Sentence examples for vulnerable to conflicts from inspiring English sources
New evidence suggests that the way US water is tested for lead is vulnerable to conflicts of interest that raise questions about data confirming tap water's safety.
Experts are as vulnerable to conflicts of interest as researchers are, the authors warned, because "expert clinicians are also those who are likely to receive honoraria, speakers bureau [fees], consulting fees or research support from industry".
Yet the group's broad geographic scope means that it is exposed to every local difficulty as well as any global trouble, while its wide range of products and services makes it particularly vulnerable to conflicts of interest.
But not all models for paying rating agencies are equally risky, says a former Moody's managing director, Jerome S. Fons — and none is more vulnerable to conflicts of interest than the issuer-pays model.
Still, some advocates for consumers worry that the House-approved advice bill leaves investors vulnerable to conflicts of interest if financial services firms that manage 401 k)'s are also allowed to promote their own products.
Before leaving New York on Wednesday, Ms. Quinn and the Council unveiled a series of changes to the Council's budget practices to make the system more open and less vulnerable to conflicts of interest.
"Interaction among the powerful is vulnerable to conflict and miscommunication which undermines their collective performance," he said.
She said finding appropriate commissioners to run the inquiry would be "problematic", given most people with the expertise (such as former bankers) would be vulnerable to conflict of interest claims.
This response, of course, makes Replacement Naturalism vulnerable to conflicting intuitions about the fruitfulness or sterility of different kinds of theorizing.
FFP does not delineate fragile and stable states, but rather considers those with an aggregate score greater than 90 to have "alert" status, defined as vulnerable to conflict or collapse.
Pakistan is both vulnerable to the conflicts on its borders and guilty of stirring them up.
