Monopolies and vested interests are yet another source of resentment.
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The danger is that Brexit hands power to vested interests.
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Vested interests in Eskom and mining unions will resist both.
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It requires more than finding common ground among vested interests.
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Both Pakistan and China have vested interests in challenging India.
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VESTED INTERESTS Labour is lagging Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party by about 10 points or more in the polls but it hopes that targeting "vested interests" will win over voters ahead of the Dec.
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But there are powerful vested interests that resist carbon-cutting measures.
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In Japan the vested interests that resisted TPP would be comforted.
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These vested interests are now busy twisting arms on Capitol Hill.
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I believe in vested interests and a group looking after itself.
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She has vowed to tackle vested interests and ramp up competition.
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The political parties represented vested interests but were not particularly ideological.
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Vested interests will become more visible, and provide new decision frameworks.
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To tackle vested interests political leaders require "moral authority", argues Mr Solís.
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The world of medicine is filled with dubious claims and vested interests.
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Perhaps a greater barrier is a bureaucracy intent on protecting vested interests.
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But on both sides, party machines exist mainly to defend vested interests.
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But of course, there are vested interests he has to think about.
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Pledges to take on vested interests tend to be popular in Japan.
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Both Turkey and the EU have vested interests in a successful partnership.
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In the face of such mighty vested interests, it all seemed puny.
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That's going out on a limb, and going up against vested interests.
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Nor has she been afraid to challenge vested interests, including the police.
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One answer is vested interests benefiting from today's nonsensical health care economics.
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Middle East, but were thwarted by loopholes and vested interests—including the
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Needless to say, these would also make certain vested interests very angry.
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Do they have vested interests that are in conflict with the public?
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The United States has vested interests in both Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
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As they do so, regulators appear to be listening to vested interests.
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And I know they have some real vested interests in community policing.
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Vested interests and distracted politicians have often limited Europe's ambitions on digital matters.
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However, even transactions involving acquirers with vested interests can experience high execution risks.
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He has cut too many compromises and failed to confront Indonesia's vested interests.
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Even though he spoke for the little guy and not the vested interests.
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The STB should put consumers, workers, and the environment ahead of vested interests.
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Large state-owned companies with vested interests in fossil fuels sense an opportunity.
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Vested interests will cling to status quo, or make cosmetic changes, at best.
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Vested interests and out-of-date thinking lead to a bias against batteries.
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Such reforms often, or usually, founder on vested interests on which the autocrat depends.
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So I've got no argument that we need to take on these vested interests.
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States and the federal government have vested interests in protecting certain types of buildings.
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They invade other people's countries and kill innocent human beings for their vested interests.
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Powerful vested interests will continue to push for a slowdown in Chinese climate action.
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It created an environment of vested interests, which made it difficult to check corruption.
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There have been concerns about opposition from vested interests, particularly on land market reform.
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But often the beneficiaries of vested interests are not particularly rich or powerful as individuals.
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Sometimes that's because there are quacks or vested interests trying to spread lies and pseudoscience.
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How have you navigated these existing vested interests and converted people to the Tezzie religion?
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This will require him to take on vested interests in his own party, and quickly.
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The process is now open to public comment, and not just those with vested interests.
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Sometimes, these guidelines are used by vested interests to advance an agenda or control providers.
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"The people in charge today all have vested interests; we don't want them," she said.
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In his campaign Mr Moon pledged to take on vested interests and rev up the economy.
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Then, as now, a divided Tory party had to choose between vested interests and cheaper food.
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Both China and Russia have vested interests in the stability and the status quo in Venezuela.
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He lauded stock market growth under his presidency, noting Malaysia's vested interests in American financial markets.
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Over 70% of America's population believes that the economy is rigged in favour of vested interests.
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In recent decades the state has used it to help push through changes against vested interests.
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Disruptive start-ups do need to anticipate the regulatory reaction of the vested interests they threaten.
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We have no vested interests, therefore, we must commit to the agreement, implement and support it.
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They see an anti-corruption court as an essential tool for eliminating the power of vested interests.
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These bills will not ever become laws; there are too many vested interests at stake for that.
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NASA's plan does a decent job of satisfying key lawmakers who already have vested interests in space.
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But what I gradually came to believe was that the economy had been captured by vested interests.
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That's why creating a system that prevents co-option and capture by vested interests is so important.
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Second, liberals have to be eternally vigilant against the rigging of markets in favour of vested interests.
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She has previously accused vested interests in state agencies of sabotaging her attempts to fire corrupt officials.
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Missions should be focused on benefiting society, not on sustaining organizational or individual egos or vested interests.
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It's in the vested interests of the robber barons to keep all us workers using fitted sheets!
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Nor is it unusual to staff government agencies with officials who bring vested interests to the job.
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Today, many of the biggest and best-funded think tanks also depend on support from wealthy vested interests.
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Trained by America's FBI, NABU started to attack serious vested interests in Ukraine, provoking an inevitable counter-attack.
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Then Mr Xi reorganises the top brass in order (he says) to break down opposition from vested interests.
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The losers will be those whose vested interests and lack of alternatives keep them wedded to fossil fuels.
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Others, though goaded by public anger at inequality and corruption, will find it hard to confront vested interests.
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But as a result of overlapping remits, vested interests and patchy data, the plunder continues apace (see article).
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"There are so many vested interests," said Philippe Lamberts, president of the Greens group in the European Parliament.
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Whatever the true motivations of those with vested interests for continuing the Afghanistan misadventure, one thing is obvious.
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In February, Economy Minister Aivaras Abromavicius, a Lithuanian, stepped down, saying vested interests were blocking his ministry's work.
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Modi, in a telephone call with Johnson on Tuesday, said vested interests were pursuing their agenda with violent means.
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Still, some worry that Mr Cuomo has bowed to pressure from powerful vested interests, including hotel lobbyists and unions.
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Or the Affordable Care Act, hobbled by the influence of insurance companies, hospitals, drug firms, and other vested interests.
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Mr Cummings is an inveterate champion of reforming Whitehall and taking on vested interests (which he calls "the blob").
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Other employees, or potential employees, could worry that their vested interests could be clawed back based on unproven allegations.
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Ambani has previously said that the Congress party has been misled and misinformed by corporate rivals and vested interests.
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But progress has been slow given the small stakes on offer, sizable state control and concerns about vested interests.
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The scheme, however, has been mired in controversy and activists say vested interests have repeatedly tried to sabotage it.
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Mr. Edhi said he believed in humanity and was wary of people who used religion for their vested interests.
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Plus, you have VESTED INTERESTS at 17A, and 16A is so far revealing itself to be about a CREATURE.
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"Industry groups are deliberately pushing the worst-case scenario to safeguard their vested interests," NordLB analyst Frank Schwope said.
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Democracies huff and puff and, prey to vested interests and voters' distaste for hard choices, ultimately shirk the task.
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In his efforts to establish the Christian Church, St. Paul came into conflict with established authority and vested interests.
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Yeah. LG: Because they're people that are on the board who are involved and so they have vested interests.
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The levelling effect of competition means a constant struggle with vested interests that has played out for hundreds of years.
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This framework is not immutable, although formidable vested interests—including the police and prison officers—now back tough drugs laws.
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But it is not clear if any successor would share Abe's appetite for taking on the bureaucracy and vested interests.
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The economy minister quit at the start of February, complaining that corrupt vested interests were meddling in his ministry's work.
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But weak governments beholden to powerful vested interests are hardly the ideal way to raise the country from its slough.
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His economy minister resigned at the start of February, complaining that corrupt vested interests were meddling in his ministry's work.
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The study concludes that in many cases, objections and social responses to innovation result from intuitive responses and vested interests.
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The report also warned that vested interests and a rapidly changing economy were also standing in the way of progress.
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"I had expected it to be lower, as people representing various vested interests might vote against it," Mr. Cao said.
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The declaration by the mayor was his first real challenge to the president and the powerful vested interests around him.
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He will not lead a populist revolt in central Europe; he will probably spend more time fighting vested interests at home.
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None of this will be easy in a country where powerful vested interests have ensured that protectionism has predominated for decades.
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My problem is that this time its a case of vested interests trying to demoralise people from fighting for their rights.
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But there were also those who were the "mouthpiece of vested interests" and others who were "vultures pretending to be journalists".
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There's always an issue around climate skepticism because people with vested interests don't want to be limited in what they do.
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Ma also said the government should not worry about innovation, which it should back even if it threatened old, vested interests.
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"But if you look at the vested interests for society of eliminating discrimination against women, that far outweighs any regulatory burden."
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Recent M&A activity among EU banks has mostly been tailored to specific situations, such as where vested interests are already present.
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The millennial socialists think that inequality has spiralled out of control and that the economy is rigged in favour of vested interests.
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CONDOLEEZZA RICE: I'm quite certain it's hard in Beijing to get these things through because there are a lot of vested interests.
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The Chinese government needs this sector to cut debt and capacity, but it has encountered resistance from local governments and vested interests.
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Without a rigid definition of what constitutes fake news, it's easy to imagine corrupt authorities bending the law in their vested interests.
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And even Jokowi's detractors have never suggested that he himself is corrupt—only that he has been too accommodating to vested interests.
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But in the 1990s China's leaders did manage bold state-enterprise reforms involving bankruptcies and capacity cuts, that overcame such vested interests.
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But its allies have repeatedly expressed concern that vested interests and corrupt practices remain entrenched, partly due to weak rule of law.
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The latter resulted in more than 80 banks, used by vested interests to launder money and pocket bank operations, being shut down.
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That's not easy because there are many vested interests in the status quo...[but] business leaders have a role to play here.
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Airlines stand to profit by shipping vulnerable living beings; they can't be trusted to put animals' welfare above their own vested interests.
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Months of political infighting held up IMF-backed legislative changes aimed at limiting the power of vested interests and modernising the economy.
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Indonesia has a long history of protectionism, and vested interests have often stood in the way of trade and investment from abroad.
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In other words, they may be rewarded in the metaphorical "smoke-filled backroom" with campaign contributions or other favors from vested interests.
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The fifth, Economy Minister Aivaras Abromavicius, who resigned in February saying vested interests were making his job impossible, has not been replaced.
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ZS: It's rare for an artist to field so many vested interests when completing a project — and with so many different opinions.
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"This is a decision based entirely on vested interests and without any regard at all for the public interest," Mr. Muller said.
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"There is a history of animosity between Bitcoin factions with vested interests, and these tensions could flare up again," Mr. Hayter said.
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Mr. Kushner is fond of telling friends that he does not have "any vested interests" beyond seeing his father-in-law succeed.
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There are enormous vested interests in the status quo in China, and reforms could affect the Chinese Communist Party's control over the economy.
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On top of that, lobbyists and other vested interests have by now made a science of gaming the system to produce private benefits.
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Due to vested interests and bureaucratic momentum, smart markets have historically been nearly impossible to implement once a different system is in place.
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Getting tough with vested interests should also keep the IMF sweet if Ukraine struggles to keep up its reforms and fiscal austerity drive.
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He takes on what he regards as vested interests, berating architects for building carbuncles, opposing genetically modified crops and savaging modern educational theories.
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Authorities say regulation is also required to promote transparency in the NGO sector and prevent the pursuit of vested interests through illicit financing.
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The only ones who are arguing against these two little known parts of the act are those whose vested interests would be challenged.
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"There's actually some very real vested interests behind some of these distortions," he said, referring to Indonesia's endemic corruption but giving no details.
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The answer is yes, but it requires viewing poverty from the other end of the telescope and tackling vested interests on numerous fronts.
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"That means we need politicians who are willing to act in our interest rather than on the part of vested interests," Mann said.
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Months of political infighting have held up IMF-backed legislative changes aimed at limiting the power of vested interests and modernizing the economy.
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"These were ways of building constituencies that would be a cushion against opposition from vested interests in the royal family," Mr. Cook said.
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We all come to them with our biases, there are many vested interests at play, and it's hard to know what to believe.
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That would be another milestone for Ukraine, which is struggling to shake off the grip of vested interests and corruption in the country.
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The problem with other politicians, these voters legitimately reasoned, was too much indulgence of vested interests and too cowardly an obeisance to convention.
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Consider that historically speaking, it is actually unnatural for the best ideas to dominate and spread, thus allowing entrepreneurs to displace incumbent, vested interests.
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"Creating scares and spreading 'fake news' about polio drops may serve vested interests, but it's dealing a major blow (to our country)," she said.
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Widodo also promised to open up investment opportunities in a country where red tape and vested interests remain a potent force discouraging foreign capital.
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Though most cybersecurity experts agreed each successive draft improved on the last, people with vested interests in cybersecurity were impatient for a final release.
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Now opportunity is seen as the preserve of the elite: two-thirds of Americans believe the economy is rigged in favour of vested interests.
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"There are vested interests in North Korea," said Christopher Green, a researcher at Universiteit Leiden in the Netherlands who has interviewed North Korean defectors.
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After a year and half of relative stability, the allies are now forced to talk about difficult issues in which they have vested interests.
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In an apparent reference to Abromavicius's complaint that vested interests still dominated Ukrainian policymaking, Lagarde said she was concerned about slow progress on corruption.
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While these steps are technically and economically feasible, they require governments to challenge vested interests and relinquish some control over their national power systems.
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From Central America, I was coming back into a culture of elite, powerful people with vested interests who were close to centers of power.
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The vote on Tuesday is fundamentally about the degree to which all the political positioning among vested interests will be guided by popular will.
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"There are vested interests in North Korea," said Christopher Green, a researcher at Leiden University in the Netherlands, who has interviewed North Korean defectors.
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Others, including the US, also have vested interests in keeping the waters open as the area hosts one third of the world's shipping routes.
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There are vested interests that have an outsize influence on lawmakers, and government sometimes fails people, which justifies some of people's frustration with Washington.
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"Bridge is being singled out by other vested interests who fear the innovation and changes that Bridge could bring to the education sector," White said.
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Corruption, in both Ukraine and Russia, is so ubiquitous that it is better described as the capture of the state by oligarchs and vested interests.
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Like the post-financial-crisis era has shown, reform can be a painstakingly long and frustrating process in sectors where deeply vested interests reign supreme.
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But Paulson noted that reforms of state-owned enterprises face a lot of pressure from vested interests even as they remain important for China's market.
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The 39-year-old centrist has promised to transcend the traditional right-left political divide that has allowed vested interests to block fundamental economic reforms.
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North Korea is a prime example of how a country can implicitly threaten stronger regional powers into performing actions that go against their vested interests.
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The rise has fostered a suspicion that what Mrs May calls "monopolies and vested interests" have pushed up prices to unwary customers to inflate profits.
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Both countries, in addition to South Korea, have vested interests in making the meeting happen next month or at a later date, according to strategists.
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Mr. Danylyuk complained in his letter that "corruption and vested interests are increasing" in the State Fiscal Service, Ukraine's equivalent of the Internal Revenue Service.
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Mr. Trump promised to "drain the swamp" but proceeded to install various lobbyists, corporate plunderers and other vested interests in key cabinet and agency positions.
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But vested interests in the energy, farming, auto and other sectors mean they will have to fight to translate climate activism into concrete policy changes.
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The ruling class -- dominated by billionaires like Donald Trump and the vested interests that prop him up -- have played the same name-calling game for decades.
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But this week he has begun to find out what happens when the myth comes to Washington, with its competing power centers, lawyers and vested interests.
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Unaccountable bureaucrats rule vast areas of society and the economy at the behest of vested interests, an arbitrary elite who run major businesses and investment funds.
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The diminutive Arroyo, 69, was leader of the archipelago nation from 2001 to 2010 but her presidency was plagued by allegations of corruption and vested interests.
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Mrs May showed civil servants who was boss—no mean achievement in a huge and lethargic bureaucracy—and took on vested interests such as the police.
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Hers is not a hands-off-at-all-costs liberalism; rather, she sees the state as a policer of rules and a curb on vested interests.
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His successor, James Brokenshire, will take time to master his brief and get the measure of the vested interests that have run riot in this area.
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His former boss, a Georgian technocrat called Khatia Dekanoidze in charge of the National Police, described in a separate interview cases of vested interests undermining change.
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But the IMF has warned that the programme is at risk from the continued influence of vested interests on policy-making and within state-run companies.
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Extrajudicial killings—of environmental activists, journalists, labour leaders and others who confront the country's vested interests—have long been a fact of life in the Philippines.
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The IRGC and other vested interests built up by hardliners grouped around Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader, are hostile to foreign entry into Iran's economy.
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You can believe that blockchain has potential and still think that Bitcoin is a bubble — as many economists, not just banking executives with vested interests, do.
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Progress on eliminating the power of vested interests has been patchy, causing the IMF to withhold a $1.7 billion loan tranche for the past 10 months.
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But in the letter, Enders spoke of attacks by vested interests and urged staff to ignore "simplistic and nationalistic bluster" and to focus on industrial priorities.
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The new leadership has tightened its grip on civil society, but appears ready to tackle vested interests which have previously held up sales of state-owned firms.
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But they see few signs that Mr Liu, who is a deputy prime minister, has any mandate of his own to tackle vested interests opposed to reform.
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His often diffident leadership style has caused needless confusion; economic liberalisation has been slow; and he has shown less appetite than expected for taking on vested interests.
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The continued influence of powerful vested interests in politics and business, and weak rule of law, are repeatedly cited as key obstacles on Ukraine's path to reform.
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Some of Zuma's allies say Gordhan's importance is over-exaggerated and his close relationship with investors and ratings agencies shows that he is allied to vested interests.
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Her departure will deprive Ukraine of a tough reformer capable of taking on vested interests at a time when the country is recovering from a deep recession.
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So, in all this carnage, we hope and pray for a substantial humanitarian effort among the UK, US and other countries with vested interests in the region.
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The Leave side benefits from the Remainers' collaboration with various vested interests — funded, as it is, by Wall Street behemoths like Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and JP Morgan.
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It is doubtful whether policy shifts alone could revive coal mining, but the attempt to do so says much about how vested interests operate in this administration.
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Some analysts are skeptical officials will follow through with their Eskom plans in full, given fierce opposition from labor unions and vested interests in the energy sector.
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It takes courage to put principles above petty political advantages, to stand firm against vested interests and to openly call out religious bigotry when you see it.
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"We had really hoped they would have the reforms sorted but now that's not looking likely and vested interests seem to be taking over again," Ruijer said.
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His style of populism involves ostentatious displays of corporate activism — "going after" vested interests — and Big Tech at this point is as sizable as Big Oil & Gas.
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Xi pledged to break through resistance from vested interests to forge ahead with changes, with the aim of letting market forces play a decisive role in allocating resources.
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However, some analysts question whether he will be prepared to take on powerful vested interests and shake up a huge bureaucracy that often manages to blunt reform efforts.
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The head of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) Valeria Gontareva resigned earlier on Monday, depriving the country of a tough reformer capable of taking on vested interests.
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For instance, after years of trying to slash a way through thickets of bureaucracy and vested interests, big multinational firms now manage the bulk of the beer industry.
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"We see this as pure political revenge, part of propaganda designed to tarnish his image by vested interests for their own political mileage," Rajapaksha told Reuters, without elaborating.
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That creates a political opportunity for vested interests in Buhari's inner circle, who are uncomfortable with the northern-born president's relatively close relationship with his deputy, Cheto said.
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He ran up against vested interests in the circles of both the president and the prime minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk (pictured, being uncomfortably hoisted during a brawl in parliament).
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The American dream of going from rags to riches appears more achievable in developing Asia than in America itself, which seems ever more in thrall to vested interests.
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The project was first mooted six years ago but had been held back by government red tape and "other unnamed vested interests, which are corrupt interests," he said.
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These leaders could play a critical spoiler in peace talks with the Taliban, mainly to protect their vested interests and to avoid sharing the lucrative Afghan patronage pie.
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" Sanders then slammed network news and its little coverage of income inequality and the high cost of prescription drugs in the U.S. due to these networks' "vested interests.
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"Our political opponents stand where they always have stood - against change, against progress, and are servants to the same vested interests - the big banks and big business," Shorten said.
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He suggested the investigation could be a way of discrediting him ahead of elections next year and that he had been targeted by vested interests for pushing economic reforms.
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"I doubt she can deliver politics free from vested interests," said Minori Hiramatsu, a 28-year-old mother of one who was on her way to a job interview.
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I have gone time and time again to take on the vested interests who would keep women's health care decisions the province of the government instead of women ourselves.
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And governments must resist lobbying from vested interests in the extractive industries, keen to preserve access to land, minerals or timber, which Mr Castilla's scheme aims ultimately to curtail.
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"A new team offers new opportunities, but the challenges are significant - well-oiled vested interests have an excellent track record of delaying, diluting and distorting real change," he said.
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Structural reform has been painfully slow, says Yoichi Funabashi, chairman of the Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation, a think-tank, because the vested interests of the LDP still hold sway.
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Mahapatra urged countries to put vested interests aside in agreeing the new ISA framework, given the damage humans have already done to the planet's atmosphere, land and surface water.
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Danylyuk is under investigation for suspected tax evasion, which he says is a trumped up charge in retaliation for his efforts to root out corruption and tackle vested interests.
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Hanoi has been striving to trim stakes in state-owned enterprises, but progress has been slow given small stakes on offer, sizable state control and concerns about vested interests.
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"At the bottom of the conflict is tension between powerful vested interests and a new rising class," said Hu Xingdou, an economics professor at the Beijing Institute of Technology.
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If in the years ahead Mr. Xi's Red Aristocrats become even more entrenched and social mobility is further obstructed by vested interests, economic exploitation will intensify, fueling class differences.
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But rather than count on continued good luck of North Korea not delivering the gift, Washington should propose an interim deal to serve the vested interests of each nation.
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The Lesson: Climate change complacency tied to vested interests (coal, coal, coal) can be much harder to dislodge than the complacency around adaptation, which allows for more immediate visibility.
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"The government will most likely also continue to portray the demonstrations as an attempt by vested interests to preserve the inequalities created by the current pension system," Barroso added.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Five-times world champion Lewis Hamilton said decisions about Formula One's rules should be left in the hands of the governing body rather than teams with vested interests.
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"Anyone who favors public investing wants to bring back the uptick rule, but that's the problem: there are powerful vested interests that don't really care about public investing," Cramer said.
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Thiel, who sits on Facebook's board of directors and founded Google competitor Palantir, has vested interests in targeting Google and this summer accused it of having "treasonous" ties to China.
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Moldova this year introduced a new electoral law that the Venice Commission, a pan-European rights body, said could make the system more susceptible to undue influence by vested interests.
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Few bankers, investors or lawyers interviewed for this article expect the stop-start process of recent years - characterized by fickle policy making, vested interests and high valuations – to disappear overnight.
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Many EU nations are stuck, Sefcovic said, due to vested interests struggling to adapt to new competitors and the bloc's climate pledge to cut emissions by 40 percent by 2030.
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The currency reforms have all but rid Uzbekistan of its black market, which was netting the vested interests controlling it multi-billion-dollar profits, at the expense of ordinary Uzbeks.
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Look what's happening now with the government, a government which came into power by making the case that it wants to tackle vested interests and tackle the old oligarchic establishment.
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They have come on the heels of broader demonstrations last December, led by working-class men in provincial cities, against unaccountable vested interests and the corruption of the religious elite.
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There are strong arguments that all of these laws were compromised by the need to win support of unsavory vested interests and/or Republican senators, and didn't go far enough.
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A second danger is that fringe groups or vested interests use referendums to exercise outsize influence, particularly if few signatures are needed to call one and voter turnout is low.
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Vested interests in Tashkent rake in the cash from exports of gas, gold and cotton (reaped by a million forced labourers every year), while ordinary Uzbeks struggle to get by.
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Today power in the EU rests firmly with governments, and few seem minded to take on vested interests at home when the benefits of freer trade will be so diffuse.
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Rouhani embodies popular expectations that IRGC-linked vested interests seem determined to thwart, some Iranian analysts believe, because sanctions have enabled them to win and keep control of the economy.
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Funds supermarket Hargreaves Lansdown said the 1 percent cap was a "victory for corporate vested interests", and should have been set at zero percent to benefit a further 150,000 investors.
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Scientists made an impassioned appeal to governments and businesses worldwide to confront "vested interests" they said were blocking reforms in farming, energy and mining needed to save the Earth's ecosystems.
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Freer trade has always been an elusive pursuit because vested interests on both sides of the Atlantic, whether farmers or manufacturers, will fight to maintain tariffs that benefit their products.
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He will go into the meeting well briefed and keenly aware of the needs and fears of the vested interests within the regime, whose support he literally can&apost live without.
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Barriers to a seamless cross-border capital market include differences in national tax and insolvency laws, a vested interests of some market participants in heading off competition, and duplication of services.
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The party was long tangled in the web of cronyism, corruption and vested interests (ranging from oligarchs to the coddled armed forces) that left Greece uncompetitive, administratively dysfunctional and, ultimately, bankrupt.
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They had to battle the vested interests against free trade, freedom of speech and lifestyle, fair competition in markets, equality on the grounds of race, gender and sexuality, and wealth redistribution.
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In the film, Moore assigns blame for Trump's victory to widespread assumptions that Clinton would win, vested interests, and U.S. media that prioritized the big audiences Trump drew to television programming.
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Overall it means a government keener to confront foreigners, vested interests and especially the sort of polenta-munching elites who share each other's globalising enthusiasms, holiday villas and platforms at Davos.
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"A lot of reasons why things have taken so long is because there are very strong vested interests to regulate prescribing," said Leo Beletsky, a drug policy expert at Northeastern University.
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"My worst nightmare is the politicization of the relationship between the U.S. and Ukraine and, also, the usurpation of authorities, you know, for other people's personal vested interests," Ms. Hill said.
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Vested interests used that fear to sell some nostalgia about the incumbent fuels, masking their real aim of extracting the last bit of economic rents out of their tired, old technologies.
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"We purchased and acquired lands by individual negotiations from the land owners," Sinha told the Thomson Reuters Foundation, adding that a few people with "vested interests" were responsible for the unrest.
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At stake are the vested interests of the Revolutionary Guard Corps, which is not just Iran's praetorian guard but an economic empire, with vast holdings from banking to construction and manufacturing.
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He will use his first major speech of the election campaign to tackle what he calls "a corrupt system" and take on "the vested interests" of big business and media barons.
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Directors also stressed the need for the government to address "governance and corruption challenges, entrenched vested interests, and enforcement of the rule of law" in order to improve the business climate.
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Rent-seeking, special interest groups, lobbyists and those with vested interests are currently pressuring the STB to impose onerous rules that would lower rail shipping costs for their direct financial benefit.
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"There are a lot of vested interests that want to keep selling fertilisers and pesticides," said Emile Frison, member of the Brussels-based International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems.
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Chinese reform advocates say the government has been avoiding potentially disruptive changes due to concerns over economic and social stability and resistance from vested interests, such as powerful state-run companies.
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"There are a lot of vested interests that want to keep selling fertilisers and pesticides," said Emile Frison, member of the Brussels-based International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems.
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Ukraine's backers have seen a failure to bring corrupt lawmakers and senior officials to justice as an indication the authorities may lack the commitment to eliminate the power of vested interests.
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In the film, Moore assigns blame for Trump's victory to widespread assumptions that Clinton would win, vested interests, and U.S. media that prioritized the big audiences Trump drew to television programming.
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KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian Economy Minister Aivaras Abromavicius quit on Wednesday saying his ministry was being hijacked by corrupt vested interests, dealing another blow to Western hopes that the country can reform itself.
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Like anti-LDP forces in 1993 and the Democrats in 2009, Koike is promising to "shed the shackles of vested interests" - a slogan appealing to voters seeking an alternative to the LDP.
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Some Ukrainian officials have said they expected the amount to be reduced because of slower-than-expected progress on reforms aimed at limiting the power of vested interests and modernizing the economy.
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"I am concerned about Ukraine's slow progress in improving governance and fighting corruption, and reducing the influence of vested interests in policymaking," IMF chief Christine Lagarde said in a statement on Wednesday.
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It presents itself as the only movement able to clean up politics and take on vested interests, and wants to hold a referendum to decide whether Italy should remain in the euro.
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But Trump gave his supporters moments to rally around him as well, with his complaints about the vested interests in the Republican Party and his repeated denunciations of Cruz as a liar.
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Patchy reform progress, including on promised tax and pension changes, and signs that vested interests continue to influence policy have raised concerns among Ukraine's foreign creditors about the authorities' commitment to change.
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But Ukraine's backers have seen a failure to bring corrupt lawmakers and senior officials to justice as an indication the authorities may lack the commitment to eliminate the power of vested interests.
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"Several insurance companies transit vested interests to shareholders and related parties through non-financial units and well-packaged financial products," the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission (CBIRC) said in a statement.
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This is a government formed to ease the external pressure and conserve the vested interests of a political class; hence, it does not address the structural vices of the troubled South Sudan.
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And despite nascent negotiations between the US and the Taliban regarding a potential peace settlement in Afghanistan, Votel said that the US has vested interests in combating international terror groups like ISIS.
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Ukraine's leaders said its launch testified to their commitment to modernize the economy and lessen the power of vested interests in the wake of the pro-European 'Maidan' uprising in 2013-14.
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Lepore connects the apparent recent decline of political parties to shifts in the media, but isn't this also a result of the parties—and the mainstream media—becoming vehicles for vested interests?
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Soft budget constraints refer to the idea that state-owned firms will not be allowed to go bankrupt if they go insolvent because the state has vested interests in keeping them afloat.
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Described in these terms, as a deal easing the flow of cheese in one direction and cars in the other, JEEPA sounds like an old-style trade haggle prey to national vested interests.
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Koike, who defied the LDP last year to run for governor, calls her fledgling party a "reformist, conservative" group free from the fetters of vested interests — an often popular campaign slogan in Japan.
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His success or otherwise will depend on his willingness to take on parts of the old Greece and its vested interests; to take on, in other words, elements of his own political family.
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He has also restyled his party as a force for openness: bringing in candidates from outside politics; promoting a "glass [transparent] state"; tax cuts; and a war on red tape and vested interests.
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This shields both subjects from any questions or sensitive topics that put their curated image at risk, since the conversation is between two people who have vested interests in staying away from controversy.
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There are so many vested interests and so much public aversion to rapid change, so many governments to be coordinated, so many economic and technology trends that must fall just the right way.
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So any of these mechanisms that they come up with it has that weighting to it… So the people with the most vested interests in the network are also given the more votes.
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PrivatBank will be an important indicator of the authorities' ability to keep rebuilding confidence in the financial system (as seen in recent deposit stabilisation), tackle vested interests, and address potential foreign exchange volatility.
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Because she never gave up, and she succeeded in banning DDT despite the vested interests of corporations and the government—despite the fact that she was secretly battling the cancer that killed her.
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Lawmakers said technocrat Finance Minister Natalia Yaresko was likely to be dropped; Economy Minister Aivaras Abromavicious, a key driver for privatisation, had already resigned over what he said was meddling by vested interests.
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" Jeffrey Winters, a political-science professor at Northwestern University and the author of the 2011 book "Oligarchy," regards attacks on the Justice Department by ultra-wealthy players with vested interests as "very worrisome.
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The most recent tensions between the two countries are traced back to the French colonialists, who ruled much of the region from a distant Hanoi, and had more vested interests with the Vietnamese.
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Kasko's move follows the exit of Economy Minister Aivaras Abromavicius, who accused vested interests, including a close ally of President Petro Poroshenko, of meddling in his ministry and trying to siphon off state funds.
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"Jokowi's victory ... will be insufficient to break him free of the constraints of coalition partners and vested interests — elite political, military, religious and state-owned enterprise (SOE) leaders," Mumford wrote in a Wednesday note.
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Why it matters: Occupational licensing has been criticised by both Democrats and Republicans as unnecessary barriers erected by vested interests to keep new entrants out of the market, which reduce employment and raise prices.
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Ryanair's decision has drawn attention to the power of vested interests in Ukraine, whose government has vowed to tackle endemic corruption in exchange for a $17.5 billion bailout deal from the International Monetary Fund.
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The internal power struggle in the Islamic Republic is not just a philosophical argument between reformists and hardliners, but a battle to preserve the dominance of a theocratic establishment with vested interests and privileges.
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Ukraine has seen an exodus of reformist voices from official positions that has raised serious doubts about the Western-backed government's commitment to eliminate graft and the power of vested interests on policy-making.
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Poroshenko has been accused by activists and opposition politicians, including former Georgia president Mikheil Saakashvili, of either abetting or turning a blind eye to corruption and vested interests while paying lip service to reform.
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Yet the shift has left many behind: Mexico remains a country where over 40 percent of the population live in poverty, and political power brokers and other vested interests remain untouchable by the law.
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"This was about millions inspired by a radical manifesto that promised to transform Britain, to attack injustices and challenge the vested interests holding the country back," wrote Owen Jones, a columnist for The Guardian.
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Experience from around the world shows that decarbonizing modern societies is hard, and even harder in the face of the vested interests of industries and people still holding trillions of dollars in carbon stocks.
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These disruptions are inviting attacks on the practicality of electric vehicles and their potential emission benefits from vested interests like the oil and gas industry, which are then trickling down to the mainstream press.
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Successful politicians around the world — like Narendra Modi of India with his fight against corruption or Matteo Renzi of Italy with his willingness to confront some vested interests — are deploying some strategies from this playbook.
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Ryanair's decision could deepen concerns about the continued power of vested interests in Ukraine, whose government has vowed to tackle endemic corruption in exchange for a $17.5 billion bailout deal from the International Monetary Fund.
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The narrative unfolds through various frames as the figure traverses deserted landscapes as text quotes from the CNN documentary series Cold War make legible the vested interests of various foreign agents in Angola's civil war.
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In exchange, it promised to root out the corruption and vested interests that had helped push the economy to the brink of bankruptcy, but damaging disclosures in February highlighted a lack of progress in reform.
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Moves to liberalize access to professions such as pharmacies, notaries and taxis, have also failed to make headway, stuck in parliament for the past two years as the government avoids conflict with powerful vested interests.
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KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian lawmakers on Thursday shelved a draft law that critics say would have undermined the independence of anti-corruption institutions, which Ukraine's foreign backers this week said were under attack from vested interests.
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"Rest assured that under my leadership I will not allow police investigations to be politicized nor allow for people with vested interests to use the police for personal vendetta or a witch-hunt," Manning said.
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From previous experience, it is likely that vested interests in the EU will have their way and the EU will refuse to place agriculture on the table, torpedoing the chances of a comprehensive EU-U.
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Boschi, whose name has also come up in the phone-tapped conversations, said in an interview with Sunday's La Stampa newspaper the government was under attack because it was not close to Italy's vested interests.
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The bottom line: While the various health care camps fight to either keep the status quo or push for vested interests, drug prices continue to hammer the wallets of Medicare patients who need their medications.
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The president's boosters think that if Xi can put more trusted lieutenants into position, he will finally overpower so-called vested interests and deliver more aggressive reforms in financial markets and the state-owned sector.
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But the new cooperative bank rules have encountered resistance from some shareholders and local vested interests, while the bank rescues led to losses by some retail investors, and the suicide of at least one pensioner.
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Zingales, the author of "A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity," is also the director of the Stiegler Center, which studies how vested interests are subverting the competitive market economy.
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The process isn't smooth however: Jack has already encountered powerful vested interests such as opposition from state-owned banks alarmed by the rapid growth of his money market fund or plans for an online bank.
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No better future will be possible if those most able to bear the costs — those who've benefited the most, the wealthy and the vested interests of this world — don't step up to pay for it.
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"There is no silver bullet – no one-size-fits-all solution," he said, with the report also highlighting there was often resistance from individuals and groups with entrenched vested interests in maintaining the status quo.
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Hanoi has been striving to trim stakes in state-owned enterprises (SOEs), many of which have low profitability, but progress has been slow given small stakes on offer, sizable state control and concerns about vested interests.
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Lourenço has surprised analysts and diplomats by the speed at which he has sought to take on some of the entrenched vested interests that control sub-Saharan Africa's third largest economy and second biggest oil exporter.
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He said this was because some of the institutions, such as the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission, are poorly run with too wide a remit to operate effectively and also because of threats from vested interests.
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The collapse of the previous agreement highlighted the power of vested interests in Ukraine, where the government has vowed to tackle endemic corruption in exchange for a $17.5 billion bailout deal from the International Monetary Fund.
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Mr Renzi and his advisers are convinced Italy's woes are institutional, that under the current system structural reforms will be thwarted by vested interests, and that only a government with wider powers can modernise the country.
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Vested interests on both sides distort the argument—those sitting on valuable stocks of ivory or rhino horn obviously stand to profit from trade; and some conservationist NGOs' purpose and fundraising rely on a purist approach.
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"Sadly, it is clear that the vested interests of the tobacco industry have been able to corrupt the national law discussions with a series of superficially compelling yet completely false arguments," he said in the statement.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Nicolas Maure, brought in to turn around Renault-Nissan's Russian carmaker Avtovaz, is entering a lion's den where his predecessor fell foul of diving sales and powerful vested interests among shareholders, suppliers and workers.
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Economy Minister Aivaras Abromavicius alleged that corrupt practices and vested interests were harming his ministry and that it had become clear that "that any kind of systemic reform is decisively blocked," he said in a statement.
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Kiev's slow progress in enacting reforms, including reducing the power of vested interests in policymaking, has angered the Ukrainian public and delayed the disbursement of aid under a $40 billion International Monetary Fund-led bailout programme.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Wednesday unveiled plans for a "big bang" loosening of restrictions on foreign investment in nearly 50 sectors to encourage competition in an economy long dominated by powerful vested interests.
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Jailed after hardliners cracked down on protests at the allegedly rigged presidential vote that gave Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a second term in 2009, he does not underestimate the hostility of vested interests towards a more open economy.
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" He told me via email: "All existing sites were funded by advertising from service providers, therefore they had, and still have, vested interests in portraying a favourable and often false image of the paid sex scene.
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With the announcements, Mr. Xi is moving to strengthen his authoritarian leadership over the entrenched cadres and vested interests that his allies have blamed for frustrating reforms he promised in 2013, a year after taking power.
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We should just fix our issues with corruption, with monopolies, and so forth and so on, with vested interests," Honcharuk continued, "We will build strong institutions and fight corruption because we have a great team here.
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"The talk of climate change actions is very important because energy reforms will inevitably hurt some vested interests," said Lin Boqiang, an energy scholar at Xiamen University who has advised PetroChina, the big Chinese oil producer.
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"We ask any party which has influence on any of the warring parties to ensure that they recognize that the demand for humanitarian access is paramount and rises above all the other vested interests," O'Brien said.
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Reform campaigners and Ukraine's Western backers say establishing an independent court to handle corruption cases is essential for the ex-Soviet republic's efforts to cement the rule of law and reduce the power of vested interests.
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KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's central bank governor, Valeria Gontareva, resigned on Monday, depriving the country of a tough reformer capable of taking on vested interests at a time when the economy is just recovering from a steep recession.
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No one has yet systematically compared the results of vaping studies funded by vested interests to those funded by independent sources, but studies across diverse subjects show that industry-funded research tends to favor the study's sponsor.
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Tuesday's decision by the remaining members of Naftogaz's supervisory board to step down has highlighted the work the government still needs to do to convince its allies of its commitment to eliminate the power of vested interests.
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It is these intuitive fears of change and opposition by vested interests that has been key to driving legislative change at the regulatory level since the onset of the New Deal era, with increasingly calamitous economic results.
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It was a message directed at what he called the vested interests holding people back, and he named some of Britain's biggest business figures, such as media owner Rupert Murdoch and Crispin Odey, a hedge fund manager.
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It was a message directed at what he called the vested interests holding people back, and he named some of Britain's biggest business figures, such as media owner Rupert Murdoch and Crispin Odey, a hedge fund manager.
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Given the evolving research field and the vested interests, we need to pay attention to sitting time, standing, and physical activity levels as well as the role of industry players and their contribution to advice on health.
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Can you really bring in that many new people into the political process where there already are a whole lot of people who vote, and who have pretty vested interests in the context of an American election?
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Vested interests corrupt the policy process, lie to the American people and make decisions that further concentrate wealth and power in the hands of an elite few, with bleak consequences for the American people and our economy.
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In Paris, there was wrangling among delegates from more than 100 countries who attended the negotiations over the proposed inclusion of the phrase "vested interests" a reference to the sectors Watson wants to see weaned off government support.
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Ordinary Chinese people, however, are painfully aware that the central government can issue all the enlightened policies it wants, but that does not mean they will be implemented locally, or escape being undermined by corruption and vested interests.
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Robert Watson, a British environmental scientist who chairs the IPBES, said it would be possible to start conserving, restoring and using nature sustainably only if societies were prepared to confront "vested interests" committed to preserving the status quo.
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The most visibly successful reform to have emerged from the pro-European Maidan protests in 2014 is now under threat, serving and former law enforcement officials say, accusing vested interests of seeking to obstruct and discredit the force.
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But analysts, diplomats and politicians have been surprised by the speed at which Lourenço has tried to take on some of the entrenched vested interests that control sub-Saharan Africa's third largest economy and second biggest oil exporter.
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The shock resignations in February of Economy Minister Aivaras Abromavicius and a top prosecutor shone a spotlight on the failure of the Kiev leadership to follow through on promises to eliminate the influence of vested interests on policymaking.
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Seek the reason for the failure of the ingenious financial solutions that have been proposed, and it is difficult not to detect the hand of vested interests, or indeed simply the sheer inertia of a gridlocked congressional system.
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President Donald Trump made a promise to the American people to be a change-maker in Washington — a force outside the political class to take on the D.C. elite keeping corrupt systems running for their own vested interests.
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"We persuaded British lawmakers not to be swayed by the vested interests of the gun lobby, we asked them to put public safety first and to heed what the majority of the British people wanted," the letter said.
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In Paris, there was wrangling among delegates from more than 100 countries who attended the negotiations over the proposed inclusion of the phrase "vested interests" – a reference to the sectors Watson wants to see weaned off government support.
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The move will add to speculation that the authorities lack commitment to eliminate the power of vested interests as promised to backers such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
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He was the self-styled rottamatore ("demolition man"), who would smash Italy's complacent political establishment, take on its vested interests, stand up to the faceless Eurocrats in Brussels and set the country back on the road to economic success.
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"Investors will likely learn the pitfalls of investing in a country with entrenched vested interests, from the clergy to the Revolutionary Guard, and surprising linkages between banks and companies that lead to some investments turning sour," the note said.
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Notably, merger and acquisition exits — the principal monetization alternative — result in job losses in the short term as so-called redundancies are eliminated and acquiring companies often have vested interests in legacy businesses and less to gain from innovation.
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"This election is a once-in-a-generation chance to transform our country, take on the vested interests holding people back and ensure that no community is left behind," he will say according to excerpts released by his office.
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His connections to the vested interests of high finance make an obvious target for more progressive contenders for the Democratic nomination – and the billionaire now polls high enough to have to face off with them on the debate stage.
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However it's the opaque tech-fuelled targeting enabled by ad platforms like Facebook that's far more problematic for democracies as it allows vested interests to generate self-interested pressure remotely — including from abroad — while remaining entirely shielded from view.
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Lithuanian-born Abromavicius was brought in as a reformer under previous president Petro Poroshenko to run the Economy Ministry, but quit in February 2016 in frustration at what he said were attempts by vested interests to block his reforms.
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The problem is that each of the IGAD countries — Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Somalia, (north) Sudan, and Uganda — have their own vested interests in South Sudan, and they can't seem to agree on what to do to stop the violence.
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The effort is likely to be even more complicated than health care, given the complexity of the tax code and the vested interests it touches that are vitally important to the outside lobby groups that turn the screws on lawmakers.
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One of those vendors aligning itself closely with the US government or its vested interests would likely cause China to prohibit operators from working with it, following the US' lead, and thereby cutting that vendor off from a huge market.
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The scale of the challenge for any new administration was laid bare on Tuesday by the sacking of a reformist senior prosecutor, who at a news conference accused vested interests of throttling his efforts to tackle corruption in the prosecution service.
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With the risk of meddling due to the many vested interests swirling around Grasberg, Freeport has insisted it needs operational control before committing to a multi-billion-dollar investment for underground mining at Grasberg instead of its current open-pit form.
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But for all this attention to detail, he has failed to end years of endemic economic underperformance, disappointing many who had bought into his image as a "Demolition Man" out to vanquish the vested interests that have dragged Italy down.
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Macron has so far ignored voter anger and a precipitous decline in popularity, pressing ahead with policy to liberalize the heavily-regulated economy and confronting head-on labor unions and other vested interests he believes have choked growth in the past.
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Many of those companies are run by supporters and allies of Mr. Erdogan, and the vested interests of his close circle are thought to be one of the reasons that the president has fought to maintain control of the office.
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The declaration was the mayor's first real challenge to Mr. Erdogan and the powerful vested interests that have supported him since he took control of Turkey's largest and wealthiest city, long the power base for the president and his governing party.
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Most top Democrats had vested interests in the Clintons, and energy that went into supporting and defending them didn't go into fresh ideas and fresh faces, who were shut out as the party cleared the decks anew for Hillary in 2016.
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After Hurricane Katrina dislodged those vested interests and ended their power, formerly timid policymakers chose bold change, replacing traditional public schools with self-governing charter schools that close unless parents choose to trust them with their kids — much like private schools.
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The sale of Odessa Portside Plant (OPZ) is seen as a test of the Western-backed government's commitment to an ambitious privatisation programme that has faced repeated delays amid concerns vested interests could scupper efforts to rebuild the country along more transparent lines.
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"The Party of Hope looks a lot like the LDP, but doesn't have the same problem with vested interests," said Koji Sasaya, 82, a U.S. resident and longtime LDP supporter who traveled to Japan to vote in the election for Koike's new party.
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In his view, Italy's problems are so deeply rooted in institutional paralysis that only a government with broad powers, a stable parliamentary majority and a reasonable expectation of lasting its five-year term can defy the vested interests that hold Italy back.
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CHANGE NEEDED AT EVERY LEVEL Robert Watson, a British environmental scientist who chairs the IPBES, said it would be possible to start conserving, restoring and using nature sustainably only if societies were prepared to confront "vested interests" committed to preserving the status quo.
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And speaking of demonization: One unpleasant, ugly side of this debate has been the tendency of some Sanders supporters, and sometimes the campaign itself, to suggest that anyone raising questions about the senator's proposals must be a corrupt tool of vested interests.
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"It is important that Ukraine's leaders set aside their parochial differences, put the vested interests that have hindered the country's progress for decades squarely in the past, and press forward on vital reforms," the foreign envoys in Kiev said in a joint statement.
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The risk is that when crooked politicians offer such a tempting scapegoat, it becomes harder to convince voters of the need to reform a system that lets much larger vested interests take regular helpings of taxpayers' money in ways that are perfectly legal.
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"Wide-ranging reforms would still be needed to significantly improve Algeria's long-run prospects," Jason Tuvey, senior emerging markets economist at Capital Economics, said in a research report Tuesday, while warning that reforms may go against the vested interests of those in power.
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Mr Trump warned his supporters that—though he and they saw chaos, despair and stupidity in high places with clear eyes—vested interests in big business, big government and the establishment media would rush to tell them that they were wrong and foolish.
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The 2008 election didn't bring the political transformation Obama enthusiasts expected, nor did it destroy the power of the vested interests: Wall Street, the medical-industrial complex and the fossil fuel lobby are all still out there, using their money to buy influence.
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This would appear to be an instance in which the same lattice of vested interests that can cause dysfunction in Washington actually led to a proper result; it prevented a hasty change in policy that was designed primarily to assist one person.
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As he fights to manage the crowds, generate more revenue and improve the museum experience — including its chaotic ticketing system and long lines — will he continue to marshal popular support and prevail against a morass of bureaucratic restraints, vested interests and political intrigue?
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Africa needs to break the legacy hold of patriarchal geriatric leaders and open up governance to political outsiders, to women and to youth — to those like Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Abiy Ahmed — disrupters with new ideas, and not captive to vested interests.
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HANOI, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Vietnam on Wednesday announced changes to rules to speed up the privatisation of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), adding book building to a programme that has been weighed down by the extent of state control and concerns about vested interests.
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"You start to create vested interests in local government, in industry associations and in other parts of the private sector for more accurate data," said Huw Slater, research and projects manager for China Carbon Forum, a group in Beijing that monitors emissions trading.
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In Afghanistan, unexceptionally, there are vested interests on all sides in continuing the war because of the resources conflict attracts, antipathies toward sharing power, and the difficulty of justifying compromise with an enemy against the backdrop of human losses and entrenched narratives.
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"While we are in favor of free markets we will always take action to fix them when they are broken, we will always take on monopolies and vested interests when they are holding people back," May told the Conservative Party's annual conference.
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" He added that as vested interests, including a super PAC that supports former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., "have tried to strike him down, polls have shown Bernie and his working-class movement have become more powerful than they can possibly imagine.
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Simply put, scientific facts and truth are not the same as political facts and truth; democracy and science are often in conflict, and the differing groups that support the Democratic and Republican parties have vested interests in endorsing rival conceptions of truth.
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The likes of the European Union and China with economies deeply invested in climate action and dependent on multilateralism for global trade, or the likes of Saudi dissenters of climate science, with vested interests that put us all in the firing line?
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"I'm not sure how we chart our way back to that, and I'm not sure we can because of the money and the vested interests involved in the dialogue," said Burke, now an international security adviser with New America, a Washington-based political think tank.
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"We were seduced, we were lured, we were hooked, and then, when we became captive audiences, we were manipulated to see what other people — people with vested interests and evil motives of power and domination — wanted us to see," de Lima wrote to BuzzFeed News.
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In Ukraine, Central Bank Governor Valeria Gontereva has resigned — depriving the country of a tough reformer praised by investors and the International Monetary Fund — and seen as capable of taking on vested interests at a time when the economy is recovering from a steep recession.
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She not only has to contend with an opposition that only knows how to say no, but her administration also risks being hijacked by vested interests that were more than willing to follow Beijing's call, yet will seek to make her beholden to them.
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While western analysts largely view Xi's centralization of authority as having a possibly narrowing effect on China's potential for further radical economic reform, three sources with leadership ties said Xi wants a strong hand precisely to force through changes that are resisted by vested interests.
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But the cynic will argue that while many conservative lawmakers profess those points of view, they are often in the pocket of vested interests, like the fossil fuel companies, and as such are more in the business of protecting those who are already winning.
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Its officers, who control the most profitable business in the country, are afraid of a United States-engineered transition that will threaten their vested interests and undermine their control of the oil and mining sector, and have formed a cohesive bloc around Mr. Maduro.
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The muddled sale process has underscored Vietnam's relative inexperience and investor wariness about state control as the government seeks to push forward with a major privatisation drive - one that already been hampered due to the small stakes on offer and concerns about vested interests.
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CreateNYC treads lightly in its details, aware that it needs buy-in from vested interests and that a push too far will instigate reprisal from players they have little control over: goliath institutions and their boards, state government, developers, real estate lobbyists, and so forth.
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But those worries are being overblown by those with vested interests in keeping the prescription drug maze alive and probably a lot of well meaning people who may not realize that some of the most toxic medications are already over the counter and have been for decades.
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"Such tactics obviously jeopardise any hope of maintaining a moderately free press in Cambodia, but should also be of grave concern to all investors in the country who may find themselves on the wrong side of officialdom or vested interests with no viable legal recourse," it said.
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As such, large-scale public or private expenditure — whether perceived as worthwhile or not — will arguably always impede an artwork from being a purely aesthetic experience, so long as large amounts of money change hands and there are vested interests in the success of a project.
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But the reform of SOEs has barely begun, stymied by the vested interests of SOE managers and their political friends, by fear of increasing unemployment, and perhaps by Mr Xi's own oft-stated belief that the party should keep its hold on the main economic levers.
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With relations with the west looking shaky at best, Vadim Nikitin, assistant director of consultancy Stroz Friedberg told CNBC's "Squawk Box Europe" that there was an element of symbolism to the timing of the meeting with Russia but that, ultimately, the meeting was about vested interests.
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If the policies and programs in our federal budget were also scored based on the existing evidence base, and not speculation, vested interests or political leanings, the federal budget would be spent on what works, thus saving (not wasting) money and truly making a positive difference.
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The great detective-story writer was not to find it so easy a second time: He had to fight a legal machine with vested interests in obstruction, and the convicted murderer he was supporting was not a genteel professional but a gambler, a foreigner and a Jew.
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And that's partly by design: Enormous companies with vested interests in existing payment and monetization structures are always working to maintain the status quo or shift it in a favorable direction — companies like Google that rely on advertising, or Visa and others that power traditional payment methods.
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Critics of the anticorruption drive accuse those involved of using it for political purposes and of relying heavily on the use of court-approved wiretaps, while its defenders say that the effort was under fire because of its success in going after vested interests and powerful individuals.
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Almost one year on from her first day as prime minister — a job she took on after Britain's shock referendum vote to leave the European Union — May will urge voters and political opponents to help her "tackle the injustice and vested interests that threaten to hold us back".
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The President can currently only make inroads in certain sectors---infrastructure, fiscal, and the creative economy---but in order to see progress in other areas, such as anti-corruption and human rights, he must be strong enough to negotiate with vested interests that resist reforms there, Sukarsono continued.
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She had been advised by a team that reviewed a months-long mining audit last year to take gentler action against the mines - suspensions and fines - but she brushed that aside, and told Reuters that corruption and fealty to vested interests had plagued the DENR for too long.
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Some people might worry that the smart market for drones could benefit a few users at the expense of others, but this might be worse in heavily regulated systems that create vested interests and lead to regulatory capture, where an industry gains control of an agency meant to regulate it.
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But unfortunately, neither Biden's role nor the initiative itself has ever been secure because of its partisan birth and less-than-scientific momentum of bringing aboard those with political ties and some vested interests, not including those who might truly have helped change the landscape of cancer research and treatment.
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This is a case where the billionaire class is fighting back against the vested interests of defense contractors, of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, and other lobbies that have a lot of power in DC. How should I feel about that when I see that in the news?
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"Sinn Fein have been getting young progressives on board, people who think the number of homeless is morally bankrupt, and who feel they have been left at the mercy of landlords and vested interests, free to charge what rent they like because ordinary people can't afford to buy," Ms. Suiter added.
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Banks are not directing enough money to India's huge-scale clean energy push, for instance, Nasheed and Saran said, for a big range of reasons, from the quick pace of technological change to worries about risk in developing countries, vested interests and just greater comfort in lending to things they're already familiar with.
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Lawmakers balking at ceding vested interests targeted by Abadi have failed to convene parliament since protesters loyal to powerful Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, a vocal advocate of dismantling Iraq's quota-based governing system, breached the heavily-fortified Green Zone district two weeks ago and took over the assembly complex for several hours.
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The answer is a rebooted capitalism for a new economic era, using the power of the state where it is necessary to fix market failures and to break up vested interests, but also recognising the unique power of entrepreneurs to produce abundance out of scarcity and dynamism out of stagnation. Economist.com/blogs/bagehot
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While some countries resisted the phrase, the eventual inclusion of "vested interests" in the final draft was at least a symbolic victory for Watson and other scientists who hope their research will provide a mandate to politicians to withdraw state support from companies responsible for causing the most pollution and wildlife deaths.
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The right-leaning think-tank also argues that the market alone cannot solve the problem because it is dominated by vested interests, such as giant housebuilding companies (the only ones with the time and resources to negotiate the complicated planning laws) and architects (who for the most part subscribe to modernism and look down on what they regard as "twee" designs).
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"Certain vested interests will prefer India to remain import dependent and use our country as their market, making India spend hard-earned foreign exchange and lose millions of jobs," he said, in reference to a court-ordered stoppage of iron ore mining in Goa state, the campaign against the Thoothukudi copper plant and a shortage of bauxite for an aluminum smelter.
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With Spain, France and other EU member states lobbying for various national vested interests in that political declaration - a 26-page wishlist on future trade and security ties separate from the 585-page withdrawal agreement - there was concern in Brussels that haggling could get out of hand and derail Sunday's tightly choreographed formal summit of the 27 leaders with May.
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To reach that point, however, has been a case study of what soccer is in the 21st century, of all that it has become, that is hard to beat: a story of vested interests and power grabs, of broadcasters dictating what is on their screens, and of governments, and governing bodies, running a sport not for its own sake but for their own good.
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" In announcing the new loan, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said she and Zelensky agreed that "Ukraine's economic success depends crucially on strengthening the rule of law, enhancing the integrity of the judiciary, and reducing the role of vested interests in the economy, and that it is paramount to safeguard the gains made in cleaning up the banking system and recover the large costs to the taxpayers from bank resolutions.
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There are clearly a lot of others vying to be the go-to platform for small businesses to do their business — "Google, Facebook, a lot of the big players see the magic and are moving to the space more and more," Chestnut said — but Mailchimp's unique selling point — or so it hopes — is that it's the platform that has no vested interests in other business areas, and will therefore be as focused as the small businesses themselves are.
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"Abromavicius and his professional team have made important strides, implementing tough but necessary economic reforms to help stabilize Ukraine's economy, root out endemic corruption, bring Ukraine into compliance with its IMF program obligations and promote more openness and transparency in government… It is important that Ukraine's leaders set aside their parochial differences, put the vested interests that have hindered the country's progress for decades squarely in the past, and press forward on vital reforms," the diplomats said in a statement published online.
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