You can't help wondering why vote seeking politicians are so proverbially overawed by the power of, for example, the Jewish lobby.

Wherever powerful lobbies defend existing coal or oil interests, politicians typically are afraid to tell the truth about the need for low carbon energy. Brave politicians who do tell the truth about climate change are found mainly in countries that do not have a powerful fossil fuel lobby.

This is their lobby.

The gun lobby in the US remains powerful, and politicians are afraid to counter it. Given the shooting of then Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in 2011, perhaps they even fear that they, too, might be targeted.

Google should have something like this in their lobby.

We begin to go on the Hill and lobby.

Coordination francaise du lobby européen des femmes (2000 2003)

My approach to attacking creationism is unlike the evolution lobby.

I have a friend waiting for me in the lobby.

Would you go to governments and lobby and use the system?

And again, you'll be able to see it in the lobby.

You're going down into our lobby, go through the lobby with our own little dangly bits, whether you like them or not, up through the stair that leads you into the auditorium.

The issues are detailed and technical, and the financial lobby has deployed a small army of highly paid experts on a mission of delay, dilution, and diversion. The process is still subject to political supervision, but many politicians are easily bamboozled when the conversation really gets into the weeds.

Meaning The artistic director doesn't necessarily need to go through our lobby.

So I went down to the lobby, and I saw this Indian guy.

In any case, 12 hours later, I mean, they put us in the lobby.

And you can try this in the lobby, and look at the gecko inspired material.

And then of course, we wanted to have the simulcast lounge, the lobby and the Steinbeck forum.

ODA Development Aid Encourage and lobby developed countries to devote 0.7 of GNP to international development aid.

The Roundtable of Estonian Women's Associations is also the Estonian national coordinator in the European Women's Lobby.

The project explores the portrayal of female politicians in the media and the role of female politicians in society, and also seminars for journalists, politicians and PR managers are organised.

Politicians have recently begun Twittering.

Yet today, with international trade talks stalled and protectionist rhetoric rising, we are instead moving toward building bigger trade barriers. These barriers are supported by deep pocketed, self serving corporations and lobby groups, and defended by politicians who are scared that the redistribution of jobs, income, and wealth resulting from freer trade will reduce their chances of remaining in power.

For politicians to be honest, the public needs to allow them to be honest, and the media, which mediates between the politicians and the public, needs to allow those politicians to be honest.

Can I picture politicians doing it?

Politicians are good at raising money.

support and promotion of women politicians.

Is it out there with the politicians?

Politicians never tell us their inner thoughts.

Now, they trade up the politicians every time.

And finally, we need to really reward politicians.

Are politicians making good decisions on my behalf?

In particular, many provinces have even proposed to actively lobby the Central Government for fiscal support to reduce overcapacity in their respective provinces.

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Yet the US still refuses to act, even after this year s string of shocking incidents the massacre in a movie theatre in Colorado, an attack on a Sikh community in Milwaukee, another on a shopping mall in Oregon, and many more before the ruthless slaughter of first graders and school staff in Newtown. The gun lobby in the US remains powerful, and politicians are afraid to counter it.

But what politicians need is a range of options.

Great creativity can make politicians electable, or parties unelectable.

Can you picture the politicians ever buying into this?

For example, Steve Walt and John Mearsheimer, in their notorious essay The Israel Lobby, asserted that AIPAC manufactured the Iraq War. But the reality is far less sinister in that case, AIPAC merely surfed on the pro invasion wave unleashed by President George W. Bush, with his Messianic urges, and Vice President Dick Cheney, a one man war lobby.

So, returning to tactics and the evolution lobby, I want to argue that rocking the boat may be just the right thing to do.

So by now I was walking the lobby, and of course, that hurt, because of my hip, and I kind of needed a sign.

UNICEF continues to lobby the Ugandan army to ensure that all returnees are rapidly processed into reception centres for counselling, monitoring and family tracing.

Mobilization and local partnership campaigns to lobby Governments and hold them accountable to their promises, encouraging them to turn goals set into goals met.

Encourage and lobby developed countries to eliminate trade barriers and subsidiaries so as encourage economic opportunities, especially in agriculture, for rural and impoverished people.

Again, meetings, seminars, side events to official meetings, were as many occasions to lobby the International Financial Institutions, the EU, governments and official delegates.