Sentences with phrase «powerful vested interests»

During the battle for healthcare reform, for instance, reformers were able to pass legislation only with a relatively high degree of cooperation from powerful vested interests, and the reform itself amounted to a reorganization of existing submerged policies rather than their elimination.

Sociologists are always in danger of being seen as paranoids, all the more so when they oppose powerful vested interests.

Whenever the findings of science have found themselves on a collision course with powerful vested interests, unfortunately those interests have seen the need to try to discredit the science.

But Evans» essential point is that while the dangerous - global - warming - hypothesis has been proved wrong, powerful vested interests seem incapable of admitting it.

The «gravy train» of government expenditures must continue rolling — powerful vested interests are everywhere and can not be ignored — and few, if any, government programs will be reduced unless such reductions are forced by absolute necessity.

The discursive construction of «the people» versus powerful vested interests is a familiar one in politics, left and right, and it has been used repeatedly by Labour leaders down the years, including Tony Blair (as Ben Jackson recounts).

Features that feed resistance to change within the legacy sectors, according to the two, include pricing structures that favor existing technology, powerful vested interests, financing structures that do not easily accommodate the long - term investment requirements of competitor technologies and longstanding regulatory and policy impediments to change.

Mann issued a statement saying the judge's ruling «is a victory not just for me and the university, but for all scientists who live in fear that they may be subject to a politically - motivated witch hunt when their research findings prove inconvenient to powerful vested interests.»

Dr. Mann, who now works at Penn State University, said in a statement: «It is a victory not just for me and the university, but for all scientists who live in fear that they may be subject to a politically - motivated witch hunt when their research findings prove inconvenient to powerful vested interests.»

Fortune — the fact that there are powerful vested interests, such as those who want to sustain the fossil fuel industry, or develop and selling carbon credits.

Once Bush is gone, the next president, almost certainly a Democrat, is likely to bring in some kind of carbon tax (or cap, trade, etc) and by doing it first, and doing it successfully, we can strengthen that president's hand against the powerful vested interests he will confront.

This means that the reporting of this issue has been biased by the the effectiveness of the media and marketing advisors on the each side of the debate, a debate that the contrarian side is winning due to the powerful vested interest backing it and because they can afford the media and marketing advisors to properly promote it.

I worry especially that younger scientists might be deterred from going into climate research (or any topic where scientific findings can prove inconvenient to powerful vested interests).