NOUN
- groups that seek to control a social system or activity from which they derive private benefit
- (law) an interest in which there is a fixed right to present or future enjoyment and that can be conveyed to another
How To Use vested interest In A Sentence
- So intense has been the heat generated by the vested interests opposing the denationalization of these two institutions that the matter has still not been sorted out.
- The bureaucrats and political executive at the state level, have a vested interest to centralise powers and authority and their hostility to evolve a genuine system of democratic decentralisation is well known.
- The public had seen ‘nothing more than a self-serving determination to protect their vested interests’.
- Other chapters, conversely, are likely to be concluded or closed only at the last minute since they touch upon core vested interests of current and aspirant member states.
- The left is always warning us about the cynical vested interests of the military industrial complex allegedly manipulating public policy for their sectional gain.
- The persistent critic, therefore, has a vested interest in fault-finding.
- Third, the Palestinian state must remain demilitarized, not only to satisfy Israel's requirements but also to conserve financial resources to enable investments in the infrastructure of the state, thereby increasing the vested interests in maintaining peace. Alon Ben-Meir: Reconciling Israel's Security With Palestinian Statehood
- The Dharma Shastras are smritis, written by men who had vested interests and enforced as laws.
- Yes, he has a vested interest representing the legal trade but he also represents victims. Times, Sunday Times
- The Government should not succumb to pressure by vested interests and should make speed governors for vehicles compulsory, at the earliest.
