Sentences with phrase «blatant conflict of interest»

Despite its technical staff ruling in 2010 - 11 that Greece's foreign debts could not be paid and hence needed to be written off, its heads — first Dominique Strauss - Kahn and then Lagarde — acted in blatant conflict of interest to support the French bankers demands for payment in full, and U.S. demands by President Obama and Wall Street lobbyist Tim Geithner to insist there be no writedown at all.

He was shocked at the apparent blatant conflict of interest: they now had two potential buyers but apparently they had nobody who would provide the service (personal representation to protect their interest) that they had contracted for by signing the Listing Contract.

When the mayor of a major city prides himself on integrity, on wanting to «clean up City Hall» and put an end to the «gravy train,» but then can not recognize a blatant conflict of interest when he sees one, you see «tone at the top» gone awry.

The movie also fails to disclose prominently that its produced by Sony pictures which is not a current rights holder for televised NFL football - a blatant conflict of interest.

Instead, it lends credibility to dishonest companies and presents a blatant conflict of interest to Canadian paediatricians.

Allowing a blatant conflict of interest to taint the investigation would only make the situation worse and we can not be a party to it.

He also suggested stricter limits on outside income could address the blatant conflicts of interests highlighted in both trials.

It is, at the end of the day, a blatant conflict of interest — and that's a fact.

If there is a positive aspect of the exposure of these e-mails, it will encourage governments to appoint climate science assessment committees which do not have the blatant conflict of interest that currently exists where the same scientists who are leading and participating on the committees that write these reports are evaluating their own research work.

The latter is either a case of putting your money where your mouth is or a blatant conflict of interest.