Vested interests may also play a role.

The paper s duty will remain to its readers and not to the private interests of its owners.

He claimed that the parliamentary system subordinates the national interest, or common good, to private interests of a parliament's representatives where only short sighted interests of individuals prevail.

After all, vested interests do not welcome challenges.

Economic change often happens not when vested interests are defeated, but when different strategies are used to pursue those interests.

But Smith stressed that private interests always pursue selfish interests

Indeed, there was no economic malfunction that the two words vested interests could not account for.

Make those assumptions explicit, and the decisive role of vested interests evaporates.

His administration is trapped more and more in the paralyzing grip of special interest groups.

Public officials should hold private interests at arm s length and never cozy up to them.

We have also attempted to restore independence and integrity to our institutions, held hostage by private and partisan interests.

By creating the diverse and conflicting private economic interests that are typical of a capitalist society, China has had to create a set of institutions to clarify and mediate the exercise of these rights.

(i) UNODC reference collection maintained

Moreover, Friedman believed that even when private interests were not aligned with public interests, that government could not be relied on to fix the problem.

Opponents of nuclear power have suggested that self interest has compromised the Chernobyl Forum s integrity.

Economists love theories that place organized special interests at the root of all political evil.

The special interests of the indigenous people, including their right of ownership to their natural resources, must also be protected.

What the executive branch has relinquished, or been forced to give up, vested interests have seized.

They also run large, sophisticated media campaigns aimed at persuading policymakers and the public that what is good for their special interest is good for the country.

Critics accuse Thaksin of conflicts of interest, as his family owned telecommunications conglomerate holds sizeable investments in Myanmar.

In Canada, for example, it would be risky to overlook the special interests of Quebec.

There is the wall between those who heed the scientific evidence and those who pander to vested interests.

He has never been co opted by private interests, be they political, economic, or criminal.

If reformers are to win, they must be prepared to fight the world s most powerful vested interest.

It ensures that public rather than private interests guide decision making in achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

In the case of Japan Measures affecting Consumer Photographic Film and Paper (WT DS44 R, 31 March 1998)., the United States brought proceedings in respect of alleged Japanese measures affecting the distribution and sale of imported consumer photographic film and paper (contrary to GATT 1994), as well as a number of measures allegedly affecting distribution services in general (contrary to GATS).

Eliminating special interest loopholes, like tax breaks for oil and gas, or for corporate jets, would not yield enough revenue to pay for a meaningful rate cut.

One strategy for weakening ties among potential evaders is to introduce various conflicts of interests.

These special interests included Wall Street, Big Oil, the big health insurers, and arms manufacturers.

Yet the special interest groups have dominated the process, and Obama has failed to make any headway.

The world has a variety of special relationships.

Each group has its own opinion, and believes in its own vision for the future of the country.

One such programme is the Literacy Assessment and Monitoring Programme of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

Give the local community enough control over its own affairs, Tocqueville argued, and one will see at a glance the close tie which unites private to general interest.

The Democrats have a bit wider set of interests, including support for health care, education, training, and infrastructure.

Why, then, are they maintaining policies that protect the special interest groups that dominate the service sector?

In such a world, private and social interests often diverge, as we have seen so dramatically in this crisis.

I had been following a group of kids with my camera for twenty one months.

But achieving it will require a thorough overhaul of the existing road transportation system and that means overcoming the complex combination of public and private elements, vested interests, ingrained business models, and massive inertia that has so far impeded its development.

These questions should be considered calmly, with the higher interests of humankind in mind, setting aside the particular interest of any country in pursuing some hypothetical power that would reduce security for each and every one of us.

By contrast, subsidizing current, ineffective solar power or ethanol mostly wastes money while benefiting special interests.

For one thing, the lower the political system s transparency, representativeness, and accountability, the more likely it is that special interests will hijack the rules.

In both cases, the biggest winners were vested interests (Korea s business establishment and the Chinese Communist Party).

A new global agreement must be science based, not a lowest common denominator compromise watered down by vested interests.

Instead of formulating and implementing comprehensive and transparent reforms, the government would have no choice but to continue to indulge and, above all, avoid threatening vested interests.