Their leaders must do more to tackle entrenched domestic interests and encourage foreign competition.

As was the case then, public outrage today is at a level that might well overwhelm the lobbying efforts of entrenched interests.

It needs to rethink the fundamentals of an economy and political system in which entrenched interests have become veto centers for reform.

One feature of Italy s turbulent politics remains consistent the control exercised by entrenched interests, and the dominance of a bloated and inefficient bureaucracy.

Or, to put it differently, special interests have become so powerful and entrenched that any attempt at reform brings out a powerful lobby against it.

Structural reform, however, is a more difficult proposition, with strongly entrenched interests and cultural values militating against change and opening up a partly closed economy.

Moreover, given the vast profits available under the current system, the struggle to bring about a significant energy transition faces stiff resistance from deeply entrenched vested interests.

There are significant political risks related to the overlapping political and business interests of the region s entrenched ruling elites, presenting headaches for investors concerned about their reputations.

Entrenched interests (food processing companies, in the case of nutritional labeling) resist change with all of their lobbying efforts, but public outrage is too strong for them to win.

In the US, the president and Congress must both be engaged to ensure that entrenched domestic interests, such as agriculture and civil aviation, do not impede a potential agreement.

The problem abides, and the most conspicuous theme in the present report is the continuing trend of escalating potential violence in a pattern of protection of entrenched vested interests.

The experience of deflation is well entrenched.

As little as I like Sarah Palin, the fact is that entrenched lobbying and other special interests mean that a changing of the guard in Washington is too often only a change in branding.

The Strategic and Global Partnership between Japan and India, established in 2006, rests on the recognition that Japan and India share common values and interests, as they are the two major entrenched democratic countries in Asia.

Little wonder that in those countries, mediocrity is knowingly entrenched.

The principle of equality is entrenched in the Brazilian Constitution.

Popular revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt have swept away entrenched autocracies.

Programs become entrenched, develop powerful constituencies, and are hard to shrink.

Deeply entrenched pockets of poverty continue to exist around the world.

The entrenched anti capitalist, anti globalization mood elsewhere is a source of concern.

The time to start worrying about inflation is when the recovery is entrenched.

Entrenched attitudes and practices must be changed in order to overcome existing inequalities.

It is a western tradition which has also become entrenched in Pakistani society.

Once in power, the DPJ will immediately confront the massive bureaucracy and entrenched mandarins, which usually sabotage any efforts at administrative reform that threatens their power and vested interests. Indeed, immediately after the election, the budget estimates for the next fiscal year are due.

Constitutional arrangements must guarantee all entrenched groups a place in the countries political institutions.

Governments should recognize mistakes and withdraw support before it becomes entrenched or too costly.

In democracies, repeated elections lead to short term policy choices. In autocracies like China and Russia, leaders resist the radical reforms that would reduce the power of entrenched lobbies and interests, thereby fueling social unrest as resentment against corruption and rent seeking boils over into protest.

This is notably the case where entrenched groups Kurds, Shiites, Sunnis compete for central power.

Like traditional myths, such graphic, shared images embody fears that are deeply entrenched in our psyche.

Prior to 2003, Iraq was still ruled by a brutal tyrant, whose regime seemed permanently entrenched.

While legislation alone could not change deeply entrenched cultural practices overnight, it was a first step.

We all know that progress cannot be achieved on disarmament with such rigidly entrenched national viewpoints.

The official discourse is entrenched in statism and centralism, with growing disregard for democratic principles and procedures.

As a result, Britain, France, and The Netherlands contain deeply entrenched subcultures of alienated, radicalized Muslim youth.

Elsewhere in the post Soviet world, Georgia s success shows that determined governments can reduce even entrenched venality.

As in other post Soviet societies, changes to deeply entrenched attitudes could only be achieved over time.

Interests

But, in the decades since, the Arab world s rulers, regimes, and practices seemed to have remained firmly entrenched.

They are a homegrown challenge to an entrenched political order, and they are riding a powerful historical current.

In 1990, a popular uprising against an entrenched military dictatorship brought the first real push towards sustained democracy.

But Smith stressed that private interests always pursue selfish interests

But the LDP worked hand in glove with Japan s deeply entrenched bureaucracy, of which the prosecutors are a part.

The lesson is clear security interests must come before business interests.

Security Interests

We have to hope that the same kind of outcome will emerge from the financial scandals that have produced public outrage analogous to that directed at the food industries in Upton Sinclair s day. As was the case then, public outrage today is at a level that might well overwhelm the lobbying efforts of entrenched interests.