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The common European practice of giving pressure groups a formal status, and often a legal right to be consulted, minimises conflict by ensuring that powerful groups put their case to governments before laws are introduced.
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But these establishment salutes were accompanied by many less formal goodbyes from feminist groups.
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One example is in Greece, where Syriza has transformed itself from a loose alliance of left-wing groups into the formal main anti-austerity party.
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The initial impression is that the suspect was acting alone and did not have any formal connections to organized terrorist groups, the U.S. administration official said.
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It will bring together an array of senior U.S. and Soviet officials who, in various working groups, will be charged with developing formal bilateral agreements.
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Of course, the formal rule making process is oftentimes dominated by interest groups with the knowledge and resources to influence the process, but the process has as its virtue transparency, regularity and democratic legitimacy.
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To provide education for these groups, the National Centre for Non-Formal and Distance Education (NFDE) was established under the Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science (MECS) to coordinate all the efforts done at the national level.
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Use surveys and focus groups to learn, for example, whether women feel excluded from formal and informal networks.
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Formal, bilateral relationships between China and the USA incorporate countless active agreements and working groups in military, monetary, academic, and commercial spheres.
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Groups such as Expedia, TripAdvisor and Microsoft have lobbied the EU to serve formal charges rather than sign a voluntary settlement that allows Google to entrench its dominance.
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