Vested interests are everywhere.

After all, vested interests do not welcome challenges.

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

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

The IPCC faced down these vested interests.

Vested interests may also play a role.

For now, however, those representative elements that have been added incrementally are not powerful enough to overcome the growing corruption and excessive influence of vested interests.

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

Such appeals are often heard, but powerful vested interests make it hard for governments to follow through.

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

Executive authority is vested in the Governor, who is responsible for defence, external affairs, internal security and all matters that are not expressly defined as being of domestic concern.

Executive authority is vested in the Governor, who is responsible for defence, external affairs, internal security and all matters that are not expressly defined as being of domestic concern.

Business as usual and fighting to maintain vested interests

And now I have a sort of vested interest

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

The hopes that were vested in the Oslo Accords did not lead to an end of the Israeli Palestinian conflict.

By the authority vested in me by Kaiser Wilhelm II,

We must remain focused so that narrower vested interests do not hinder the achievement of goals set in the wider interest.

Corruption is rife, state capture by powerful vested interests is the norm, and institutional effectiveness and capacity for reform are weak.

Some of these constituencies have only a few hundred voters and are easily controlled by a small number of vested interests.

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

AREAS VESTED IN THE UNION OF REPUBLICS OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

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

It is undertaken not as an ordinary business under traditional conditions of laissez faire, but as one vested with the public interest.

Periodic elections are essential to ensure the accountability of representatives for the exercise of the legislative or executive powers vested in them.

10. The Attorney General is the Public Prosecutor and these powers are vested in him to the exclusion of any other person.

They are so committed to the fact that this society is the way it is, and that's all you can expect, and that's what I call vested interest in the ongoing game, and if you have vested interest in the ongoing game you are frightened by anything that might change it.

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

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

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

II. AREAS VESTED IN THE UNION OF REPUBLICS OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

By the powers vested in me by the state of New York,

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

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

Tourism depends on tranquility tourism enhances tranquillity. It makes friendship a vested interest.

Part II Areas vested in the Union of Republics of Bosnia and Herzegovina

In this regard, particular responsibility is vested with the sending and receiving States.

By the authority vested in me by the president of the United States...

This threat to vested interests remains the impetus behind the increasing threat of serious violent confrontation between TFG and the opposition, which is in reality an alliance of convenience to preserve vested interests.

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

Both countries face formidable resistance to reform from formidable vested interests and lobby groups.

With every vested interest fighting for itself, closed professions proved impossible to pry open.

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

But that window will close fast, because beneficiaries of specific reform policies have morphed into vested interests, which are fighting hard to protect what they have.

If politicians behavior is determined by the vested interests to which they are beholden, economists advocacy of policy reforms is bound to fall on deaf ears.