Sentences with phrase «serve economic interests»

«Spreading fake news can serve to influence political decisions and serve economic interests,» the pope said.

Helping a startup get acquired if it is the founders» wishes even if it does not serve your economic interest.

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J. H. Woods, president of both the chamber and the Calgary Herald, said it was the organization's hope that by building gradually and progressively, «this monthly review for business men will serve intelligently the economic interests of the country and the greater unity of the Canadian people.»

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of MesoEconomic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesoeconomic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

It restates the Bank's approach to making monetary policy decisions within the framework of a medium - term inflation target, in way that supports sustainable economic growth and serves the public interest.

The legal concept of the documentary record is only pragmatically useful; it serves only to protect economic interests.

While the casinos serve certain economic interests, said Grey, they do not serve the broad interests of the community.

The recommendations of the Club of Rome were heavily criticized by business interests who had most to lose, but their claims served only to illustrate how much political and economic ideology is driven by self - interest.

McGovern also points out how U.S. economic interests regularly influence U.S. policy in favor of maintaining the political status quo, whether or not that policy serves the common good of Latin American peoples.

The concept of capitalism held that the best interests of all would be served if every person sought his own economic good.

Instead of being left to rely on deductive theoretical formulations about the economic or political interests served by ideologies, we are offered attempts to spell out a credible set of social factors that relate the actual producers and disseminators of ideas with their social environment, with interested audiences, and with sequences of action that put ideas into effect.

Because most theologians» own training and preoccupation has focussed on the rational discrimination of ideas, the concept of the mass media as integrated power and meaning - generating systems which are actively creating a mythological and heuristic milieu to serve particular social and economic interests is foreign to most theological educators.

Based on its assumptions about human beings, it argues that the greatest good of the greatest number is served best when each person works aggressively for his or her own economic interest.

He was chosen because he is not strong enough to have to be dealt with diplomatically, like North Korea or China, and because his regime is the key to what the unipolarists call «a transformed Middle East» — one that serves American economic and security interests and that renounces its hostility to Israel.

The more the mass media come to be controlled by large corporate conglomerates which have broad social interests and world - wide organisations, and which all serve the one economic system, the more this will become the case.

Mass - mediated culture primarily serves the interests of the relatively small political - economic power elite that sits atop the social pyramid.

For while the media, and particularly television, serve mainly as mediators of the culture, the political and economic interests of the media controllers pass the culture through discreet but generally well - defined filters which are effective in serving their own purposes, namely reinforcing the economic status quo and suppressing challenge in the form of specific critique or overall diversity.

Emefiele, who was represented by the Director, CBN Governor's Office, Olori Oghenekaro, described the collaboration as a welcome development that would serve the apex bank's interest in controlling inflation and stimulation of economic growth.

The FT disapprovingly quotes our manifesto «The conservatives often talk about economic and social crises as if they are unavoidable, a law of nature... Conservatives have pursued a policy of blind faith in the market - serving the interests of the few rather than the general public...».

A new governor will appoint people who are more attuned to the needs of the state — more interested in preserving the environment rather than selling it to developers, more interested in finding alternatives to the ever - expanding road building, more interested in serving the little guy rather than big business, and less interested in legislating social policy than planning economic development.

It's also welcome that McDonnell has explicitly reinforced the message that economic prosperity and social justice are two sides of the same coin; as our aims and values put it that means «a dynamic economy serving the public interest».

In short, parliament must be ready to exercise veto power over any Brexit deal that does not ultimately serve the national interest — because this government simply can not be trusted not to deliver serious economic self - harm on the altar of blind ideology.

The public interest is poorly served by a law that makes it easier for unions to hold out against any effort to change costly, outdated contract provisions during a period of intense fiscal and economic stress.

Blair Horner, of the New York Public Interest Research Group, said that the law has served as a distraction in a year when Albany has been rocked by the conviction of two former legislative leaders and a federal investigation into Cuomo's economic development projects.

«It is still the best approach and we are committed to doing what is in the best interest of our region's economic success and the citizens we serve.»

Instead of teaching students to be sustainable leaders for the 21st century in many business schools and economic institutes still is thought how to serve the interest of the individual without taking care of the common good.

To provide materials that will support the curriculum, taking into consideration the individual's needs and the varied interests, abilities, social - economic back - grounds, and maturity levels of the students served.

It probably won't compensate for whatever cultural and economic conditions serve up next for the business, whether it's reduced automobile access to congested urban areas, car - sharing replacing car - buying, less interest in owning a car that drives itself, or all of these factors.

Agents write the next chapter of the ebook revolution — Agents, serving the economic best interests of the best - selling authors, will bring new credibility to self publishing by encouraging authors to proactively bypass publishers and work directly with ebook distribution platforms.

This is more than a bit of an over-simplification, but I think it serves as an interesting visualization into how this genre can weigh the importance of economic management against the importance of unit management.

It is these types of actions, not regulatory overreach, that serve the best interest of safety and economic growth.»

Reuters further noted that Figueres believes it «can serve countries» economic self - interests» to cut emissions, and added that the negotiations included «carrots for participation by developing nations»:

Economic stability is best served with government at about 25 % of GDP, price stability through management of interest rates and money supply, balanced government budgets, effective prudential oversight, effective and uncorrupted enforcement of fair law and a commitment to free and open trade.

We often hear that nations will inevitably try to shape policy in ways that serve their own interests, where «interests» are largely defined in terms of short - run economic growth.

In accordance with the principles set out in the Preamble to this Treaty, association shall serve primarily to further the interests and prosperity of the inhabitants of these countries and territories in order to lead them to the economic, social and cultural development to which they aspire.

He is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), and serves on a number of boards and committees, including the Australia Pro Bono Centre.In 2009, Ed was presented with an Australian Leadership Award, and in 2017, he was recognised as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.From 2010 - 2016, Ed was chief executive of the Public Interest Advocacy Centre, a leading non-profit organisation that promotes human rights through strategic litigation, policy development and education.Ed was previously a Senior Lecturer at UNSW Law School, a research director at the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law and a solicitor in private practice.

We continue to serve the economic and social interests of our clients and communities.

[Bruce's] legal opinions serve our interests in protecting Aboriginal Title and Rights and serve to support our economic development and impact benefits agreements which are so important to our youth and communities.

Such restrictions, however, also served to advance the economic interests of lawyers through restricting price competition.

This philosophy is a well - trotted - out argument used by many left - wing, as well as by some confused right - wing, political theorest economists, in the name of of pursuing so - called equity within the operation of a now - centralist, so - called freely inspired, but controlled nevertheless, free market system of distributing goods and services in a manner serving the best economic interests of the most people most of the time... yes?

«Realtors ® want to work with Congress and the administration to design a secondary mortgage model that will serve America's best interests today and into the future, ensuring a strong housing market and full economic recovery.