pressure groupin a sentence
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It's a classic example of a small, but effective pressure group due to concentrated interests.
pressure group = a group of people who actively try to influence legislation
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...while the first step to financial development is to contain the excessive power of the government over its citizens, the second step is to contain the power of small pressure groups over the government agenda.
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pressure groups = groups of people who actively try to influence legislation
- Pressure groups.† (source)
- You aren't a political party or a special-interest group.† (source)
- Besides, he's got a pressure group: he's cornered all the men of brains.† (source)
- Otherwise, we'll never have the right answers when these pressure groups—those racists, su-perpatriots, whatever you want to call them—tag every move toward racial justice as communist-inspired, Zionist-inspired, Illuminati-inspired, Satan-inspired … part of some secret conspiracy to overthrow the Christian civilization.† (source)
- We may tell ourselves that these pressure groups and letter writers represent only a small percentage of the voters—and this is true.† (source)
- I know, we came up here to get away from things--politics, the atom bomb, war, pressure groups, prejudice, laws--I know.† (source)
- He cannot ignore the pressure groups, his constituents, his party, the comradeship of his colleagues, the needs of his family, his own pride in office, the necessity for compromise and the importance of remaining in office.† (source)