Sentences with phrase «personal stakes in it»

I agree that a lawyer can be objective because they do not have any personal stakes in the case.

Both Mr Yeo and Lord Deben have significant personal stakes in the «renewable» energy industry, which benefits to the tune of billions of pounds a year from wind subsidies.

Do we need annual testing to tell us that income segregation means that constituencies with political power have no personal stakes in the outcomes for disenfranchised constituencies?

Lee Daniels, the director of «Lee Daniels» The Butler,» discusses his personal stakes in the story and working with Forest Whitaker on the way the character grows and changes.

Especially if a critic accuses a researcher of incompetence or worse, it shouldn't surprise anyone if they react emotionally and have personal stakes in the debate.

At the time, several Democratic lawmakers were pressing Icahn for details about his advisory role, saying his personal stakes in biofuels and pharmaceutical industries posed potential conflicts of interest.

The motion downplays his personal stake in the funds themselves.

Taking his bank bonuses in Scotia equity, rather than cash, he's built up a sizable personal stake in the company worth $ 34.5 million in shares and deferred share units, plus options worth another estimated $ 48 million.

While O'Leary emphasized in his sales pitches that he, too, was an investor, the filing notes his personal stake in the funds transferred to Canoe amounted to less than 1.2 per cent.

His personal stake in Facebook will be worth around $ 19 billion.

Yahoo! Finance senior columnist Michael Santoli, discusses news GoPro founders broke the lockup restriction by gifting 5.8 million shares from their personal stake in the company to their foundation.

Hoke's personal stake in the company comes from her own rise and fall: She had been a successful venture capitalist but several years ago, she lost her job and had to start over.

Talk about having a personal stake in your work.

Though he would not confirm whether he would want a personal stake in a Clinton prosecution, Giuliani stood by the evidence he believes is enough to cause significant setbacks for Clinton.

The alliance of interrelated entities that combine their talents, skills, and resources to bring this hardware infrastructure to life have a personal stake in its success.

According to this article, he still holds a large personal stake in WR Grace (and what must be a massive personal deferred tax liability of something close to $ 100 million — he bought the stock for $ 2 in the early 2000's).

A larger down payment also increases your personal stake in the home.

Bair has a personal stake in Bitcoin and blockchain technology; she is on the board of Paxos, a fintech company and blockchain settlement platform, as well as its itBit cryptocurrency trading services division (itBit and Paxos rebranded and branched in 2016).

At that point, it was about masturbation only (no one had made a comparison to homosexuality), so, without much personal stake in the debate, I thought to myself «See, this is why people don't like the answers, not (always) because it doesn't let them do what they want, but because the answers are sometimes very poor indeed.»

All you have is a book that was cobbled together from old myths and edited by men who had a personal stake in what was included in that book.

Near the end of his life Frei reflected that his personal stake in Lindbeck's argument was very deep, and he exhorted Lindbeck not to back down from his truth claims about the truth status of Christian language.

Now, as a Presbyterian, I have no personal stake in the doctrinal position or discipline of the Roman Church, beyond the obvious point that, if she were to change on same - sex unions, it would make the fight for religious liberty much more difficult for all of us.

I feel as though they have taken a personal stake in our product that is rarely seen in the business of copacking.

I had a personal stake in those kifaru — I helped in procuring them from Natal.»

This enabled all the volunteers to feel like they had a personal stake in the project's success.

«If Cox sells the GOP to the highest bidder, he should at least be up front about his personal stake in the industry.»

The best author for a letter of recommendation is one who can demonstrate objectivity; he or she should demonstrate «independence from the foreign scientist, i.e., that he or she has no personal stake in INS?s decision and that the letter arises from professional and not personal considerations.

It was completely unrelated to my previous work, but — as with my initial interest in atmospheric research — I had a personal stake in the topic.

Collaboration with the Foundation, where everyone had a personal stake in the outcome, kept Vertex on target.

I had a personal stake in working with soy - I raise milk goats, rabbits and chickens.

None of the characters have any growth or personal stake in the story.

But our main eyes and ears on the ground belong to Lena (Natalie Portman), a biologist from Johns Hopkins University, harboring a secret personal stake in the mission.

The latest trailer for Deus Ex: Human Revolution was released today, showing a bit more gameplay and hinting at Adam's personal stake in the proceedings.

Both characters have a deeply personal stake in keeping an Infinity Stone out of Thanos's hands.

Harley Quinn made her live - action film debut in this year's Suicide Squad, exciting so many fans that actress Margot Robbie put personal stake in a Harley Quinn solo film, which will reportedly involve Batgirl and the Birds of Prey.

Wyatt adds a neat subplot, where Franco cares for a father, suffering from Alzheimer's, so we can see the personal stake in it for him.

Director Roland Emmerich, a man who knows how to spin a glossy and over-the-top fantasy as in INDEPENDENCE DAY and THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW, and even the speculative history to be found in ANONYMOUS, tries hard, but his style never clicks with the subject matter, despite his best intentions and personal stake in telling the story.

Suddenly, Jane has a personal stake in the election, and out comes a keen, mercenary instinct.

Dave known's my family so he has sort of a personal stake in this material.

«I needed to find a way to present this problem to them so that they could then arrive at this decision that, «Wow, I really want to do something about it» — so they would feel a personal stake in this problem,» recounts McCann.

So one should reflect upon values in the civic domain, to get people to feel they have a personal stake in those values.

It means giving teachers and students a focus to their school mission and a personal stake in the school, and creating a system that ensures accountability for results.

This gives them a personal stake in the training.

Because middle - class parents and suburbanites have no personal stake in the gap - closing enterprise, reforms are tolerated rather than embraced.

In general, those who have the strongest personal stake in and the most immediate connection to the school are the ones who should tackle the issues.

When the districts used a dynamic process of continuous review and advice by all parties of new policies and programs, principals, teachers, and district leaders developed a personal stake in making sure the changes would ultimately be effective.

It's an oft - noted irony of the confrontation in Chicago that Mayor Rahm Emanuel sends his children to the private, $ 20,000 - a-year University of Chicago Lab School, which means his family doesn't really have much of a personal stake in what happens to the school system he is trying to reform.

He is very genuine and takes a personal stake in all of his customers.

Or should more definitive guidelines be established by more objective parties, without a personal stake in the answer?

If you are a fan of Colbert, you presume he's got the inside scoop and back him without carefully considering what he says and what his own personal stake in the argument might be.