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The carbon market promised the world lots of things it has failed to deliver. The ETS is riddled with loopholes and in thrall to vested interest.

Tim Gore

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Marino trod on the toes of too many vested interests who didn't want to give up their privileges, they boycotted him and, without the need for any plot or alliance, they managed to bring him down.

Gian Carlo Caselli

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Clearly, if you're an illegal owner in Greece, you don't want this cadastre project ever to be finished, there is also a lot of resistance from other vested interests - surveyors, local notaries, property registrars - who could be out of a job once the project is finished. They put lots of legal and bureaucratic obstacles in the way.

George Papaconstantinou

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This confessional system is not only corrupt. It is built on vested interests by all the sects (whose leaders) keep their grip on their people... The politicians have devoured Lebanon.

Kamal Hamdan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's hard to take seriously a reform committee of FIFA that is full of football and Olympic insiders and officials, all of whom have an implicit conflict of interest through their roles as well as a vested interest in maintaining as much of the status quo as they can get away with.

Jaimie Fuller

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

With so many vested interests - dealers, hospitals, insurance departments and others - reform is not very fast.

Frank Zhao

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We applaud McDonald’s for joining with Coca-Cola and Visa. They understand just how vital it is that reform of FIFA is independent of the deep vested interests surrounding the organization and its personnel.

New FIFA

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We have a vested interest in this deal because we believe it will reduce tensions. Basically we don't want Iraq to be a score-settling ground between the United States and Iran.

Hoshiyar Zebari

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

My gut feeling says there are a lot of forces out there -- especially European vested interests -- that were never keen on November and December matches, so will quite happily use this to try and displace Qatar 2022.

Guy Thomas

Found on CNN
8 years ago

They have always been planning to run Hillary as president so the idea of Hillary being secretary of state and the Clinton Foundation getting donations from groups and countries including those in the Middle East that had a vested interest in turning policy a certain way, that goes to the very heart of the public’s concern about corruption in government.

Laura Ingraham

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The Lake Chad nations are battling Boko Haram and we have a vested interest in that group of nations' collective success ... What Boko Harm is doing is a murderous rampage, about brutality intolerance and subjugation, our national leadership has been very clear that more was going to be done ... There is an ongoing discussion on how will we provide additional tools, techniques, and material to partner nations.

Brigadier General James Linder

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The big question is whether this is part of a larger strategy of delaying elections, everyone who is in this new government has a vested interest in staying in government as long as possible.

Jason Stearns

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.

Joseph Schumpeter

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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