Even today, the banking lobby runs roughshod over regulators and politicians.

Policy is driven by three I s ideas, institutions, and interests (i.e., lobbies).

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The proof is the existence of the almost omnipotent, and in all states, omnipresent lobby.

Democratic politicians everywhere vie for the support of ethnic lobbies.

The gun lobby in the US remains powerful, and politicians are afraid to counter it.

True, in the endgame of the talks, the US caved in to its wealthy and powerful agribusiness lobby.

From the CIA, to the international Jewish conspiracy, to an interest rate lobby, to Lufthansa Airlines, to a mysterious telekinetic attack by dark forces the list of so called lobbies has become extensive.

In Brazil, the pension plan of private sector workers runs a small surplus, but that of civil servants runs an enormous deficit, equivalent to of 4.5 of Brazil's GDP.

A US president can challenge political constraints only by taking on powerful lobbies.

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As Anatoly Nikolaev, head of Zarubezh Expo, a Russian industrial lobby observed

It would also levy punitive tariffs on greenhouse gas intensive products imported from countries that lack comparable action to that of the US, starting in 2020. Industrial lobbies and labor unions are pushing hard for these sanctions to take effect more quickly.

Industrial lobbies and labor unions are pushing hard for these sanctions to take effect more quickly.

For this reason, US diplomats are lobbying hard for the OSCE, and Kazakhstan in particular, to be given a fair chance.

In the Lobby Bar, Mr. Putin asked musicians to let him take over at the piano, and he performed Blueberry Hill for the Finnish delegation.

The powerful US cotton lobby wants no change in the level of payments, however.

In the following decades there was a constant battle between the company lobby and the Parliament.

In a paper published prior to the release of their much debated book The Israel Lobby, they argued

The result is that the many lobbies that oppose increased competition, or fight to protect state aid, have been hugely weakened.

He knows that, although the Serbian lobby is weak in the US, it is all powerful in Serbia.

And that is why the Israel Lobby must keep constant pressure on US politicians to confront Tehran.

The President's attempts to bring in stricter gun control laws have been thwarted time and time again by the powerful gun lobby.

For example, Steve Walt and John Mearsheimer, in their notorious essay The Israel Lobby, asserted that AIPAC manufactured the Iraq War.

Europe, Japan, and (to a much lesser extent) the US, were simply unwilling to face down their small but influential farm lobbies.

Obama also faces falling support from business lobbies in manufacturing and services sectors that are demanding more concessions from other nations.

Second, it leaves time for anti reform lobbies to organize and prevent any progress toward completion of the reform effort.

The European Union delegation in Kabul came into this and hired me to work inside the Ministry of Public Health, to lobby this approach we succeeded.

The technologies are available and will get better and cheaper with use, if only fossil fuel lobbies can be held at bay.

Perhaps his effort to change America s Cuba policy which means challenging the highly disciplined lobby opposing the rule of Fidel Castro and his brother Raúl will show the way.

The lobby's interests were, for example, that bananas of the highest quality should measure at least 14 cm in the EU, and were not to display and anomalous curvature.

For example, the real estate lobby in the US obviously has no desire to see government support for housing diminish, despite the fact that the US probably has far more housing stock than it can afford. Similarly, the export lobby in China has no interest in a strong renminbi, even though it is in China s long term interest to let its currency appreciate.

Similarly, the export lobby in China has no interest in a strong renminbi, even though it is in China s long term interest to let its currency appreciate.

The need to wrestle with macroeconomic policy issues could easily cause talks to bog down and give protectionist lobbies the political ammunition they need.

Post war, the margarine lobby gained power and, little by little, the main margarine restrictions were lifted, the most recent states to do so being Minnesota in 1963 and Wisconsin in 1967.

One big reason is the gun lobby, which is one of the most heavily funded in America.

For example, Colorado and many other states have sought to require more stringent background checks, aimed at preventing those with criminal records or obvious mental health problems from arming themselves. But few such restrictions have been legislated or have been left unchallenged by the gun lobby when they are.

But that was only after five years of intransigence by Europe s even more powerful farm lobbies.

But few such restrictions have been legislated or have been left unchallenged by the gun lobby when they are.

When it comes to the so called Israel lobby in Washington, which is well organized and very well funded, evangelical Christians play an important part as well.

Second, because IMF intervention would reduce the influence of powerful domestic insiders, early intervention would be less attractive to them.

While Kevin Monk got the car, Roseanna Monk came down to the lobby of their Riverside Boulevard building with their luggage, carrying Genevieve.

America must also deal with the potential for corruption, both illegal in the case of the diversion of Teamsters pension resources and legal in the campaign contributions provided by the pharmaceutical lobby to complaisant members of Congress.

Wherever powerful lobbies defend existing coal or oil interests, politicians typically are afraid to tell the truth about the need for low carbon energy.