Vested interests are everywhere.

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

One of the major partners for United Nations country teams in pursuing these Action 2 objectives in many States will be national human rights institutions (NHRIs), which are independent governmental entities vested with competence to promote and protect human rights .

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

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.

All rights, including title, copyright and patent rights, in any work performed by a staff member as part of his or her official duties, shall be vested in the United Nations.

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.

This means that the guarantees of the human rights and responsibility for non discrimination in exercising such rights are vested in the State and the Entities, and that the authorities at all levels of decision making have to make sure that the human rights and freedoms protected by the Constitutions are protected, including the right to education.

The IPCC faced down these vested interests.

Vested interests may also play a role.

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.

After all, vested interests do not welcome challenges.

Because the proprietary rights accrued before the war in Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, the dicta in that case can really be relevant only as to the vested rights created by treaty.

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

This logic is exemplified by the Court's distinction between article III of the Jay Treaty (12 Bevans 13), providing border passage rights, and article IX of the same treaty, concerned with permanently vested property rights.

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.

By identifying the law with their vested rights, the oligarchs who have (for now!) derailed the ideals of the Orange Revolution sought to shield their own interests from challenge.

Indeed, according to the Charter, responsibility for discharging the functions under the Economic and Social Council, including the promotion of human rights, is ultimately vested in the General Assembly.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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