Sentence examples for corporate privilege from inspiring English sources

The TPP would expand this harmful system of corporate privilege, offering broad new rights to thousands of corporations, including major polluters, when we should be reigning in the power of the fossil fuel industry to combat the climate crisis.

And in the European Union, where corporate privilege and market orthodoxy were embedded into treaty, the result was ruinous.

Instead of complaining, they need to be involved in the discussion and help people who need it, this is White corporate privilege flexing their muscle and being selfish.

But it is Romney's support for "ungoverned corporate privilege" that Whedon predicts will plunge the economy into "true insolvency and chaos".

It was about using the battering ram of state power to break the single greatest obstacle to the transformation of the economy in the interests of corporate privilege and wealth that Margaret Thatcher was determined to carry out.

Angry people, upset by the prospect of cuts for the poor and vulnerable in society, are rightly asking this question of what seems like a bastion of corporate privilege – the right not to pay the tax that the state should expect seems to be just that.

The Court did not rule that excise taxes consisted only of taxes on corporations and corporate privileges, to the exclusion of taxes on individuals (natural persons).

The Revolution gave added impetus to this criticism, in the form of an attack on all types of corporate privileges.

By terms of the capitulations of Riga and Revel (now Tallinn), Swedish sovereignty was ended and the provinces incorporated into the Russian Empire; the local German landed nobility and urban patriciate were confirmed in their historic corporate privileges.

Competition and choice are the market processes that bring long-term, broadly based benefits to the public, and political influence or favouritism constantly threaten to disable those processes.There is no single, big solution to campaign-finance abuse, interest-group influence or corporate privileges.

Russia's acquisition of Ingria and Livonia (and later of Kurland) brought into the empire a new national and political minority: the German elites urban bourgeoisie and landowning nobility with their corporate privileges, harsh exploitation of native (Estonian and Latvian) servile peasantry, and Western culture and administrative practices.