The data that the regulators focused on was more relevant to politically mobilizing voting blocks in particular electorates than to keeping the financial system solvent.

And though there are rudimentary conservative efforts to stiffen laws against gambling and divorce, these ministers prefer to occasionally preach against these evils without mobilizing against them politically.

Where voters do have access to the initiative process or are able to mobilize politically and force legislative action, self-interested redistricting is often a target.

A postponement would give the leftists some additional time to mobilize politically, and still permit a vote before Mr. Duarte leaves office.

Mobilizing politically around their Lulua identity, Lulua leaders swept the 1950 legislative elections for the provincial parliament.

From around 1830 large segments of the population began to identify with either German or Danish nationality and mobilized politically.

They began to mobilize politically, repeatedly petitioning the national government in Santiago to get involved and bring about improvements in their dreadful living and working conditions.

Yet this period also produced something strikingly positive, in the eyes of many Muslims: they began to mobilize politically and socially.

Political scientist Thomas Ambrosio writes in 2002 that there "has been a growing acceptance that ethnic identity groups have the right to mobilize politically for the purpose of influencing U.S. policies at home and abroad.

It is about the struggle of the North to mobilize politically, militarily and emotionally, to decide, even as soldiers are dying, just what it is fighting for and against.