry Lewis (R., former chairman of the House Appropriations Committee) approved hundreds of millions of dollars in federal projects for the clients of a particular lobbying firm.
