Sentences with phrase «of private interests»

We need a systematic inquiry into the power of private interests over the political elite.

This is a classic example of a unique and useful reference work resulting from years spent in pursuit of a private interest.

But in the large majority of cases it was evident to us that they put the public's welfare ahead of private interests.

Generally, we think of meaningful work as a luxury good or scarce resource — something a few lucky people possess, and which is simply a matter of private interest.

She also exposes the corruption of private interests investing in politicians who then turn public education resources over to those same special interests.

It also raises a more significant question about the extension of compulsory acquisition powers for the benefit of private interests and the appropriate application of these powers to Indigenous land rights.

«Politics first» grounds our work: Politics is the lens through which we view the world, and we are committed to analysis that is free of political bias and the influence of private interests.

In a modern democracy like Canada, a deep state typically comprises leading owners and executives of major private interests and their allies, together with a selection of politicians and bureaucrats tied to the success of those private interests.

The peculiar nature of the materials it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

What is required is the public regulation of the mass media, by reference to standards of worth, in such a manner as to prevent their arbitrary employment for the advantage of private interests, either through deliberate manipulation or through giving the public what it thinks it wants.

Muñoz argues yes: Even if the founders believed government's primary aim was to secure rights, they still upheld an objective standard of human good, to which law should conform, regardless of private interests.

It was largely replaced by the overwhelmingly private philosophy of liberalism, which justified public action almost exclusively on the grounds of private interest.

He takes a benign view of private interests, one which is presumably informed by the type of people who fund his election campaigns.

The «invisible hand» of the market is an instance of such a «contrivance of nature»: a fortunate coincidence of private interest and public good which, together with the natural human propensity to «truck, barter and exchange,» can lead a commercial society to a state of opulence in which everyone flourishes.

For current purposes, however, they help to demonstrate the commercial republicans can not fully avoid the concern with corruption — the privileging of private interests over the common good — that exercised the classical republican tradition.

[4] O'Donnell wrote: «The issue of shareholdings and trusts and the handling of private interests more generally is of course covered quite extensively in Section 5 of the Ministerial Code.

Instead, Miliband must stand against any attempts to further extend the power of private interests over our public services.

Two provisions of the ethics law prohibit such appearances by town officers or employees under certain circumstances, such as the representation of a private interest or the inducement of another official to violate the ethics statute.

With NYC officials and local landowners left to head up sampling and cleaning facilities, a number of private interests could easily sway air - testing results.

Sarah Darer Litman shines a light on what is really driving «education reform» in the great state of Connecticut: the desire of private interests to get their snouts deep into the rich pickings of the public trough.

But the notion that resistance to the Common Core is an expression solely of private interests is wrong - headed and insulting.

In 1872, Congress made it the first national park, a «wonderland» removed from the grasps of private interests.

Many foresaw this over the course of industrialism in the service of private interests.

«A compelling, sometimes chilling explanation of how public safety has been sacrificed on the altar of private interest.»

The ensuing discussion was a simple proxy of some of the issues I was beginning to see raised in the discussions surrounding climate engineering proposals: controversy around the legality of intentionally changing the atmosphere (on any scale), suspicion of private interest in the name of the public good, confusion regarding the science behind it, unpredictability of the outcomes, or questionable logic of nature conservancy rules, to name a few.

She then states that in addition to public interests a private body like DVGW can also rely on special reasons of private interest and on fundamental rights:

They are accorded the privileges and power that they have on the condition that they assume duties and responsibilities that serve the public interest; this is different from satisfying people's private interests, including and especially their own, or from the public interest being merely the sum of private interests.

... The legal practitioner who ventures into this field must know not only the detail of the Native Title Act, but must also have a thorough understanding of the common law system of tenure and its different estates as well as the various statutory schemes by which the several States and Territories have, from time to time, provided for the creation of private interests in and for the use by governments and individuals of public lands.

Indeed, while republicans had tied the rise of self - interest to a negative story of change and corruption, in this nascent language of political economy of the eighteenth century, individuals» pursuit of their private interest was thought to be consistent not just with social and political order, as Albert O. Hirschman argued in The Passions and the Interests, but with social and political progress.

It is a story of appalling poverty and of private interests, usually with American backing, trampling on democracy.