Vested interests are everywhere.

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.

For now, however, those representative elements that have been added incrementally are not powerful enough to overcome the growing corruption and excessive influence of vested interests.

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

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

Such appeals are often heard, but powerful vested interests make it hard for governments to follow through.

The IPCC faced down these vested interests.

Vested interests may also play a role.

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

Such BCRCs are vested with legal identity and function fully under the laws and regulations of the host Government.

Business as usual and fighting to maintain vested interests

Corruption is rife, state capture by powerful vested interests is the norm, and institutional effectiveness and capacity for reform are weak.

Some of these constituencies have only a few hundred voters and are easily controlled by a small number of vested interests.

Second, policymakers are prone to capture by vested interests, especially in relatively weak policy environments, leading to favoritism, inefficiency, and waste.

Which country achieves this goal first will depend not only on revenue, but also on the political will to overcome vested interests.

It is undertaken not as an ordinary business under traditional conditions of laissez faire, but as one vested with the public interest.

These proposals would not be easy to implement, as there were vested interests in all governmental and social sectors of the countries involved.

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

Legislative power is vested in both the government and the National Assembly.

In fact, having countries like Russia and China more vested in the well being of the US economy would not be a bad thing.

This threat to vested interests remains the impetus behind the increasing threat of serious violent confrontation between TFG and the opposition, which is in reality an alliance of convenience to preserve vested interests.

Vested interests remain powerful, certainly in Congress and even within the White House.

But that window will close fast, because beneficiaries of specific reform policies have morphed into vested interests, which are fighting hard to protect what they have.

If politicians behavior is determined by the vested interests to which they are beholden, economists advocacy of policy reforms is bound to fall on deaf ears.

The international community, too, has a vested interest in seeing that China rises peacefully.

Both countries face formidable resistance to reform from formidable vested interests and lobby groups.

With every vested interest fighting for itself, closed professions proved impossible to pry open.

In the Niger, legislative power is vested in an 83 member monocameral National Assembly.

And now I have a sort of vested interest I want to do it for prostate cancer. So, you know, you aren't treated if it's not dangerous.

Set against the impressive body of science underpinning the Chernobyl Forum, such responses reflect the tenacity not only of myths and misconceptions, but also of vested interests.

Only then will they lose their vested interest in an insurgency that has no end.

Unfortunately, strong vested interests have spent millions of dollars on spreading misinformation about climate change.

Europe is pushing for ambitious targets but is having trouble with its own vested interests.

The supreme judicial power is vested in the Supreme Court or Riigikohus, with nineteen justices.

The judicial power is vested in the Constitutional Court, Supreme Court and the Economic Court.

2.13 Substantive responsibility for implementing the subprogramme is vested in the Division for Palestinian Rights.

Legislative authority is vested in a single House of Assembly consisting of 15 elected members.

In this way, the United States decision in Techt goes beyond both the United States decision in Society for the Propagation of the Gospel and the English decision in Sutton, because both of the latter cases concern only the effect of armed conflict on vested rights, not the treaties that created those vested rights.

After all, neither donor countries nor their partners are exempt from such problems as corruption, political crises, armed conflicts, human rights abuses, vested interests, or international power politics.

In Mumbai, a large proportion of them are Muslims who were denied space in the formal economy and have developed strong vested interests over the past 50 years.

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

Remarkably, disproportionate political, economic and military power is vested in the elites hailing from Tigray region.

The role of determining the level and scope of budgetary requirements is vested in the Secretary General and it is not appropriate for counter proposals to be made by OIOS.

The big campaign contributors to both parties pay to ensure that their vested interests dominate political debates.