"People see Washington as a place of powerful interests, where they need a president who takes their side and stands up and fights for them, " says Tad Devine, a chief Gore strategist.
Indeed, they must place the interests of their clients even before their own.
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With institutional and private investors to placate, they believe microfinance companies will place the interests of shareholders above their clients.
Even so, it has disappointed some who thought it would more consistently place the interests of consumers above those of big business.
It's possible that the former group is either unaware or too entrenched in the "brokerage system" to understand that there is a much better business model available that would allow them to place the interests of the client above that of their company or its stockholders.
Sir Jonathan Michael, chief executive of Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust (OUH) which runs the Horton General Hospital, said the OCCG and the OUH "both agreed that the suspension of emergency abdominal surgery at the Horton should remain in place, in the interests of patient safety".
And too many times, Kenya has been divided against itself, torn apart by ethnic tensions, manipulated by leaders who place their own interests above the interests of their country.
Congress, that embodies the mechanism through which debate takes place while taking into consideration a number of interests and groups, is perceived by these reformers as nothing but an obstacle to the goals of those leaders who believe in the absolute rightness of their social and political program.
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While Rice says that in foreign policy "America's values are extremely important, " she hews closer to the tradition of Korbel and other realists, such as Hans Morgenthau, who place greater weight on defending strategic interests and tending to the balance of power.
But as president of the United States, I would be willing to lead tough and principled diplomacy with the appropriate Iranian leader at a time and place of my choosing if, and only if, it can advance the interests of the United States.
The whole problem in Africa is a consequence of Western vested interests in the place and it is such a tragedy to see it unfolding.
His Holiness clearly understood that the importance of protecting the health of people whether not yet born or already walking the planet far exceeds the business interests of those who would place our health at risk rather than retro-fit their power plants with the technology available to lessen the harmful effects of their emissions.
Now we come for something of consummate importance and thee, with thy dwelling place to be undisturbed, puts thy fox-hole before the interests of humanity.
Managers who place their personal financial gain before the best interests of investors should be required to fully disclose their violations and not be permitted to maintain that such information is confidential.
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There is evidence that as business leaders and entrepreneurs that women place higher values on stakeholders-interests, like those of employees, than do men.
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An MoD spokesman said there were legal statutes in place which mean installations of this type can be made in the interests of national security.
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And it was determined that it was in the best interests of all involved that this burial take place, again, according to Islamic requirements, at sea.
As long as firms like Goldman Sachs place a higher value on their own profits rather than the interests of their clients, or Muppets as they like to call them, then there will always exist a chasm between our firms.
It should, instead, be expanded to place international economic ties in the larger context of American national security policy and interests in Asia.
What this sampler is designed to convey is simply that for all the talk of the end of the Cold War and the reduction of tensions the world remains a very dangerous place for America and her interests.
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Mr Eglin is acutely alive to the way in which the received view of Bath, as a serene and homogenous Georgian polis, works to hide the fact that for most of Nash's time the place was a construction site, squabbled over by a set of bad-tempered competing interests: builders, architects and the city corporation itself.
The system they founded created a place where regional interests could be expressed, debated and voted on by the full representation of all the states in the union.
Both bills represent significant improvement on the flawed rules that we have in place today, despite the furious effort of industry lobbyists to shape this legislation to their special interests.
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For the first time in history, we put in place a consumer watchdog -- someone whose only job is to look out for the interests of everyday Americans.
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So if the banks are no longer capable of ensuring that managers act in shareholders' interests, what is there to take their place?
In last place: Facebook, likely because of the ongoing privacy issues keeping users concerned that FB might not have their best interests in mind.
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Because you come to a place like Indonesia, which is the largest Muslim population in the world, but people here have a lot of other interests, other than security -- that security is important, but I want to make sure that we are interacting with a wide range of people on a wide range of issues.
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