Sentences with phrase «narrow interests rather»

«We will listen to everybody but we are averse to economic team whose private sector members frequently steer government policy to suit their own narrow interests rather than the over-all national interest.»

Not exact matches

(Heffernan touches on the big - picture disservice in the media's insidious practice of narrowing our horizons for profit, rather than expanding them in the public interest: «[Media companies] know that when we buy a newspaper or a magazine, we aren't looking for a fight... The search for what is familiar and comfortable underlies our media consumption habits in just the same way as it makes us yearn for Mom's mac»n' cheese.»)

In addition, these low ownership thresholds would make it easier for stockholders with a special interest to use the company's proxy materials to publicize and campaign for their narrow agenda rather than the long - term best interests of all our stockholders.

As such, the most effective approach to building public support is to craft a trade agenda that aligns with the economic interests of the general public and the long - term economic prosperity of Canada as a whole, rather than focusing on the narrow interests of some business groups.

Consequently, investors in the US Dollar can plainly see that the interest rate spread between the United States and other countries will begin to narrow rather dramatically within the next 12 to 18 months.

When biblical scholars have interested themselves in ethical studies, they have tended to focus on rather specific, narrow topics: social justice, the status of women, war, vengeance, property rights, ecological concern for nature and the like.

First is strong voluntary associations, such as churches and civic groups, that bring people together around broad common agendas rather than narrow special interests.

As in the presence model, the networking / resourcing model ends up serving a narrow population with rather distinct interests.

That's why Helou chose the Australian Competition Tribunal route, based on national interest and national champion arguments, rather than sticking to a narrow definition of whether a local takeover might decrease domestic competition.

The people who are here tend to have the same views, some rather narrow - minded, because there simply aren't enough people to split into separate interest groups!

Such questions help us avoid narrow - minded fixes that focus only on encouraging girls» interest in STEM rather than considering the broader range of important factors.

Whereas Tidd added he was «interested in the potential» of «comparative judgment» — in which schools focused on knowing who are the better writers or mathematicians and who are the weaker ones, and intervening, rather than «narrowing» teaching because of requirements to submit data.

Pearce doesn't believe we need more and bigger dams but feels that we need to manage the water cycle better, to return to the ancient ways of «harvesting the water where it falls» but also utilizing high - tech irrigation methods to provide «more crop per drop», and above all, we need to «manage the water cycle for maximum social benefit rather than narrow self - interest».

This seems to result in a more diverse list of interesting titles rather than an increasingly homogenous and narrow list aimed at chasing the mass market.

Rather than trying to jam everything under the sun into your game, narrowing your scope and laser targeting on the most interesting elements can let you really find the magic in a simple design.

However, in the interest of fairness, it must be noted that the most likely GCM sensitivity for the ClimatePrediction.net model is going to lie somewhere within this range, and by weighting the * most likely * approximations more than the more extreme approximations (which ClimatePrediction.net has the wonderful luxury of exploring), the ensemble result is likely to actually narrow and clarify the range of «most likely» climate sensitivity, rather than broaden and smear it.

As a result, strategy is fragmented and often reflects the narrow interests of powerful individuals, rather than the proactive pursuit of best opportunities available to the organization as a whole.

Rather like we do as mediators, our task, in this instance, is to help and support each other in working together around this common purpose, overcoming the barriers of apathy and any notion that we are, in some way, competitors in a competitive market, seeking to protect our own narrow interests.