Sentences with phrase «entrenched industry interests»

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Meanwhile, other up - and - coming tech giants often seem more interested in disrupting entrenched industries than they are in serving their customers.

The people of the United States became mere spectators as an array of ideological extremists, vested interests, and foreign operatives — including domestic neoconservatives, Ahmed Chalabi and his Iraqi exiles, the Israeli Lobby, the petroleum and automobile industries, warmongers and profiteers allied with the military - industrial complex, and the entrenched interests of the professional military establishment — essentially hijacked the government.

Resistance from entrenched interests and within the industries themselves are among the factors blocking innovation from flourishing in the nation's manufacturing sector — forces that are also prevalent in other legacy sectors such as energy, transportation, construction, health care, higher education, agriculture and to a lesser extent defense, the two experts said.

He referred to them, along with the entrenched education establishment, as an «industry» that is more interested in protecting the rights of its members than improving the system for the kids it purports to serve.

The multi-billion dollar testing industry — dominated by a few large corporations that specialize in the making and scoring of standardized tests — has become an entrenched interest, a powerful component of a growing education - industrial complex.

This panel will examine the hidden (and not so hidden) structural issues that can make or break a startup in the publishing space — everything from chaotic and expensive data, to mis - targeting customers, industry bias, rights issues, unimaginative gatekeepers, friction from entrenched interests and more — and how to thread the needle to get the best chance of success.

Here is an inspiring story of one man's courage to stick by his guns against an entrenched establishment and decades of stale traditions; to refuse sell his soul and his long - term rational self - interest, even for over a million bucks; and in the process, to become an innovator in a foundering industry.

Decision making is dominated by «historically entrenched domination by industry representatives and interests.»

Stumbling its way through political deals and compromises among politicians guided by local interests and large entrenched industries, in an environment where most detractors erroneously proclaim profound economic gloom and doom in an effort to frighten the public into submission, the legislation somehow made it past the House.

That seems idealistic, at best, in a world with deeply entrenched interests linking ranching, the agrochemical industry, and giant restaurant chains.

Progress has been hampered by opposition to change from entrenched interests — a mix of household consumers, industry and trade lobbies.

Still, biofuels have persisted not so much due to perceived environmental benefits, but to entrenched interests by the big agricultural industry, lobbyists, and governments.

To compare the Liberals to the Republican Party is an interesting one that confirms they are beholden to the entrenched and incumbent industries that will take the planet to the brink at any cost in their drive to retain profits from their assets.

They also represent the entrenched interests of the fossil fuel industry and the reasons they keep throwing tens of millions of dollars at our decision - makers to maintain systemic status quo.

But such ideas face formidable resistance from a political establishment beholden to entrenched interests — the oil and coal industries — that stand to lose out.

Critics say there is a need to be vigilant, in order to avoid self - regulatory models that entrench private interests and shut out consumers — a pattern that has often been prevalent in the condo industry.