• One is the soft-spoken Mrs Macovei, who once ran the Romanian Helsinki Committee, a pressure group.

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  • Panama, in contrast, is not even the cleanest in Central America, according to Transparency International, a pressure group.

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  • Cllr Williams added that in light of the latest developments at the hospital a pressure group had been formed.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Wales | Mid | Staff crisis prompts ward closure

  • But Inquest, a pressure group that helps families of people who die in custody, has expressed deep concern about the case.

    BBC: Schoolboy cell death inquiry

  • Greenpeace, a pressure group, has bought land on the proposed runway site and intends to delay the planning process with procedural challenges.

    ECONOMIST: Airport expansion

  • Stanton McCandlish of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a pressure group, says he expects other governments to adopt geolocation and other similar techniques to balkanise the Internet in coming years.

    ECONOMIST: Geography and the net

  • Global Witness, a pressure group and founding KP member, pulled out of weeks later, saying its inability to hold elected governments to account was a fatal flaw.

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  • Most of them reject all talk of increasing the petrol tax, or even indexing it to inflation, says Erich Zimmermann of Taxpayers for Common Sense, a pressure group.

    ECONOMIST: How not to fund infrastructure

  • Carsten Berg of Democracy International (a pressure group that campaigned for the ECI) notes that a successful petition does not trigger a public vote or even a parliamentary debate.

    ECONOMIST: Direct democracy: Vox populi or hoi polloi? | The

  • Mrs Christoffersen is a leading member of a pressure group seeking to persuade air operators to conduct research into DVT and to improve conditions for passengers in the meantime.

    BBC: DVT campaigner urges airline action

  • Isabella Sankey of Liberty, a pressure group, fears the CPI could be worse than the ASBO, as the standard of proof will be lower and the test of anti-social behaviour broader.

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  • Edmundo Hidalgo of Chicanos Por La Causa, a pressure group, says Hispanics are often keen on laws intended to curb their fellows' most offensive behaviour, since they lose most if Hispanics become a pariah group.

    ECONOMIST: Immigration

  • Abdurahman Alamoudi, who provided seed money for activist Grover Norquist to start a pressure group called the Islamic Institute, allegedly was recruited by Libyan intelligence as part of a plot to assassinate the crown prince of Saudi Arabia.

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  • Reforesting Scotland, a pressure group which wants to recreate the native pine forest that used to cover the moorlands, says many more jobs could be provided by replacing the heather with a mixture of forestry, small-scale agriculture and wildlife tourism.

    ECONOMIST: Blasted moors

  • According to Alexei Yablokov, a noted scientist who used to advise President Boris Yeltsin on ecology and now heads a pressure group, Russia's security services remember and resent the role that greens played in the collapse of the Soviet Union.

    ECONOMIST: Russia

  • In 1992 taxes on British micro-brewers were slashed by 50% and it sparked an industry revival that continues to this day: 71 breweries opened in Britain in 2009 alone, taking the total to 711, according to the Campaign for Real Ale, a pressure group.

    ECONOMIST: Start-ups are shaking up an old and staid industry

  • On 3 February, 1982 Stephen Leach, an NIO official, recorded a conversation with Captain Austin Ardill, the convenor of the Unionist Devolution Group (UDG), a UUP pressure group which supported the restoration of devolved institutions.

    BBC: James Molyneaux

  • Last week a Washington pressure group, the Project on Government Oversight, released a Pentagon report from last year setting out operational difficulties with the Predator.

    ECONOMIST: Unmanned aircraft

  • But even if his party ends up as a credible pressure group within India's messy politics, it will be a considerable achievement.

    BBC: Will India's new anti-corruption party work?

  • The Federation of Korean Industries, a chaebol pressure group, has urged prosecutors to go easy on Mr Chey.

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  • Meanwhile earlier this month a new pressure group was set up to defend Welsh-speaking communities from erosion of the language.

    BBC: Church enters language 'crisis' row

  • In America's religious marketplace, notes Chris Sugden, of Anglican Mainstream, a pressure-group, people who are dissatisfied with their parishes or bishops simply get up and leave.

    ECONOMIST: When you're a church, breaking up is hard to do

  • Critics such as The National Council of La Raza, a Latino pressure group, argue that illegal workers might be putting themselves at risk by applying for temporary residence.

    ECONOMIST: At last, sense about illegal workers

  • Mr Norquist is the pugnacious founder of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), a mighty pressure group that deems taxes no less of an evil than alcohol was in the eyes of the 19th-century temperance movements.

    ECONOMIST: Lexington

  • His hands have been tied by a government that is determined not to alienate a massive pressure group while, at the same time, not prepared to pour the gigantic amounts of money into public transport to make it a viable alternative for most travellers.

    BBC: By Political Correspondent Nick Assinder

  • But greens are split: Greenpeace, a big environmental pressure group which opposed sending the Clemenceau to India, supports scrapping the ship in Hartlepool instead.

    ECONOMIST: Shipbreaking

  • "It will go on and on and on and you don't need to be Albert Einstein to know that affects the commercial attractiveness to us sponsors, " said Mr Fuller, a member of pressure group Change Cycling Now.

    BBC: Doping in sport: Counting the cost

  • According to a survey by the CBI, a business pressure-group, manufacturing export orders were up in the three months to January, and companies are more optimistic about prospects for the coming year than at any time since 1995.

    ECONOMIST: British exports: Trading out of trouble | The

  • She is part of a growing group applying pressure to the big box store to take a line of cards off the shelves before February 14.

    FORBES: Connect

  • Also on Flickr, "Green My Apple" is a Greenpeace-led pressure group of Mac devotees who want Apple to make more environmentally-friendly computers.

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