Sentences with phrase «powerful business interests»

With the help of the prison's chief trustee (Yaphet Kotto) and a compassionate ally (Jane Alexander), the warden effects some positive change, but powerful business interests line up against him when his ideas threaten their financial bottom line.

During the colonization of Brazil in the 16th century, land was doled out entirely to Portuguese royal families, and, today, productive land in the lowland savanna has been swallowed up by cattle ranches, soybean farms, and eucalyptus plantations run by powerful business interests.

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An elevator speech is a powerful tool that allows you to quickly spark interest in your business.

Nothing is more important to advancing freedom in the global economy and the liberties of the world's peoples than is breaking up the powerful cartel of businesses and governments in the U.S. and E.U. which have created and administer those rules for the world they have established to serve their own interests.

Many of Nussbaum's American readers would be familiar with the alliance between right - wing politics and religion, or with how powerful business elites advance their interests under the cover of ultranationalism and religious faith.

A powerful lobby of Australian business and education interests in Asia this week warned the move was already making it harder to recruit staff and would damage Australia's people - to - people engagement with Asia at a time when it was trying to build a closer relationship with the region.

I wouldn't make any distinction between Prince Charles and his business interests and any other powerful person in this country.

Opposing the convention is a broad array of powerful interest groups — including most of state's unions and environmental advocates — who argue that it would give business interests and other well - financed groups an avenue to weaken existing labor and environmental protections.

The state's most powerful Republi can is refusing to reveal whether he's earning legal fees from clients who do business with the state, a practice Gov. Cuomo says could involve conflicts of interest or even bribery.

On top of that, powerful interests close to Cuomo, like the hedge funders behind the charter school movement, some business people and municipal unions that have been fighting with the mayor (like the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association) could pounce if a challenger emerges, insiders say.

The attorney general's proposals do not directly address what he termed New York's exemption - riddled «swiss cheese» tax code, nor do they appear to limit the influence of powerful consulting firms that run politicians» campaigns and then represent business, labor and nonprofit interests seeking government benefits.

Their convictions just days apart in separate corruption cases are a major repudiation to the business - as - usual politics in Albany, particularly because their schemes involved some of the same powerful interests.

A powerful coalition of rights groups, business interests, teachers and magnet school parents prevailed over conservatives who would have allowed schools in Wake County to become resegregated.

According to an encouraging post by Mike Antonucci, the California Teachers Association (CFT's big union brother, and the most powerful union affiliate in the country) came out with some interesting new business items which are currently under review by its board of directors.

As we move forward to a brave new world filled with mobile payment solutions and the like, interest in this kind of powerful ecosystem makes good sense (let's not forget that BlackBerry made an entire business out of being trusted by government and industry).

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.

Its interesting to see that Amazon now has possibly the most powerful, and almost certainly the cheapest, publicity and marketing tool in the book business i.e.

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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.

If we can't do that, there are powerful interests aligned in favor of a «business as usual» scenario.

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 businessBusiness 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 businessBusiness 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 businessbusiness, which is to make money We would not tolerate that from any other major entity in society, but it's okay for businessbusiness.»

It's an obvious feature of practice that a lawyer's professional interest will generally gravitate towards the big, the powerful, and the rich — there's a business side to lawyering, after all, (though I'm not yet prepared to agree with those who say, reductively, that practice is a business), and, as a long - gone uncle used to opine, «It's got ta be fed and it don't eat hay.»

Staying on good terms with the firm was important to me and has proved very powerful in the long run, as my old firm has been a huge source of new business for me, and has taken a vested interest in supporting my new consulting practice.

Its mission is to support a fair and effective justice system and to help attorneys represent individuals who have been wronged, even if they were wronged by one of the most powerful interest or businesses.

Not sell it off to the highest bidders, who will of course be highly motivated interests like oil companies and large, powerful businesses?

Zuckerberg's outright denial that Facebook's business interests play a powerful role in shaping its behavior doesn't bode well for Facebook's chances of doing better in the future.

Ripple emphasizes on the fact that «distributing value is a powerful way to incentivize certain behaviors», that's why intends to distribute XRP primarily «through business development deals, incentives to liquidity providers who offer tighter spreads for payments, and selling XRP to institutional buyers interested in investing in XRP.»

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