Vested interests are everywhere.

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

Which country achieves this goal first will depend not only on revenue, but also on the political will to overcome vested interests.

The IPCC faced down these vested interests.

Vested interests may also play a role.

If reformers are to win, they must be prepared to fight the world s most powerful vested interest.

After all, vested interests do not welcome challenges.

A new global agreement must be science based, not a lowest common denominator compromise watered down by vested interests.

Business as usual and fighting to maintain vested interests

Although the central government may be committed to reforms, implementation at the local level can be very uneven, owing to parochial and vested interests.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Moreover, the power of vested interests that oppose reform state owned enterprises, provincial governments, and the military, for example has yet to be broken.

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

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.

As opposed to the handful of politicians and those who have a vested interest in this, the larger ultra orthodox public will benefit from sitting in the opposition...

So, no matter how conditioned the Egyptian army may be by its worldview and vested interests, it has no option but to facilitate the democratization process.

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 .

16.23 The responsibility for this subprogramme is vested in the Trade Development and Timber Division. The work will be carried out in conjunction with relevant activities of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the International Labour Organization.

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.

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.

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.

And yet service sector reform remains just out of reach for the region, owing to the absence of the political will needed to dismantle the vested interests that keep it there.

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

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.

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.

The fact that an individual is vested with the quality of organ of a State must be declared irrelevant and it must be stated that the rules on immunities do not apply in this case.