Vested interests are everywhere.

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

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

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.

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

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.

But the fundamental explanation lies in a crony capitalist system with too many vested interests to maintain.

However, the onus of providing proof of conformity with the standard is vested with the developing country producer accessing the market.

After all, vested interests do not welcome challenges.

Business as usual and fighting to maintain vested interests

Vanuatu has a parliamentary democracy with executive power vested in the Prime Minister and a Council of 13 Ministers.

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.

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

According to the Dayton Agreement, major administrative power was vested with the Entities, and this included competence for education, science and culture.

In accordance with the authority vested in it by the Executive Committee, the Standing Committee adopted a number of decisions which are annexed to the reports of the different Standing Committee meetings, as follows

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

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

Today, similar hopes are often vested in the Internet, with high expectations that the wealth of online information might trigger the same kind of censorship failure in contemporary authoritarian states that we saw in Eastern Europe and with the same results.

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.

The General Accounting Office of the Republic, the Office of the Attorney General, the Office of the Human Rights Ombudsman, the Superintendency of Banks and the Superintendency of Pensions are oversight bodies vested with constitutional authority.

Under the terms of the framework agreements, they are vested with privileges and immunities consistent with those provided under the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 13 February 1946.

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.

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.

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.

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

Sound enforcement implies legal tools and resources to pursue and implement an economic policy, along with an institutional design that reduces meddling by vested interests.

Instead of negotiating with vested interests in the backrooms of the White House and Congress, Obama should present a coherent plan to the American people.

Each opposition element is concerned with the impact on their respective vested interests if the Transitional Federal Government is successful in establishing itself in Somalia.

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.

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.

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.

But all of them make an economy less productive and redistribute wealth to small, coordinated groups with vested interests and a strong inclination to lobby the government.