Vested interests are everywhere.

The IPCC faced down these vested interests.

Vested interests may also play a role.

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

After all, vested interests do not welcome challenges.

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

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

Business as usual and fighting to maintain vested interests

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

In both cases, the biggest winners were vested interests (Korea s business establishment and the Chinese Communist Party).

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

Law According to the Constitution of Estonia () the supreme power of the state is vested in the people.

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

In response to the recent wave of terrorist attacks, Vladimir Putin has demanded that even more power be vested in him.

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.

29.30 Responsibility for providing backstopping support for the work of the internal oversight programme is vested in the Executive Office.

Croatia has a vested interest in having the truth established and a strong interest in the Tribunal's successful implementation of its mandate.

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.

But, even in advanced countries, the influence of vested interests can lead to collective action failures and, in turn, to incorrect benchmark rates.

29.18 The responsibility for this subprogramme is vested in the Internal Audit Divisions I and II, headquartered in New York and Geneva, respectively.

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

In pre colonial times land was vested in groups which were based on common descent, residence in a particular area and participation in various activities.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Politicians saw little need to vote for further reforms, especially those that would upset powerful vested interests.

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.

Any INGO in the business of giving advice must be scrupulous about being and being perceived as immune from influence by vested interests.

Of course, new sources of growth in North Korea could threaten vested interests, leading to institutional rivalries, factional tension, or a conservative backlash.

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

16.22 The responsibility for this subprogramme is vested in the Trade Development and Timber Division. The strategy will promote five key work areas.