entrenched interests

The issue is not competitiveness, but the protection of entrenched interests.

And when he tries, powerful entrenched interests line up to resist him every step of the way.

It is because a bid generally threatens too many entrenched interests.

But entrenched interests in Kenya and other countries taking on corruption are doing their best to battle back.

This is a real revolution because they are powerfully entrenched interests."

Cleveland's term as mayor was spent fighting the entrenched interests of the party machines.

Democrats, traditionally the party of movement and ideas, appeared to become advocates for entrenched interests.

It's to do with the economic situation, the slow rate of replacement, the entrenched interests, and perhaps even slightly the rivals.

The political parties in power get their slice of the cake so there are no protests from the entrenched interests.

Slowing the growth of spending, much less cutting it, has proved difficult for each party, given the entrenched interests that back nearly every government program.

Entrenched interests are still stronger than pledges of unity.

But the most formidable obstacle to online voting may be entrenched interests threatened by change.

And it is hard to imagine Congress financing jobless pay at the expense of entrenched interests.

He blamed his problems on inattention and "underestimating entrenched interests."

Are there entrenched interests impeding progress in this area?

Given how much was at stake, some hostile reaction from entrenched interests was probably to be expected.

It gives power to the youngster who doesn't have preconceptions and entrenched interests.

He added: "The louder a handful of entrenched interests scream, the more the public should be satisfied that we are doing it right."

Who will be less beholden to entrenched interests?

He saw bureaucrats as more likely to defend their own entrenched interests than to act to benefit the organization as a whole.

"Politics is not all about harmony," he said, particularly for someone who considers himself a reformer battling entrenched interests.

It is no longer clear that most governments are prepared to take on entrenched interests to help advance a freer trade agenda.

Far from welcoming solutions to our supposed needs, society's entrenched interests commonly resist inventions.

Few analysts think that entrenched interests can prevent the ultimate collapse of the centrally planned economy.

Nobody else ever mounts a successful challenge or a competitive race, because the system is so dominated by the entrenched interests."