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    vested


    1. You might have switched jobs too often to try and accumulate a healthy vested retirement nest egg


    2. Take away the vested interest and you are left with the ability to truly hear


    3. ‘Leave me out if it, Dave, I have a vested interest in keeping her on my side


    4. of protecting our vested interests


    5. vested interest in one of them - but which one, and what


    6. who have a vested interest in perpetuating the fear


    7. should they, when they have no vested interest in you other than being


    8. When the Dutch, in the beginning of the last century, began to encroach upon them, they vested their whole East India commerce in an exclusive company


    9. Clearly, you are not the only one with vested interest in seeing both her and her brother restored to their family unharmed


    10. Conversely, people who make huge donations without a vested interest i

    11. But it’s worth remembering the vested interests


    12. 44), not only Senegal and its dependencies, but the whole coast, from the port of Sallee, in South Barbary, to Cape Rouge, was exempted from the jurisdiction of that company, was vested in the crown, and the trade to it declared free to all his majesty's subjects


    13. Their affairs continued to go gradually to decline, till at last, being in every respect a bankrupt company, they were dissolved by act of parliament, and their forts and garrisons vested in the present regulated company of merchants trading to Africa


    14. By a negligence in the expression of the act of parliament, which vested the East India trade in the subscribers to this loan of two millions, it did not appear evident that they were all obliged to unite into a joint stock


    15. Authority is vested in you to make acting appointments to fill any vacancies which may occur


    16. No vested choir stood ready to march triumphantly chanting into the


    17. disproportionately in relation to its vested interests and (the) concerns of majority opinion, throw their weight around


    18. The American People have historically supported the argument that in the event of a national or catastrophic emergency, the Office of the Presidency should be vested with unusual or extraordinary powers or, in time of war, (―unlimited‖) wartime powers, in order to facilitate effective leadership unencumbered by political (party) partisanship


    19. ‖ Cold-Blooded as this may sound, parents have a vested interest in the future success of their children; especially parents who have dedicated a great deal of time, emotional capital and… money, on their children‘s spiritual, moral and intellectual development


    20. Our Creator has a vested ―interest‖ in His Creation for whose (spiritual) well-being He has not left nothing owing to Chance; for creation remains, in its fullest measure, an extension of the creator, encompassing all that is considered good, for no one willingly creates something that he or she would otherwise consider unworthy of his or her (creative) efforts or without some (ultimate) purpose in mind

    21. A ―probable‖ law is probable inasmuch as it remains subject to ―proof;‖ that is to say, until it is validated by common practices and/or legal interpretations by legal authorities consisting of nonelected men and women appointed to our nation‘s highest courts who remain unaccountable to the American People; subject to contingent legalities that directly affect them and whose ―definitive‖ arguments are (oftentimes) subject to change as the ideological alignment of the courts may vary thereby overriding legislative authority vested by the people to sanction laws by rendering elastic, interpretations of (uncertain) legal propositions and subsequent laws of the land, thereby setting themselves up in a uncertain manner as supreme arbiters of the law


    22. Such impressions, (oftentimes) guided by (opportunistic) political and social ―leaders‖ harboring a vested interest in maintaining the status quo in order to consolidate their political power base by forging racial alliances designed to sever popular accord, are unlikely to change anytime soon in the absence of alternative, more creditable viewpoints


    23. Modern Society is in the throes of a revolutionary Revolt of Conscience; the solitary by-product of moral and intellectual parochialism that is gradually revealing itself in the vested self-interest(s) and manners of unbridled Individualism that has undermined equalitarian idealism, that once defined the national culture, by rendering every individual the sole arbiter of his or her own conscience and ensuing choices without giving proper pause to how such choices may otherwise impact, for better or for worse, other individuals or to a transcendent authority that each must (inevitably) be held accountable; that is to say, whose (social) consequences existing outside the provincial boundaries of that individual‘s (own) estate are no longer limited by (moral) restraint or prescribed rules of moral and ethical conduct but conditioned rather by circumventing designs contrary to the proportionate interests of a well-ordered society


    24. Sophisticated Americans, or those who fancy themselves as such, may oftentimes try to imitate or adopt European manners without quite succeeding in pulling it off; much in the manner of a saloon girl vested in all the gaudy trimmings feigning respectability at the opera house!


    25. I am not convinced, however, that the party‘s (so-called) failure was due entirely to an absence of Will, although some Republicans have arguably abandoned the good fight over ―divisive‖ issues that many perceive might otherwise jeopardize their political standing among moderate or left-leaning voters, but rather to a concentration of judicial/political power vested in our nation‘s courts and among its political supporters who, until quite recently, enjoyed large majorities in both Houses of Congress


    26. Such individuals will always be tempted, as some of us are, by the underlying current(s) vested in political power


    27. Teams vested up


    28. Besides, it terrorizes the citizens with high duties tributary, high interests and diversity of laws that suppress vested rights with inhospitable economic actions as justification of stabilizing the economy or fear of international economic retaliation


    29. 44 million inhabitants, it also generates the income that puts an end to vicious cycle of poverty and of the social abandonment, turning the sovereign and independent country, without hurting vested rights


    30. It benefits all, it preserves the vested rights and it attends the necessities in quality and sufficiency of resources in a definitive way, without excluding absolutely anybody (seniors, children, adults, people with physical deficiencies, sick persons and others)

    31. The church must formulate a new bible, comprised of her own liturgy, faith confessions and convictions, written by her preachers and prophets, politically and socially correct with its fundamental base vested in the protection of human rights, choices and free will


    32. Always seek out independent opinions that are divorced from vested interests


    33. It is vital to engage an independent party free of vested interest; with consultants remember to


    34. do they have a vested interest in helping you become a success—give you the very best money making tools


    35. ” What Lomborg has revealed, Ridley concludes, is “a narrow but lucrative industry of environmental fund-raising that has a vested interest in claims of alarmism


    36. Or do they dread being judged racists, bigots, or homophobes if they insist on objectivity in reporting news that might offend vested interests intolerant of criticism? Or, Seligman wonders, are the top editors simply fearful of standing up to “the new militants in the newsroom?” McGowen’s book, says Seligman, leaves the impression that media managers are


    37. It means you have no vested in-


    38. It is only when you have a vested interest


    39. Section 1: All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate


    40. It states that all powers not vested to the Federal Government is reserved for the States and their citizens

    41. executive power was vested in two consuls, who were elected by the Comitia Centuriata every year


    42. 5 In a utopia, there will be no impetus to innovate; on the contrary, vested interests will exert a strong and continuous force in favor of the status quo


    43. The power is vested in the office of the ruler, to be used or abused at his will


    44. He was a middle-aged man with twenty years vested in crime fighting, and he was married to being a detective—to being the best detective on the force


    45. Aleator wouldn’t get involved, not because the Harbinger was too powerful to deal with—which it was, but because someone on the station had a vested interest in Raidan’s welfare, or more likely, Raidan’s money


    46. You will learn that these Controlling Artists have a vested interest in trying to control you, for in this manner they can maximise the volume of life's pleasures which come their way


    47. This is simply holding an opinion because you have a vested interest in the outcome and not because you believe it to be true


    48. The Initiate knows that many laws are sensible, many are simply there to protect the status quo or the vested interests of powerful people, and yet others are simply outdated, stupid or irrelevant


    49. In this case, the payoff is more complex: i) In the case of the government, they have a vested interest in keeping as many tame, drug-free, consumer/producers in the system as possible


    50. He had a vested interest in some ways as he was attracted to Michael’s mother and took every opportunity to make contact with her











































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    "vested" definitions

    fixed and absolute and without contingency