Sentences with phrase «conflict of competing interests»

This is not merely the healthy conflict of competing interests; it is the misuse of the democratic process by means of a fundamental dishonesty.

Not exact matches

27 Centrally, this approach involved policing not just for size but also for conflicts of interest — like whether allowing a dominant shoe manufacturer to extend into shoe retailing would create an incentive for the manufacturer to disadvantage or discriminate against competing retailers.28

Disney might have to divest a cable channel or two (the company's power over distributors would be even stronger; basically the opposite of the some of the concerns that halted the Comcast acquisition of Time Warner), and potentially be limited in its ability to make operational decisions about Hulu (Disney would have a controlling stake after the merger; Comcast was similarly restricted after acquiring NBC Universal, but there the concern was more about Comcast's conflict of interest with regards to its cable TV business competing with Hulu).

The certified statement would avoid the conflict of interest issues that mortgage brokers and banks currently face, and would have them competing more keenly on the cost of a loan.

As I'll discuss at the end of my presentation, political science only does this by dint of a systematic abstraction of our lived political experience, that is, by singularly emphasizing politics as the management of a conflict of interests rather than the prudential navigation of conflicts between competing claims to honor, or of competing claims to the good.

But they have failed to realize to what degree the sinfulness of all men, even the best, makes justice between competing interests and conflicting wills a perennial necessity of history.

Printing ushered in the Reformation and with it religious plurality and the differentiation of consciousness reflecting competing and conflicting classes and other interests (all struggling for the right to tell stories from their own points of view) in the same society.

He described the planning and scheming, the various competing and conflicting interests, the ulterior motives that operated behind verbal exchanges, the mixture of trust and mistrust, all of which provided, according to him, an unpromising environment for anyone who wanted to practice Christian love.

As the title of his lecture signals, Berlin's basic intellectual move was to distinguish between «negative liberty» and «positive liberty,» and then to defend the former as the only concept of liberty that could be actualized in the «real world» of inevitably conflicting interests, diverse concepts of the good, and competing human projects.

A conflict of interest may exist when the interests or concerns of any director, officer or staff member of the Rainforest Alliance or any of its Affiliates, or that person's Related Parties (as defined below), may be seen as competing with or in conflict with the interests or concerns of the Rainforest Alliance.

We end up with a politics that isn't really a conflict of ideas at all, but instead a series of different parochial interests competing with one another.

In rare exceptional cases where security concerns or competing commercial interests pose a conflict, code - sharing arrangements that still facilitate reproduction of the work should be discussed with your Editor no later than the revision stage.

One of the ideas that Williams is interested in continuing to pursue is the conflict between the ecology of pollen dispersal (the free - living phase of pollen ontogeny) and the ecology of pollen tube growth after pollination (where pollen is protected and competes with other pollen for fertilization success).

A conflict of interest arises in the workplace when an employee has competing interests or loyalties that either are, or potentially can be, at odds with

But weaknesses in many charter laws regarding authorizing and the animus of traditional districts toward charters have created a problem - plagued authorizing environment where 90 percent of today's thousand plus authorizers are the very districts that charters compete with for students — an inherent conflict of interest.

Although conflicts frequently arise among competing individual interests within a school community, a commitment to the education and welfare of children must remain the primary concern.

And it continues to pain me to take the author's side in this because that's also taking the side of... an actor I'd rather not acknowledge (not the author, but the «competing publisher,» who was engaged in an unacceptable conflict of interest and that's the good part).

In an effort to sound forward thinking, these agencies are ignoring the potential for conflict of interest and undermining the relationships they already have with publishers by competing with them.

As things stand, those Board members do not even bother to make required filings covering the conflicts of interest they have, like being an officer or director of a competing business regulated by the Board.

Even in forward - thinking cities like Austin, animals entering the sheltering system can end up dead when their situation, through no fault of their own, places them in conflict with competing and worthy interests like public safety.

The result is a suite of 160 clean and neat «what if» scenarios, but very little (at least if the summary reflects what's coming in the full 900 - page report at the end of the month) on how the more aggressive scenarios for cleaning up the global energy supply might actually be achieved in the real world of competing and conflicting national, corporate and personal interests.

It turns out he has his own conflicts of interest by profiting off of his actions when his wife bought stock in the competing oil pipeline company.»

Where Charter rights of prisoners to dignity and security of their persons conflict with the Charter right of female employees to equality of opportunity, it is necessary to balance the competing interests involved under s. 1 rather than having one set of rights override the other by virtue of s. 15 (2).

He states there can be no doubt that the competing interests which come into conflict on the application are both important and worthy of the protection and respect of the court.

You mustn't be involved either directly or indirectly with any other trade or business competing in or conflicting with the interests of...

Competing interests None of the authors have any conflicts of interest, including specific financial interests and relationships and affiliations relevant to the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript.

If banks compete in the commercial sector, there would be inherent conflicts of interest.

After a complaint was made, the Real Estate Council held a hearing and found that the licensee was in a position of conflict (she had placed her own interest ahead of those of the sellers») by listening to the presentation of the competing offer and then making her own offer without any advance warning.

This would require a change in representative capacity to eliminate this conflict of interest since the brokerage is legally unable to provide sole agency representation to parties on competing sides of a transaction.

Acting as an agent on behalf of competing buyers, when each wishes to purchase the same property, creates a conflict of interest for licensees.