Conferring a benefit on private interests is a non-exempt purpose.
When a prime minister attacks his country's magistrates as part of a left-wing conspiracy, passes laws that benefit his own interests and issues repeated amnesties for people who have evaded taxes and ignored planning controls, he sends a message to the average citizen: do not bother to obey the rules.
Obama enjoys great support from the financial interests that benefit from government debt and expansive public largesse.
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Whatever his instincts, Bashar has to deal with powerful security and political interests that benefit from the status quo and have mindsets firmly rooted in the past.
Still, "people who hold other people's money must manage for the other people's benefit and may not have interests that conflict with theirs, " she adds.
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They argue that since EU countries have been evading their own arms embargo with increasing effect, U.S. interests will actually benefit if the embargo is replaced by an improved European code of conduct for arms sales.
Numerous brand-name and generic drugmakers and their respective trade groups say the settlements protect their interests but also benefit consumers by bringing inexpensive copycat medicines to market years earlier than they would arrive in any case generic drugmakers took to trial and lost.
Find common interests and share information that can benefit others in your circle.
Like it or not, government is the only institution powerful enough to realign the risk-benefit ratio so that the people's interests are at least borne in mind.
"One of the big things that I hope to achieve in this project was to show that public and private interests could work together for mutual benefit, " Shuttleworth said.
Limitations of liability may benefit actuaries but they are never, ever in the best interests of pensions.
The central ethical tension in all research involving humans, in America as elsewhere, is a conflict between the best interests of the subject and the gain in knowledge that will benefit later generations.
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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Pros: the greatest benefit of hiring a programmer as a full-time employee is alignment of interests.
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Rupert Steele from Scottish Power said tariffs are "significantly simpler than most people think" but they can get complicated with discounts and benefit schemes and he said he didn't think it was in customers interests to withdraw these deals.
Here, the NFL renegotiated the broadcast contracts to benefit its exclusive interest at the expense of, and contrary to, the joint interests of the NFL and the Players.
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The land consolidation program will provide individual Indians with an opportunity to consolidate and transfer divided ownership interests to their tribal governments, where they will remain in trust for the benefit of tribal communities.
"I now feel that in the interests of everybody concerned, in particular the young people of Kent who I feel benefit enormously from the role of a youth commissioner, that I should stand down, " she said.
Federalism and direct democracy, as well as respect and consideration for the interests of minorities and small cantons, are valuable concepts developed by Switzerland and used to the benefit of its people.
We also reiterated that I will work with our European colleagues for the benefit of the European Union -- a union of 500 million people, which is so important in the interests of this connection with the United States and the bigger world outside.
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