public interest groups

基本解释

Public-sector unions are some of the world's most powerful interest groups.
公共部门的公会是当今世界最具影响力的一批利益集团。
WIPO should make an effort to actively solicit the views of different public interest groups working in the developing world, in its various policy-making bodies.
WIPO应该努力主动征求发展中国家各公共利益团体对其不同政策制定机构的意见。
This could lead to a flowering of Japanese public-interest groups, says Mr Matsubara. “The government has no other choice but to cut social services and shift responsibility on to the NPOs.”
松原（Matsubara）先生认为，这会导致日本公共利益团体的繁荣，“除了削减社会福利和把责任转嫁给非营利组织，政府没有其他的选择。”

The two public-interest groups outlined how investments in foreign corporations had fanned mass murder in Sudan.
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So Britain is wise to include public-interest groups and consumer representatives on the advisory committees that are being set up to look at the social and ethical aspects of biotechnology.
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Americans on below-average incomes are much less likely than well-off ones to have university degrees, but of those among them who join large public-interest advocacy groups, at least three-quarters are graduates.
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