Example sentences of "own interest " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is of course in our own interests . ’ |
| 2 | Thus when we present an article on structured programming electronics , a proportion of our readership will relate the subject to their own interests while an equally large cross-section will simple regard its inclusion as a displacement of their own preoccupation . |
| 3 | ‘ They have been ready to give priority to their own interests regardless of the effects on other unions and particularly on the Welsh Rugby Union . ’ |
| 4 | Evans-Pritchard 's ‘ Social Anthropology ’ devotes much attention to the Victorian anthropologists , Tylor and Frazer , then passes on to their critics , ‘ Durkheim and the Année Sociologique group of writers ’ , thus recapitulating Eliot 's own interests ; some ‘ features may be found to exist in all human societies , primitive and civilized alike ’ ; the paper relates anthropology to religious belief , ‘ with special reference to Catholic apologetics ’ . |
| 5 | Fieldhouse drives the point home when he argues that ‘ between 1945 and 1951 Britain exploited those dependencies that were politically unable to defend their own interests in more ways and with more serious consequences than at any time since overseas colonies were established ’ . |
| 6 | It was widely believed that if the individual was allowed to follow his own interests , within the law of the land , then general good would result . |
| 7 | ‘ We have to weigh the advantages and disadvantages of such an action , as well as our own interests . |
| 8 | The trouble is that directors involved in buying the company from existing shareholders clearly face a conflict between their own interests ( as buyers ) and their shareholders ' interests ( as sellers ) . |
| 9 | The old answer to sceptical Americans , trotted out by Europeans whenever transatlantic ties were strained in the past , is that the United States is in Europe defending its own interests , not just those of Europe . |
| 10 | America will win , it is thought , and win handily enough that it will not want to withdraw from Asia : so China , Japan , whoever , should pursue its own interests and wait for things to return to normal . |
| 11 | He realized that his own interests were not favoured at school by boys or masters : |
| 12 | He also knew that if Clasper was to be toppled from his influential position as plant convener — which was essential to the long term recovery of the plant — he would have to be seen to be toppled by his own members , acting in their own interests . |
| 13 | It is as if he is intent only on protecting his own interests . |
| 14 | I have , after all , my own interests at heart and I must recognise this . |
| 15 | As we have seen , the establishment of a habit can create a situation where a horse refuses to think — irrespective of how intelligent a horse may be , and even if solving the problem is in the horse 's own interests . |
| 16 | It is easy to assume that people were therefore pursuing their own interests , were unprincipled when they went about their politicking . |
| 17 | He is concerned the societies have acted fast to protect their own interests . |
| 18 | Mr Coulter said : ‘ It is becoming clear that building societies are pursuing their own interests by rescheduling loans or entering into shared ownership agreements , rather than biting the bullet of low interest loans to housing associations . ’ |
| 19 | Although subsequently repudiated by them , it was brought into being by the landlords , mainly from the early 19th century , to serve their own interests . |
| 20 | Rural institutions and local government in rural areas often tend to be dominated by a powerful and unrepresentative minority which represents its own interests rather than those of the majority . |
| 21 | He could hurt capriciously , pointlessly , even against his own interests … |
| 22 | But Charles was securing his own interests rather than those of the Pope , and proceeded with the marriage despite every threat and protest . |
| 23 | To protect the Lawyer faction , and his own interests , Hale then called up twenty cavalrymen under Captain George Currey . |
| 24 | It is all too easy for the Germans to accept the glib axiom that whatever is good for Germany is good for Europe , and the ‘ European ’ gloss may permit them to pursue their own interests while trying to convince others , and even perhaps convincing themselves , that they are doing this for Europe . |
| 25 | But it is in our own interests to act as if they were there . |
| 26 | There is a general rule that the holder may disclose information held in confidence if necessary to protect his own interests , and it may be that disclosure is justified if needed to protect someone from harm . |
| 27 | He may therefore order them to act against their own interests . |
| 28 | One such case is where the consent , if effective , will not affect third parties , provided that the agent is a normal adult able to judge his own interests in the area involved and that the same is true of the person receiving the right , assuming that he is able to refuse it if he so wishes . |
| 29 | Relying on the moral relevance of one 's consent and exaggerating its moral significance is all the more tempting when doing so serves one 's own interests . |
| 30 | ‘ You suggest that , as legislators , men disregard everything but their own interests . ’ |