Then the cycling lobby - usually a split and disconnected group - managed to get all the candidates to commit to improvements to cycling safety.
He now faces another copyright lobby-inspired royalty scheme, which penalizes new media entrants and forces Pandora to give half of its revenue to copyright owners.
In fact, several of the more sophisticated spots are in hotels, including the glass-walled Blu Horizon in the Shangri-La overlooking Sydney Harbour, Hemmesphere in the Establishment Hotel and the cavernous lobby-level Water Bar in BLUE Sydney.
On his Facebook page, he took on the National Rifle Association -- the central pro-gun rights lobby -- after a news conference by a top NRA official about the Newtown tragedy triggered widespread anger.
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Instead, he threw in his lot with the anti-dam lobby and was duly re-elected.
The once-austere lobby now features stylish seating--including lattice-backed John Boone chairs--as well as handpainted silk Chinese wallpaper and trellis-patterned carpets hand made in Thailand.
In the marble-lined lobby, a magnificent 19th-century statue of the then Duke of Norfolk in garter robes suggests that Sheffield's taste for expensive monuments has a long history.
The wind-power lobby has won a potentially game-changing victory in its full-court press to unlock the vast offshore wind resource off the coast of North Carolina.
The museum portion of the complex draws visitors immediately past a restaurant and gift shop into a Cordoba-like, multicolumned lobby and the sky-high Freedom Hall where an LED installation is programmable for any occasion.
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Even in France - home to an active climate-sceptical lobby linked to former minister Claude Allegre - voices opposing climate action or questioning climate science were largely absent from coverage.
You get Jules Dowler Shepard building a sixteen-tier gluten-free cake at the Embassy Suites Hotel and Convention Center to raise awareness and lobby for gluten-free labeling laws.
But improving these tools has been slow going, largely because the higher-education lobby has fought federal efforts to create a "unit-record" system that could work across state lines to link students' educational and employment histories.
Post-war lobby correspondents wrote with a delicacy practically unknown amongst their present-day successors.
The establishment has a ferociously modern lobby and luxurious - if presumptuous - uncurtained bathtubs in the middle of the bedrooms.
It has written to the chancellor, Gordon Brown, urging him to remove obstacles to grey imports, and is meeting next week to lobby the consumer-affairs minister, Kim Howells.
M. lobby on Seventy-ninth, or in the late-night Korean shop collecting, if you were Zwelish, a pack of cigarettes, or, if you were Blondy, a bottle of ginger beer or a packet of wasabi peanuts.
You also lobby the university -- as Sotomayor did at Princeton -- to be more accessible and hospitable to people like you by hiring Latino professors, reflecting the Latino experience in the curriculum and providing a support system for Latino students as opposed to admitting them and forgetting them.
But they also have exclusive in-house amenities, such as a private lobby desk and concierge staff, with escorted in-room iPad registration, one of the best upgrades you can get in a city where main lobby registration, even at top hotels, often resembles the economy class check-in line at JFK. The 24-hour room service features the first-ever in-room dining menu designed by the man himself, culinary legend Nobu Matsuhisa.
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Zappos is also opening up its lobby as a free co-working space, like a trendy hotel lobby, so that employees can mingle with workers from other companies and visitors.
For over a decade the ecologically damaging aspects of flying have been acknowledged and publicized, and the airline industry -- partly of its own volition, partly under pressure from governments, green lobby groups and public opinion -- has taken significant steps to address the issue.
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The budget for hydrogen-powered vehicles, once the darlings of the alternative-energy lobby, has been slashed.
We're sitting in a side room off the lobby of his high-rise overlooking the Hudson River.
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Britain's animal-welfare lobby has a long history, and for the most part an honourable one.
In other words, the political lobby garnered more appearences - many more - than scientists.
They have won some praise: measures to help people quit smoking have pleased the anti-smoking lobby.
Taj Lands End, a branch of the famous Taj hotel chain -- its lobby is great for people watching.
The animal-rights lobby sees these proposals as the thin end of a lethal wedge.
Clinton would be unlikely to bypass Christopher just because the pro-Israel lobby tells him to.
NASSCOM, the Indian software- and service-industry lobby, and McKinsey, a consultancy, back in 1999, are coming true.
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