Sometimes their voices are heard in the media, but they are no match for powerful lobby groups.

有时候它们的呼声被媒体曝光，但它们无法对抗强大游说团体。

The American Petroleum Institute, Big Oil's powerful lobby, is looking for a "sensible" energy policy from Republicans.

作为强有力的石油巨头游说势力，美国石油协会(api)正在从共和党人那里寻求一种“明智的”能源政策。

In fact, the financial industry and its powerful lobby have opposed modest safeguards against the kinds of reckless risks and bad practices that led to this very crisis.

实际上，金融行业和他们强大的游说集团反对适度的保护条款，正是他们不计后果的冒险和恶劣的行径导致了这次的危机。

The Japan Medical Association, a long-standing group with some 165,000 members, is well-known as a powerful lobby but observers say it has mainly worked for the betterment of practitioners.

日本医学会，与一些165,000成员的长期组，众所周知，作为一个强大的游说，但观察家认为它主要用于改善工作的著名医生。

Washington's negotiating team was also under pressure from the country's powerful farm lobby, and the European Union was under pressure from its own.

华盛顿的谈判小组也处于来自国内强大的农业游说压力之下，而欧盟也承担成员国内的压力。

Many also fear that firms which make money from jails form a powerful pro-prison lobby.

很多人可能担心私人公司可能会从强大狱前游说中获利。

America’s powerful sugar lobby is vehemently opposed, and cites the security of the home-grown supply.

然而，美国强大的糖业利益集团和游说团体对此表示强烈反对，并强调要保障国产糖的利益。

Japan has long had a powerful construction lobby and a can-do attitude to building.

长期以来，日本就有一个强有力的建设集团，在建筑方面的态度一向是无所不能的。

Why? Because ethanol is domestic: It replaces oil, and the farm lobby is powerful.

为啥？因为乙醇是国货：它替代原油，而且农场游说团强大得很。

Negotiation of such treaties has been held up by Japan's powerful farm lobby-even though farming accounts for just 2% of GDP.

由日本强有力的农业游说团已进行了以上类似条约的谈判，尽管日本农业仅占gdp的2%左右。

The powerful Brazilian farmer's lobby had argued that and easing of environmental restrictions would promote sustainable food production.

强大的巴西农场主游说团称，放宽环境限制会促进粮食生产的可持续性。

Environmental pressure group Greenpeace heaped scorn on the report and accused Merkel of yielding to the powerful nuclear energy lobby, a charge echoed by an increasingly confident opposition.

环境监督组织绿色和平组织藐视该报告并且指责默克尔屈服于强大的核能游说，由越来越有自信的反对派发出的指控。

Joining the powerful senior citizens' lobby AARP is almost a rite of passage for many Americans as they turn 50.

加入很有影响力的美国退休人员协会(AARP)几乎是很多美国人进入50岁时的必然选择。

Japan's powerful farm lobby has shifted into hyperdrive.

日本强大的农业界国会活动集团已开展极度紧张的活动。