Example sentences of "[art] good interests [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Quite naturally , therefore , each Arab government was guided by its own considerations rather than the best interests of the refugees .
2 Although this leads to productive links with other agencies and services , it can not be in the best interests of the students .
3 In any large firm the managers have considerable scope for indulging in actions which may not be in the best interests of the owners , or for allowing their subordinates a freer rein than might be in the owners ' interests .
4 This is not going to help them do that ; it 's not in the best interests of the parents , or of justice . ’
5 I am sure you will agree that it is in the best interests of the traditions of our society that there should be these circumspect checks and controls on what a public authority is permitted to do to interfere in the private lives of individuals , but at the same time it does make it difficult to act promptly and , in certain cases , and this must be one of them , one can only regret the outcome . ’
6 This means that directors are under a duty to act in the best interests of the shareholders .
7 Secondly , directors are treated as fiduciaries required to act in the best interests of the shareholders .
8 Former BAe executive Richard Hooke says he has been told Board of Trade President Michael Heseltine is also looking at the deal , along with Welsh Secretary John Redwood and Employment Secretary David Hunt to see if it is in the best interests of the shareholders and taxpayers .
9 Mr Hooke says he has been told that Board of Trade President Michael Heseltine is also looking at the deal , along with Welsh Secretary John Redwood and Employment Secretary David Hunt to see if it is in the best interests of the shareholders and taxpayers .
10 In the opinion of the Committee , Mr. Philip Kirkwood has the best interests of the Residents at heart , and does his utmost to administer the funds available for the maintenance and general well-being of the Village , fairly and impartially .
11 The Council should emulate its predecessors and , without political prejudice , serve the best interests of the communities under their charge , and take the following action .
12 The investigation of provision of quality education and options for the future by the school community itself has led the community to see the need to close schools and to amalgamate , in the best interests of the pupils . )
13 ( e ) Conflicts of interest Where firms involved in an amalgamation have previously acted for clients who have been involved in litigation against each other , the amalgamated firm must not accept instructions to act for any of those clients unless they are able to erect and maintain effective " Chinese Walls " and : ( 1 ) none of the solicitors involved are professionally embarrassed by continuing to act ; ( 2 ) all the clients have given their consent ; ( 3 ) those clients have received full and frank independent advice before giving their consent ; and ( 4 ) such continuing to act can be shown to be in the best interests of the clients .
14 It is , however , in the best interests of the partners if the partnership is commenced in this way , since the document agreed upon by the partners will make provision for most eventualities which may affect the partnership .
15 The concerns that have been expressed outside the park committees need to be fully voiced within them if the committees are to decide in the best interests of the parks and their purposes , and if they are to be seen to do so .
16 A very strong impression , even now , is of a lack of diversity in the planning and delivery of activities in ways that may not be in the best interests of the children .
17 How could they say , as they all did , frequently and sanctimoniously , that everything they had done was in the best interests of the children ?
18 How could the best interests of the children be served by tearing them from their beds and flying them away from their island home to be completely separated from everything dear and familiar .
19 Paul Lee , Orkney 's Social Work Director , consistently said that what had been done was in the best interests of the children .
20 At no time could the department justify why they had not allowed a rabbi to visit the two Jewish children in the mainland foster homes , or permitted Quakers to visit the two Quaker children , Can all these refusals really have been in the best interests of the children ?
21 Not to do so means that they are not truly working in the best interests of the children .
22 Councillor Mrs Mairhi Trickett continued to insist that everything they had done was in the best interests of the children .
23 ‘ I know , ’ he stressed ‘ that within the rules of the Children 's Hearing , that the best interests of the children have been weighed , and on the balance of probabilities , the appropriate action was the right action .
24 It is a system where an independent panel takes the decisions , considering the best interests of the children .
25 In his petition , the Reporter claimed the move to the mainland would be in the best interests of the children .
26 Committee Chairman Helen Martini , however , said that if any such decision was really in the best interests of the children , they would happily go along with it .
27 The Curators , with no other concerns in the matter , were truly speaking in the best interests of the children .
28 He stuck rigidly to his statement that what had been done was absolutely essential in the best interests of the children .
29 It was , they considered , all in the best interests of the children .
30 The local authority appealed against the orders and sought an interim care order on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had erred in law when they had made the order preventing the parents from having contact with each other as contact between adults was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibilities towards his child and thus fell outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; ( 2 ) there had been no application for a section 8 order and before exercising powers under section 10(1) ( b ) of the Act of 1989 the justices should have invited the parties to make representations , and the failure to do so was a material irregularity ; ( 3 ) the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact and there were grounds for believing that the children would suffer harm , had been plainly wrong in refusing to make the interim care order in respect of both children in that they had failed to have regard to the facts that both parents had colluded over injuries to D. , the mother had lied when she had stated that there had been no contact with the father , the father had been in breach of a bail order there had been a violent incident on 23 November 1991 which had involved both parents , the mother had refused to be accommodated with the children in a mother and baby home , and the mother had changed her mind about the adoption of R. ; and ( 4 ) in all the circumstances the order which would have been in the best interests of the children and which the justices should have made was an interim care order .
  Next page