Mr. Nigel Chanakira, Kingdom Financial Holding, Pretoria, South Africa

Financial regulation is driven by the interests of banks, health policy by the interests of insurance companies, and tax policy by the interests of the rich.

This means that the financial world measures risk according to its own interests.

The Organization's financial disclosure programme requires designated staff members to file a confidential statement of their financial interests every year.

Europe is backtracking on financial reform issues its policymakers are too preoccupied with holding the eurozone together.

In a pure democracy, both the majority and the minority each have common interests and that is basically the only rope holding them together.

CAMBRIDGE In principle, holding gold is a form of insurance against war, financial Armageddon, and wholesale currency debasement.

As such, China and other countries are holding a depreciating asset that should be managed to serve domestic interests rather than those of the US.

Holding free and fair elections may not be the primary issue, but nor are they issues that should be shelved in the interests of stability and expediency.

It is because politicians are in the pockets of financial interests, they said, that the regulatory environment allowed those interests to reap huge rewards at great social expense.

Second, no trade agreement should put commercial interests ahead of broader national interests, especially when non trade related issues like financial regulation and intellectual property are at stake.

For every million raked in by a financial satrap, there s a gang of guys left out holding an empty bag.

None of this makes sense for global security, or even for the financial interests of donor countries.

The advanced countries, with their dominant corporate and financial interests, had set the agenda for those negotiations.

It tried to redefine itself as a more normal financial institution, less committed to holding long term strategic stakes in companies.

By holding that American apartheid violated the constitutional command of equal protection of the laws, the court struck a blow for justice at home and American strategic interests abroad.

In addition, a proposed change has been made to the Regulations to make the electronic holding of records easier for financial institutions.

Americans have seen how financial firms put their own interests ahead of those of the country and the world.

The causes of prostitution mainly lie in financial and gender inequality which the criminal networks exploit in their interests.

After all, what developing country with its citizens long term interests in mind will be prepared to issue bonds through the US financial system, when America s courts as so many other parts of its political system seem to allow financial interests to trump the public interest?

Some of these prominent academics received significant sums to promote the interests of large banks and other financial sector firms.

Critics are trying to identify the ideas as well as the interests that were responsible for financial and economic dysfunction.

UNICEF agrees to liaise with UNOPS to ensure that financial procedures for direct construction adequately safeguard the interests of UNICEF.

Disagreements about how to re regulate the financial markets are deep, owing to countless taboos and the huge interests at stake.

According to Palizdar, Ayatollah Rafsanjani has major financial interests in an oil company in Canada, and also the touristic island, Kish.

Meanwhile, Mathieu Pellerin, a researcher at the French Institute for International Relations, believes that financial incentives take precedence over political interests

He also has a network of people that monitor the activities of NGOs to ensure their compliance with his financial interests.

Today, by contrast, such debates are too often centered at the IMF, where the financial interests of the advanced industrial countries predominate.

(d) The transfer of security rights in sale, loan, holding of or agreement to repurchase securities or other financial assets or instruments held with an intermediary

Holding Charities Accountable

Holding countries accountable

(e) The transfer of security rights in, sale, loan or holding of or agreement to repurchase securities or other financial assets or instruments held with an intermediary

Holding gold can also make sense for middle class and poor households in countries for example, China and India that significantly limit access to other financial investments.

Twenty first century legislators seemed to be more democratic, responding to their voters possibly misguided wishes, rather than primarily to powerful financial interests.

And, in the wider triumph of the precepts of financial deregulation and market completion, both interests and ideology have clearly played a role.

Are you holding her?

We're holding back traffic.

By exiting the EU, the UK would severely damage its economic interests, losing both the single market and London s role as a financial center.

That orthodoxy often went hand in hand with the national, corporate, and financial interests of the advanced industrial countries, or so it was perceived.

It made the valley of tears bearable both by offering financial and other assistance and by holding out the promise of membership and economic prosperity in the near future.

Business and financial interests, in particular, are delighted with the outcome, crowing about the bonanza about to be unleashed as Congress liberalizes India s economy further.

(a) Holding public office and

The teacher was holding me.

Young boy holding Shafik poster.

Brian is holding Kate's hands.