Sentence examples for shadow organizations from inspiring English sources

The so-called moderates have mostly left the convention, forming a series of shadow organizations, each of which emerges with a larger letterhead and smaller numbers.

From today's RNC fundraising e-mail, headed "Don't Let the Democrats 'Franken' This Election" and signed by Michael Steele: Democrat [sic] lawyers, liberal shadow organizations and Big Labor are gearing up to challenge our Election Day victories in the courts.

By Hendrik Hertzberg October 29, 2010 From today's RNC fundraising e-mail, headed "Don't Let the Democrats 'Franken' This Election" and signed by Michael Steele: Democrat [sic] lawyers, liberal shadow organizations and Big Labor are gearing up to challenge our Election Day victories in the courts.

Those shadow organizations, fueled by huge corporate dollars, pumped hundreds of millions from unidentified sources into attack ads against Dems across the country.

This movement (whose American branch was the Socialist Workers Partyy) proved to be little more than a shadow organization, although a small founding conference was officially held in France in 1938.

In Congressional hearings, Senator Abraham A. Ribicoff, a Democrat from Connecticut, called it "really a shadow organization, with no bite, no clout, no ability to really achieve any basic results for consumers".

And it was heightened by the purchase of air time in New York, California and Ohio by the clean-air group, which Mr. McCain's campaign said was a "shadow organization" operating with the approval of Mr. Bush's campaign.

"But I can also look at the vampires and see them as a kind of terrifying shadow organization that is going to do what they want to do, whether they have to break the law or not.

Mr. Kerry has turned to an old friend and Washington hand, James A. Johnson, who has set up a shadow organization to help Mr. Kerry make what aides say will be his most important decision before the convention.

Underlining the extent to which he is setting up a shadow organization, Mr. Kerry's aides said that Mr. Johnson was not using any of the campaign staff members to help him, relying instead on volunteers, and that he had had contacts on this subject with just two of Mr. Kerry's campaign advisers.

The first is the UNOS Foundation, a six-year-old shadow organization run by UNOS staffers.