vested interests

Sir John is understandably angry at this suggestion, as he stood up to unacceptable pressure from vested interests.

SJM's transactions with such vested interests are so prolific that the company's auditors have broken them out in the company's prospectus.

Those who have vested interests interest in dirty energy have done everything in their power to make it a question--to frame it as a debate.

Indeed, in the end, it was a belated attempt to pursue reform and take on some of the LDP's vested interests that did for Mr Fukuda.

The president seems sincere in his abhorrence of corruption, but unwilling to take on vested interests threatened by the anti-graft drive.

But it would shuffle the economic deck, hurting some powerful vested interests even as it created new economic opportunities.

Great democratic leaders permit the public mood to prevail over the entrenched vested interests blocking their will.

Once the architecture is set, vested interests divide up the floors and reinforce existing patterns and practices.

Apparently unwilling to defy vested interests, it has done little to promote competition in the professions or local public services.

It is a tiring effort to maintain vested interests. However, our society has put so much energy and resources into this effort.

PAUL KRUGMAN: Keynes told us that in the long run it is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

To do all this means taking on trade unions and other vested interests.

"Vested interests are running Japanese agriculture into a wall, " Mr. Saito, 52, said.

If Mr Berlusconi's heterogeneous package has a distinguishing characteristic, it is an aversion to confronting vested interests.

Do not listen to this sophistry by vested interests.

The tyranny of the status quo and the vested interests that have been created are too strong.

Or vested interests to use this amphibious sexual confusion right and wrong, false information to mislead consumers and reduce government.

When they described hostile natives as friendly traders, Vespucci and his fellow explorers served their vested interests.

Those "vested interests" are the unions that campaigned to elect U. S. President Barack Obama, Littmann added.

Change to the theocrats and their praetorians threatens the vested interests they have built up since the 1979 revolution.

Irrespective of the nature of the politics, both will need bold and strong government intervention, especially against vested interests.

It faces stiff resistance from vested interests in and outside government.

More generally, the US cannot prosper while its politicians go hat in hand to the vested interests that finance their nonstop campaigning.

Change may bring short-term disruptions and inconveniences, and may even adversely affect vested interests keen to maintain the status quo.

The Socialist government is making some progress in opening a closed economy against resistance from a myriad of vested interests.

There are powerful vested interests in China that are satisfied with the status quo and will try to put the brakes on any reform effort.

Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics.

But in the ensuing decade they have been tricked, spun round and deceived by the complex web of vested interests there.

Giving the football authorities a deadline to reform the FA and remove "vested interests" from the board, and streamline decision making.

Politics and vested interests often come in, and emotions may run high.

It would certainly be more democratic than gluing together a coalition dependent only on participants' vested interests.

The Greek political landscape is ingrained with vested interests, endemic kleptocracy and bribery.

And second, that the ruling Communist Party will fail to overcome the vested interests resisting reform.

But the impact on the economy, and on powerful vested interests, of doing so at high speed may not be manageable.

The same poll reported 59% as saying that the unions were defending their vested interests, not protecting social benefits in general.

but vested interests in the export sector will use the IMF's endorsement of capital controls to agitate against appreciation.

I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.

At its worst, it lets civil servants enrich themselves, pay back vested interests and resist economic reform.

Protect public health policies from commercial and other vested interests of the tobacco industry.

They often merely serve the needs and vested interests of the wealthy landowners.

Established vested interests will win the short- term political battle .

But he says change will be difficult because of what he calls "powerful vested interests" that will fight.

By contrast, rich nations suffer from deep sunk costs and entrenched vested interests.

This, however, will be resisted by vested interests heading national champions.

Corruption, vested interests and local protectionism all make the China market difficult.

Any reform will bring opposition from some powerful vested interests.

Vested interests whose jobs are, in effect, being outsourced.

Vested interests should not be on the board.

Mr Williams says that in China, imbalances are rebounding and powerful vested interests are likely to frustrate efforts at rapid reform.

If they want to grow China more efficiently and more sustainably, they have to deal with vested interests and break up monopolies.

To safeguard vested interests, the government has to take all means to try to avoid democracy.

They are there to govern, not to kowtow to vested interests.

Maintaining stability has become a tool to safeguard the structure of vested interests.

But the market will destroy these vested interests in the end, as has happened in music.

It is just that vested interests and coalition politics make the pace of change glacial.

And it stifles politics. These people have vested interests - to perpetuate things the way they are, for themselves.

The biggest risk is that vested interests will try to thwart reforms.

By persuading vested interests to change.

There are vested interests in China in the status quo.

Vested interests, however, suggest a long and painful gestation period for such a bold shake-up

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