powerful interest
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpowerfulandinterest
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powerful
adjective
uk/ˈpaʊə.fəl/us/ˈpaʊ.ɚ.fəl/
having a lot of power to control people ...
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interest
noun
uk/ˈɪn.trəst/us/ˈɪn.trɪst/
the feeling of wanting to give your attention to something or of wanting to be involved with and to discover more ...
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(Definition ofpowerfulandinterestfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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They argue thatpowerfulinterestgroups with political influence can block financial sector development.
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That is, barriers to trade are used to protectpowerfulinterestgroups, which, in turn, provide political support for the ruling elite.
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These arrangements entail the presence of one or morepowerfulinterestgroups supporting the policy regime.
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Market-building reforms which seem promising for economic growth and prosperity would directly impair rent-seeking activity by potentiallypowerfulinterestgroups.
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Taft had let the party appear increasingly as the servant of variouspowerfulinterestgroups and had reverted to a conservative, legalistic view of the presidency.
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Exclusions have almost always been fiercely resisted bypowerfulinterestgroups, few treatments can be completely excluded, and public pressure to extend the lists usually results in increased funding.
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One of the mostpowerfulinterestgroups constraining the reallocation of public spending comprises public sector employees, who now constitute the core of the trade union movement.
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Only by taking into account the distinctive time horizons, policy preferences and influence ofpowerfulinterestgroups can we explain governments' varying responses to long-term social problems.
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Here is apowerfulinterest, private land monopoly.
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It is possible easily to imaginepowerfulinterestgroups wanting to use human embryos for research on a wide scale and perhaps for trivial purposes.
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Flexibility, in this context, is a euphemism for accommodating market forces andpowerfulinterestgroups.
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We in this country have apowerfulinterestin a world free of barriers, a world of free, fair and open trade.
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It has simply become another verypowerfulinterestoperating on its own.
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Rules like this are the product of pressure exerted bypowerfulinterestgroups to protect personal business affairs, and are not passed in the interests of the citizens.
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It may be a reasonable thing to allow, but it creates a new andpowerfulinterestwhich will come into the field and apply for licences.
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Too often the consumer is overlooked in favour ofpowerfulinterestgroups, such as landowners and farmers—consumers are important stakeholders and their opinions should be sought.
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Opposition by state political parties, or bypowerfulinterestgroups, has also contributed to referendum failure.
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Occupying the third corner of the triangle are bureaucrats, who are often pressured by the samepowerfulinterestgroups their agency is designated to regulate.
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High tariffs worked to hurt the economy, butpowerfulinterestgroups permitted no change in this aspect of policy.
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Market-oriented policy reforms alter the distribution of resources in society, producing winners and losers, and tamper with regulatory and distributive bargains that implicate powerful interests.
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