Sentences with phrase «powerful economic interests in»

I think we have plenty of whores willing to ignore scientific advice and general interest to cater to powerful economic interests in the US government.

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«Fossil fuel companies are very powerful economic interests,» said Ruth Santiago, an attorney in Puerto Rico working on environmental issues.

If the economic reform measures in India have therefore been sponsored by a tiny, though exceptionally powerful and influential, minority which is pursuing them to safeguard and promote its own narrow interests, they are unlikely to be of benefit to the bulk of the people, in spite of claims that they are not only necessary and inevitable, but also in the national interest.

The Islamic world encounters the face of Christian fundamentalism in the trigger - happy fundamentalist cowboy from Texas who, as president of the most powerful nation on earth, is ready to wage war against any nation that stands in the way of America's economic interests.

While agreeing with the Latin American bishops that the new churches were supported by «powerful ideological forces as well as economic and political interests [in the United States],» the document admitted that the evangelicals were fulfilling «needs and aspirations which are seemingly not being met in the mainline churches.

It is manifestly in the interests of the powerful majority to keep the marginalized on the peripheries of national life - social, economic and political.

Rhodes sought to channel the enthusiasm of Britain's nascent democracy towards a powerful assertion of national superiority, in order to distract the masses from their own exploitation, derail plans to redress economic inequality through social welfare reform, and legitimise an economic agenda pursuing the interests of a small financial elite.

As this article has inferred, mutualism has been somewhat underplayed in relation to private sector institutions, not least because it challenges powerful interests and appears to contravene the establish norms of neo-liberalism, which despite the crisis remain deeply embedded in the global economic order.

«The proponents of these projects include some very powerful economic interests, and no one can dispute the dire need to increase food security and economic development in Africa, where populations are growing very rapidly,» Laurance says.

We are well aware that the combination of powerful economic interests and weak government presence in Amazonian frontier regions results in conflicts over land and natural resources, and all too often in the assassinations of outspoken local leaders.

Employers and the economic interests of capitalism were protected by powerful common law defences: if a worker or co-worker could be shown to have contributed in any way (for example, slipping onto exposed machinery) the employer was not held at fault or liable.