In Karelia, IKEA has taken the lead to develop responsible forestry together with authorities, NGOs and local interests.
But some students on campus said that it isn't a question of national versus local interests at all.
Opposition politicians argue that the LDP wants to shield those local interests--which represent powerful political constituents--from their fiscal responsibilities.
The Suez case is not the first this year in which France demonstrated its aversion to cross-border activity when local interests are targeted.
She doesn't have a political base, Bill Clinton is showing renewed interest in Haiti (not good), and powerful local interests want her out.
With this approval, the BLNR has recognized TMT's goal of responsible development and environmental stewardship of Mauna Kea in close partnership with local interests.
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Yahoo is friendly with foreign governments, hitting the international conferences and meeting heads of state to talk Internet policy and plead Yahoo's local interests.
He thinks the only antidote to hate radio is rival FM transmissions, run by locals who speak familiar dialects and cater to local interests, from farming to music.
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While DOT officials emphasize the agency's sensitivity to local interests when plotting bike-share locations, some in Williamsburg see a double-standard that runs contrary to the spirit of the new system.
Ventures like World Coffee Research must also overcome friction with national research institutions that often aim to protect local interests, notably in Ethiopia, believed to be the fatherland of Arabica.
Beijing insists its auto industry needs protection as it forms conglomerates, but there is little sign China's 120 auto-makers want to join hands, linked as many are to local interests.
For all the central government's green talk, a complex web of local interests sometimes linked with powerful figures in Beijing often frustrates efforts to deal with the problems that lead to such unrest.
To make sure they do so, Italians will need to shed their ignavia and to become more active and demanding -- not in their sectional or local interests, but in the national interest.
In response to the debate, Environment minister Stewart Stevenson said the role of SNH was only to advise but it was he who had "the power to protect local interests" and he would exercise that power.
One is that local fishing interests be represented on the project's liaison group.
The report says the PCC wants to "stand up" for local community interests.
These achievements underscore the sea change in Malaysian foreign policy that has moved away from perpetually balancing border security with local political interests and also keeping the neighbors off-balance.
The Conga project has become a lightning rod for larger debates about whether mining can benefit local communities without damaging the environment and whether or not national economic interests should trump local opposition to mining activities.
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The parties remain largely inchoate, the legislators undisciplined and beholden to local rather than national interests.
He added that he was "uncertain the closure is in the interests of local people".
The commission recommends that, in the interests of local accountability and providing additional members with a broad constituency link, additional members should be elected using small top-up areas.
My book tries to shed light on the interplay and often diverging interests between local and central government officials and why improvements are sometimes much slower than the central government wants.
And it is sustained, not by outside elements, but by local and Russian criminal interests, who profit from extortion and the smuggling of all manner of goods, including drugs and guns.
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This battle pits the interests of local Massachusetts retailers represented by The Massachusetts Main Street Fairness Coalition and the state treasury against Amazon and consumers looking to save on sales tax.
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Some drivers decided to go on a hunger strike in the brutal heat and began coupling their contract demands with arguments about the abuse of the local population by Western interests and Algerians from the north, said people familiar with the events.
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At the heart of Mr Victor's analysis is the fact that governments can and do enact policies aimed at reducing emissions, but they cannot reliably predict how much reduction such policies always a mixed bag of regulation, markets and subsidies, tailored to local requirements, vested interests and political possibilities will bring about.
But it is not particularly true of his big opponents -- including the left-wing Democratic Party, which has its own scandals, its own selfish interests and, during the election campaign, its own evidence of the abuse of political power in the case of Italy's third-largest (and oldest) bank, Monte dei Paschi di Siena, whose business was allegedly run and distorted in the interests of local Democratic Party politicians in that area.
Svyazinvest was originally conceived both as a holding company for the state's interests in 86 local telephone firms across Russia and as a competitor for Rostelecom, a state-run near-monopoly in long-distance and international telephony.
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