Since the 1970s, lobbying activity has grown immensely in terms of the numbers of lobbyists and the size of lobbying budgets, and has become the focus of much criticism of American governance.

Since leaving political office in 1989, Young has founded or served in a large number of organizations founded on public policy, political lobbying and international relations, with a special focus on Africa.

Since the late 20th century, some hijra activists and Western non-government organizations ( NGOs ) have been lobbying for official recognition of the hijra as a kind of " third sex " or " third gender ," as neither man nor woman.

Since June 2009 Allan has been employed by Facebook as Director of Policy in Europe, responsible for representing the company and lobbying EU governments on matters of concern to it.

Since Firefly started operations in the airport, AirAsia has been lobbying the government to allow AirAsia to use Subang Airport.

Since early 2007, Connie Mack, III has served as the Senior Policy Advisor to Liberty Partners of Tallahassee-a Florida-based lobbying firm ( www. libertypartnersfl. com ).

Since 2009, the HKIPA has been lobbying the Hong Kong SAR Government to reform the current patent system and the regulation of patent practitioners.

Since 2008, CIEMEN has been lobbying to place linguistic rights on the agenda of the states that are currently members of the United Nations Human Rights Council ( UNHRC ).

Since the passage of the 1984 Canada Health Act, the CMA itself has been a strong advocate of maintaining a strong publicly funded system, including lobbying the federal government to increase funding, and being a founding member of ( and active participant in ) the Health Action Lobby ( HEAL ).

Since the late 1980s, however, many of the largest lobbying firms have moved out ; as of 2012, only one of the top-20 lobbying firms has a K Street address.

Since 1997, he has been a partner with eleven other former Members of Congress in the Washington firm Advantage Associates, a lobbying and consulting firm.

Since 2005, Stenholm has been a senior policy advisor and lobbyist with Olsson Frank Weeda, a Washington law and lobbying firm that specializes in representing food, drug, and agriculture interests before material federal agencies.

Since then, the emphasis of the organization has gone from being a networking group to an active lobbying and advocacy coalition.

Since 2006 increased lobbying has been undertaken to scrap the Jones Act.

Since 2007, the Orange County-based corporation Transportation Corridor Agency ( TCA ) has been lobbying to construct a six lane toll highway through the state park and a habitat reserve in Orange County, despite local and national objections.

Since 2008, the zoo has been lobbying for a permit to build an eagle sanctuary in order to be able to distribute the animals ' feathers to tribal members for ceremonial purposes in accordance with federal law.

Since 2002, along with professors Neil Wollman and anti-apartheid activist Dennis Brutus, he has contributed to the international coalition Make TIAA-CREF Ethical dedicated to lobbying shareholders of 400 billion dollar fund into divesting from corporations shown to have damaged society, among them Costco, Walmart, Altria and Coca-Cola.

Since the mid-1970s, post-operative transsexual people had been discreetly lobbying to be given the right to get married to opposite-sex spouses.

Since the Pew's change to a charitable foundation, it can now raise funds freely and devote up to 5 % of its budget to lobbying the public sector.

Since 1974 the All Children Together ( ACT ) movement had been lobbying against the segregation in schools in Northern Ireland, however even by 1981 there had been virtually no initiatives from either the churches or the government in the direction of integration.

Since leaving office he has worked for The Livingston Group, a lobbying organization founded by former Congressman Bob Livingston.

Since 1967 there have been many matches between Australian Football teams ( mainly from Australia ) and Gaelic football teams ( mainly from Ireland ), under various sets of hybrid, compromise rules known as International rules football.

Since 1938, many states have adopted rules similar to the FRCP.

Since the 1970 NFL-AFL merger, league rules were changed to allow the Super Bowl home team to pick their choice of jersey.

Since the rules are written in plain language, it is easy to identify those to be removed or modified.

Since you died with Christ to the basic principles of this world, why, as though you still belonged to it, do you submit to its rules: " Do not handle!

Since AIFMD covers the entire EU, and individual countries have different rules for hedge fund marketing, the directive introduced a " passport " for hedge funds authorized in one EU country to operate throughout the EU.

Since there has been a lot of cross-fertilization between these styles, with many practitioners training or competing under the rules of more than one style, the history of the individual styles cannot be seen in isolation from one another.

Since 1996, when Sweden and Finland formally won a final exemption from the European Economic Area rules with 60-tonne and 25. 25-metre combinations, all other member states gained the ability to adopt the same rules.

Since most physicists would consider the statement of the underlying rules to suffice as the definition of a " theory of everything ", most physicists argue that Gödel's Theorem does not mean that a ToE cannot exist.

Since the former allows for more control over the speed and direction of the ball, the bump is used only when the ball is so low it cannot be properly handled with fingertips, or in beach volleyball where rules regulating overhand setting are more stringent.

Since the rules for Baroque were first laid down in 1962, some regional variation has arisen, causing the game to diverge from Ultima.

Since the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) amended rules to allow frequency hopping spread spectrum systems in the unregulated 2. 4 GHz band, many consumer devices in that band have employed various spread-spectrum modes.

Since package management systems, at least on Unix systems, originated as extensions of file archiving utilities, they can usually only either overwrite or retain configuration files, rather than applying rules to them.

Since then the doctrine has been embedded in judicial rules and some statutes.

Since the 16th century, some grammarians, such as Louis Meigret or Dominique Bouhours, have claimed that the strict rules governing French word order ensure that the language conforms more closely to a natural order of thinking than Latin, for example.

Since the judge is not present, all other objections, in particular those involving the rules of evidence, are generally preserved until trial.

Since so many rules can vary, clarifying all the rules before the game begins can avoid problems later.

Since the Nobel Prize rules forbid nominations of the deceased, longevity is an asset, one prize being awarded as long as 50 years after the discovery.

Since then the production and the maturation is defined in the Swiss law, all Swiss Gruyère producers must follow these rules.

Since Torney, who was chief of staff, under the INLA's rules lacked the authority to call a ceasefire ( because he was incarcerated ), he and the two men who supported him were expelled from the INLA.

Though Meredith was legally entitled to register, the Governor of Mississippi, Ross Barnett, tried to block him by having the Legislature pass a law that “ prohibited any person who was convicted of a state crime from admission to a state school .” The law was directed at Meredith, who had been convicted of “ false voter registration .” Since passage of its 1890 constitution, the state had voter registration rules that effectively disfranchised black voters.