Sentences with phrase «from powerful vested interests»

During the battle for healthcare reform, for instance, reformers were able to pass legislation only with a relatively high degree of cooperation from powerful vested interests, and the reform itself amounted to a reorganization of existing submerged policies rather than their elimination.

Not exact matches

The rest of MAGAnomics is of the same vein: transfers of economic and political power from ordinary working families to the powerful interests that have backed Trump and his billionaire cabinet.

The powerful opposition rebalancing would necessarily unleash — from groups the Chinese press had dubbed «vested interests» as early as 2007 — always made it unlikely that Beijing would implement significant reforms before 2012.

In sum, what started last April with a call to action to join the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to prevent a mega fossil energy project from threatening a primary source of fresh water has grown into a public interest campaign with powerful implications for energy development, the environment, and the rule of law.

If we interpreted letters we received over the years from family and friends the way that powerful church organizations interpret scripture to protect their own interests we would see the error in how we minimize God's creation.

Many pastors from Smith's day down to our own time have questioned this conviction that the powerful incentive of self - interest is a servant of the public good.

Furthermore, the present system has created in the broadcasters which benefit from it a very powerful set of vested interests opposed to change.

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The 26 - year - old has established himself as one of the most commanding and powerful centre - halves in the Premier League, and in turn it's no surprise that there's interest from elsewhere.

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The ethic encapsulated in Christ's immortal warning that «ye can not serve God and Mammon»; in the Book of Deuteronomy's complex provisions for redistributing resources from the rich and powerful to the marginal and dispossessed; and in the Islamic tradition's prohibition of riba — lending money at interest and acquiring it in unjust ways — is the strongest barrier we have to the indefinite expansion of the empire of money.

Cuomo noted that his office has gone after some very powerful people who have contributed political cash to him, using this as proof that he can't be swayed from acting in the best interest of the «people of New York State» just because someone throw some money in his direction.

As attorney general, Eric will continue Andrew Cuomo's aggressive but fair tradition of standing up to powerful interests so that everyone in New York State has equal justice and protection from their government.»

Although much of the criticism of Blair's failings come from those civil servants Bower interviewed — all of whom had vested interests — there is no doubt that Blair's style of leadership was to avoid conflict and not to master detail or to undertake to confront his over powerful Chancellor.

«From battling the flood of corporate money and corrupt insiders deals that infect our politics to challenging the powerful interests that block common - sense gun violence prevention, Bill has always been a voice for everyday New Yorkers.»

It has been many years since New York State had a governor with the vision, judgment and authority that it needs now to turn Albany's budget from obesity, to resist powerful interests, to plot a course out of an ethical netherworld in which state the government has become a national embarrassment.

A growing interest in thermoelectric materials — which convert waste heat to electricity — and pressure to improve heat transfer from increasingly powerful microelectronic devices have led to improved theoretical and experimental understanding of how heat is transported through nanometer - scale materials.

«We've now shown that our method is a powerful way to identify antibiotics from natural products and understand how they work before they are ever purified,» she added, «potentially shaving years off of screening efforts by identifying which organisms and growth conditions produce interesting bioactive molecules.»

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For years, some reformers have argued that powerful establishment - oriented interest groups prevented government leaders from acting boldly here.

Ross noted that powerful special interests are lobbying for increasing education privatization and pro-voucher mega-donors from across the country have larded Republican politicians with campaign contributions.

The flow of dollars from powerful interests has put education near the center of the campaign and possibly exaggerated differences between some of the candidates.

«Teachers unions, historically one of the most powerful interest groups in American politics, are being besieged like never before — under attack from conservative GOP governors with a zeal for budget - cutting even while taking fire from some Democrats, including President Barack Obama, who has suggested he agrees that unions can be an impediment to better schools.»

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They are an interesting element, I think, because while they seem all - powerful, they do not have a central power of their own aside from their ability to take it from external sources by force and instilling fear: stealing power from another by drinking their life force, weakness in the setting a strong collective belief symbol like a cross, etc..

In an interesting aside, the various agencies and even private businesses who have taken it upon themselves to voice their opinions to congressional groups involved in this investigation seem to be bookseller associations and ebook platforms from across the country who are urging their elected officials to not make any decisions that would result in making Amazon even more powerful than it already is.

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Worth more than $ 55 billion, Buffett has prospered from putting time and compound interest, the most powerful force in the universe, on his side in investing.

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It is interesting that despite owning the more expensive and powerful console from Sony, fans will still have to wait a while before they can utilize the hardware and play the game on 4K when the game itself is releasing almost 3 weeks after the launch of the new console.

This exhibition is the first of its kind to explore how shared values and interests have inspired artists from different cultures and times to create distinctive, powerful works that speak to their experience of the West as both a destination and a home.

I have a longstanding interest in the way artists dress, from Picasso to Hockney, Georgia O'Keeffe to Robert Rauschenberg, and I think their wardrobes exert as powerful an influence on mainstream fashion as those of any rock or Hollywood stars.

From that time until now, powerful interests located in the political economy have relentless sought to denigrate the virtual mountains of scientific evidence relating to environmental degradation and resource dissipation.

The «hockey stick» scientific «scandal» has been manufactured from the start on non-existent evidence, and promoted diligently on behalf of powerful interests.

So the «good Anthropocene» is a story about the world that could have been written by the powerful interests that have got us into this mess and who are fighting so effectively to prevent us from getting out of it.

A powerful and innovative international journalistic effort has revealed the web of interests — from boat captains to European government agencies to fish auctions — behind the devastation of Atlantic bluefin tuna.

For years, it has often seemed that those most passionately pressing for a rapid transition from still - abundant fossil fuels to non-polluting energy sources have been as focused on attacking each others» arguments as they have on fighting powerful interests defending the status quo (as well as perhaps the biggest foe — inertia, both in society and infrastructure).

The U.S. influence, moreover, is all the more powerful because most Canadians have no clue when the exhortations coming from Sierra Club, Greenpeace or the David Suzuki Foundation are financed by U.S. interests, to further a U.S. agenda.

In fields from medicine to finance, within the private and public sector and increasingly in the world of science, calls for transparency have grown in response to perceptions of hidden interests and lack of accountability amongst powerful institutions and individuals.

To implement cuts approaching these levels within two decades would require all major democratic nations to elect governments wholly committed to dramatic structural change and resolved to over-ride the most strenuous objections from powerful interests.

It enfranchises the very groups that have the most to lose from conventional climate policies — from powerful corporate interests to many of the world's poorest people.»

They've written letters to the government demanding that Ottawa stop a swarm of activist groups backed by foreign billionaires from hijacking — as the prime minister himself put it — the hearings over the Canadian Northern Gateway pipeline that would carry our oil from Alberta to B.C. Canadians have been calling into radio shows and writing blogs, and spreading the word in their communities about the fact that this crucial decision over Canada's national energy policy is being infiltrated by what are essentially the well - paid lobbyists of wealthy and powerful foreign interests.

However, one must remember that CAGW has become a multi-billion dollar big business, with many powerful interest groups already benefiting or hoping to do so in one way or another from it.

I worry especially that younger scientists might be deterred from going into climate research (or any topic where scientific findings can prove inconvenient to powerful vested interests).

TreeHugger: In your speech to the conference you said, «Business is the most powerful force in our society today Business has incredible power and influence over our society, all of which [it uses] in the narrow interest of business, which is to make money We would not tolerate that from any other major entity in society, but it's okay for business.»

imagine for a moment you've been teleported to a parallel universe where powerful interests and ideologues wouldn't be out to game such a system from day one to further their myopic interests, as they without question would (look at the reviewer comments on ipcc drafts by denialists for a mere inkling - that's the effort that goes into something that has little to no bearing on anything):

Under intense pressure from powerful industry interests, the EPA opted not to require meaningful technology requirements that would protect ecosystems.

But we are skeptical that a morally permissible deployment would also be politically feasible; we fear that the rich and powerful would arrange for any SRM deployment to cater to their own interests, which may well diverge from the interests of the poorest and most vulnerable.