And toward that end, the Cabinet members and I sat down with 229 groups -- not just individuals, representing groups -- 229 groups from law enforcement agencies to public health officials, to gun officials, to gun advocacy groups, to sportsmen and hunters and religious leaders.
The organizations were singled out for scrutiny not merely from other 501(c)(4) groups, but from all other groups that spend heavily on politics.
Given that for four generations, American Jews tied their fortunes almost solely to the Left, expelling leftist groups from Jewish umbrella groups involves openly recognizing the painful fact that today the Left makes little place for the pro-Israel community in its ranks.
FASB's controlling board of trustees comes from industry groups and its funds from audit firms, industry and financial groups.
And she began to hear from fishing groups from all over the place that wanted to help.
One aim of formally uniting the groups is to block other Sunni rebel groups from dominating the fight in Syria or "being the voice of Sunnis in the region, " said a Syrian activist.
The Knesset's move to investigate these groups was greeted by righteous rage from the groups' leaders and sympathetic Leftist Knesset members.
That's attracted money from mall-management groups from outside the country, largely from Indonesia and Japan.
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But death counts from opposition groups range from more than 12, 000 to more than 14, 000.
The president faces increasing pressure from advocacy groups and from donors to his re-election campaign, many of whom see gay rights as a key issue.
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As a result, a wide range of advocacy groups, from the nursing home industry to consumer groups such as the Center for Medicare Advocacy (CMA) are urging Medicare to revisit the observation rules.
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The IRS has said applications from groups seeking to be treated as tax-exempt social-welfare groups under section 501(c)(4) of the tax code more than doubled from 2010 to 2012, presenting challenging legal issues.
The groups include the Basque separatist organisation ETA, Irish Republican Army dissidents and loyalist paramilitary groups from Northern Ireland, and the Greek far-left group November 17.
Peskin, who estimates that there are about 20, 000 neighborhood watch groups nationwide, said there has been an increase in requests for information on starting groups from all over the country including urban, suburban and rural communities.
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The number is one of several overall estimates from various opposition groups and from the United Nations.
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The population is a mix of the Mandarin-speakers who arrived with Chiang in 1949 and their descendants, plus those descended from two groups that immigrated from the mainland in earlier centuries, each with its own regional language.
On Tuesday, the prime minister, Defence Secretary Des Browne, Veterans Minister Tom Watson and Mr Brown will meet veterans from almost 40 groups and from "as broad a range of experience, service and age as possible", Tony Blair has said.
The Chinese search and rescue team, the first such mission ever accepted by Japan from China, arrived in Tokyo on Sunday and will join similar groups from dozens of countries in a search for survivors in the worst affected areas.
Certain favored groups receive legally negligent lenience from prosecutors, while other groups, which are out of favor, are prosecuted to the limits, and often beyond the limits of the law, and at the same time are denied the protection of the law.
Mouin Rabbani, a Jordan-based analyst with the International Crisis Group, a lobby in Brussels, thinks the combination of economic boycott, domestic discontent, criticism from radical groups abroad, the growing threat from Fatah and splits within Hamas itself meant that people who used to think time was on their side began to think it was working against them.
With his signature came outcry from some animal welfare groups, despair from horse lovers, and a renewal of the debate about what to do with horses when their owners can no longer afford to keep them, or no longer want to.
The reprisals that people are trying to avoid would come not only from crime groups but, in many cases, from factions within the Mexican government.
New Labour's massive majorities in 1997 and 2002 came not from focus groups and presentational brilliance but substance - from a long line of revisionism and modernisation that started in the post-war period and continued sometimes strong, often weak, until Tony Blair and Gordon Brown finally re-invented progressive politics in Britain in the mid-1990's.
Of 16.3 million households comprising at least two people in 2011, two million homes (12%) had members from different ethnic groups in 2011, up from 1.4 million in 2001 (9% of 15.2 million households).
They collected underarm sweat from two groups of men: one that watched frightening scenes from the film The Shining, and one that watched the most disgusting scenes from Jackass.
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There is nothing that prevents pro-choice groups from paying those services out of their own pockets.
The video for Like A Prayer also brought condemnation from groups claiming it was blasphemous.
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The SNP said the plan had won key support from groups including unions and youth organisations.
Mehta was prevented by some Hindu groups from filming Water in the Indian city of Varanasi.
However, last December a coalition of First Nations groups from central and northern B.
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