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.
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.
It is just this sort of argument that sends Peter Eigen, the founder of Transparency International, an anti-corruption pressure group based in Berlin, into paroxysms of high-minded rage.
Also on Flickr, "Green My Apple" is a Greenpeace-led pressure group of Mac devotees who want Apple to make more environmentally-friendly computers.
Transparency International, a Berlin-based pressure group which researches perceptions of corruption, ranks Brazil as 49th-cleanest of the 90 countries surveyed (see article).
However, Simon Brooks from Welsh-language pressure group Cymuned said the situation was a disgrace.
In 2006, Alon's wife Mor Alon signed a petition from the pro-Palestinian pressure group Machsom Watch.
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Ahead of the 2008 US presidential elections, the anti-Israel pressure group J Street made a sudden appearance.
This is precisely the opposite of how peer-group pressure is meant to work.
In 2006, the lower-key Knapman retired, to be replaced by Nigel Farage, a confident media performer, who pledged to make UKIP a "truly representative party", ending its image as a single-issue pressure group.
The anti-cuts pressure group Right to Work occupied a Tesco branch in Westminster at the weekend and bombarded its HQ and that of other big high street names with demands that work be paid the minimum rate.
The real standard-bearer of the left, however, will probably be Jon Cruddas, a backbencher supported by Compass, a well-organised Labour pressure group.
Under this pressure, the Green-Independent group agreed to back down.
Still, despite mounting pressure from a group of ex-executives to oust Purcell and break up the company, the board again stood behind him.
While 39% of Asian-Americans say their group puts "too much" pressure on kids to succeed in school, 60% of Asian-Americans think that other Americans don't push their kids hard enough.
Analysts said, however, that the increasing pressure on Purcell by a group of ex-executives calling for his ouster may force Morgan Stanley to act more quickly.
Two years ago, the 44-year-old campaigner set up a group called India Against Corruption aimed at putting pressure on the government to bring about tough anti-corruption laws.
Meanwhile earlier this month a new pressure group was set up to defend Welsh-speaking communities from erosion of the language.
The common symptomatic behaviors resulting from those causes included overestimation of the capabilities of the group, close-mindedness and pressure for uniformity.
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Mr McTaggart worked to bring together all these well-meaning people into one massive international pressure group as professionally organised as those they sought to humiliate.
Dmytro Sherembey, the HIV-positive head of the patients' pressure group which helped organise Liza's appeal in parliament, the Ukrainian Community Advisory Board, predicts licences will be issued to those who pay bribes.
DaimlerChrysler Chief Executive Dieter Zetsche , under enormous pressure in Germany to spin off the money-losing Chrysler Group, says all options for the U.S. auto making arm are now on the table.
Mr. Cuomo and women's-rights groups have begun a pressure campaign against a group of Republican senators to extract their support, including Phil Boyle of Long Island, Joseph Robach of the Rochester area, John Bonacic of Orange County and Mark Grisanti of the Buffalo area.
He fears that the one-time senior officers will become just another Washington pressure group.
Anne Tamar-Mattis of Advocates for Informed Choice, an American pressure group, says that though legal systems assume that male and female are indisputable categories, none defines them.
Guus Hiddink's Russia kept the pressure on Germany at the top of Group 4 with a fine 3-0 win in Finland.
Pressure group, Xplain, led a campaign to repair and re-open the bridge.
The smaller size of the Lib Dem group means they're under less pressure to appear as a government-in-waiting.
In January 2009, public pressure led to the formation of a Stormont working group to explore options for non-farming rural dwellers.
One is the soft-spoken Mrs Macovei, who once ran the Romanian Helsinki Committee, a pressure group.
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