1.   This would act as a barrier against damaging developments such as road-building schemes, as individual departments would find it more difficult to override conservation interests.

2.   In the same spirit, Mandela acknowledged the fear of minority parties that their interests would be overridden by an impatient majority.

3.   Strong central governments control powerful and politicized bureaucracies that can override local interests, the judiciary and even private property rights.

4.   The report appears less than a week after Republicans vowed in their party platform not to let the United Nations override American interests.