Lawmakers approved the bill, amending the 1955 marriage act, despite opposition from Christian lobby groups.
Other business lobby groups can make claims of the impact of tax on output.
Commission offices and subsidised lobby groups in member states relentlessly push the case for European integration.
But despite repeated promises, not enough was done, according to some scientists and lobby groups.
Gay rights advocates say this is a milestone for equality despite strong opposition from Christian lobby groups.
Lobby groups argue that many small businesses would be hurt by the loss of those tax breaks.
Perversely, lobby groups who are not fortunate enough to influence policy would not get their money back.
Though many countries have lobby groups pressing for tighter controls on gun ownership, such restrictions face widespread opposition.
The 2002 bill which imposed the curbs aimed to prevent "attack ads", paid for by lobby groups, targeting candidates.
Business lobby groups said they may fight the rule change in the courts.
Overcoming Japan's powerful lobby groups will not be easy, and Hashimoto knows it.
Financial-sector lobby groups have been quick to criticise the payroll tax as damaging to Britain's attractiveness as a financial centre.
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Some lobby groups still argue that it would drive smaller shops out of business and confuse consumers by distorting pricing.
And, says Olga Kryshtanovskaya, a sociologist, their influence in smaller, private firms and through lobby groups in parliament is growing too.
We have upset most vested interests and lobby groups at times by our reporting of Europe, Iraq and the Middle East.
Asylum lobby groups criticised these proposals as potentially costly, cumbersome and chaotic.
Lobby groups fighting for the Gypsies say that education is the key.
Many politicians and lobby groups think that chapter 11 goes too far.
Industry lobby groups have been clamoring for more cuts, arguing these would help encourage businesses revive their investment plans necessary to stimulate growth.
He receives top marks from the American Conservative Union, National Right to Life Committee and the National Rifle Association (among other conservative lobby groups).
Meanwhile, telemarketers and their lobby groups launched several speculative legal challenges.
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The elderly lobby groups represent a white-collar view of the world.
As Mr Tanter explains, American idealism in wanting to whack the wicked needs to have strong domestic support and few lobby groups are as powerful in the United States as Israel's.
Another concern, raised by lobby groups such as Greenpeace and the Union of Concerned Scientists, is that transgenic animals might escape into the wild and contaminate the gene pool, triggering all kinds of unintended consequences.
Industry lobby groups have been pressuring the Reserve Bank of India to cut monetary policy rates and are also pushing the government to speed up economic reforms to help improve business environment and boost growth.
Bank lobby groups will try to water down the consumer agency's powers and to persuade lawmakers that higher capital requirements will curb lending to hard-working Americans (and put the industry at a disadvantage to international rivals).
Industry lobby groups are pressuring the government to speed up economic reforms, and the Reserve Bank of India to lower monetary policy rates to help boost an economy expanding at its weakest pace in a decade.
The NRA is planning its own advertising campaign, but despite being one of the best-funded lobby groups in America its spending is unlikely, for the moment at least, to rival that of Mr Bloomberg, he adds.
The bills have been strongly supported by lobby groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union, which fear that the protections offered by the First Amendment are being infringed by the unfettered use of libel law in non-American jurisdictions.
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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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