Synonyms for Conflict of Interest
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1. conflict of interestnoun

   a situation in which a public official's decisions are influenced by the official's personal interests

   Synonyms:
   conflict of interest

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1. Ed Patru:

   If you accept the faulty premise that political contributions create a conflict of interest, then any amount is problematic, i don’t remember a single Democrat, citing conflicts of interest, recusing themselves from a vote on billionaires like Penny Pritzker.

2. Roger Marshall:

   According to your disclosure it looks like you received that [loan] at an interest rate of 6% but the going rate for a consumer loan was 11%, do you feel like that's some type of conflict of interest?

3. Ingo Speich:

   VW can only develop further if the conflict of interest between unions, Lower Saxony, the ruling families and independent shareholders is resolved.

4. Judge Thomas M. Goethals:

   In this case, the District Attorney's conflict of interest is not imaginary. It apparently stems from his loyalty to his law enforcement partners at the expense of his other constitutional and statutory obligations.

5. Tom Evans:

   At face value, the head of a national oil company is obviously facing a massive conflict of interest.