Collocations withinterest
These are words often used in combination withinterest.
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abiding interest
Questions of memory have been an abiding interest for the last several years.
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accumulated interest
This debt and its accumulated interest is deducted from the labourer's share of the harvest.
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avid interest
I shall read everything with avid interest and take up all the points which he suggested.
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best interest
As discussed earlier, the best interest standard exists to protect innocents from harm.
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breadth of interest
The degree of interest, but more importantly, the breadth of interest, continues to surprise me.
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clash of interest
Clearly, there is a clash of interest.
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commercial interest
This would have been particularly useful for a research area which is of such commercial interest.
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common interest
What are the prospects for a common interest movement that includes these and other social movement activists?
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commonality of interest
There is in this a commonality of interest.
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compelling interest
A bit of mild fun to get into the spirit of the place, but, for me, hardly of any lasting or compelling interest.
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compound of interest
The pathlength of the sample cell depends on the concentration of the compound of interest.
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concentrated interest
These may force political leaders to change policies against the grain of concentrated interest group preferences.
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conflict of interest
However, that seems obviously to be a nonstarter from a moral point of view because the situation involves an inherent conflict of interest.
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conflicting interest
In other words, individuals have a given interest, such as freedom of speech; the majority has a conflicting interest, to wit, violating freedom of speech.
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considerable interest
As a consequence, efforts to develop tick control strategies using tick semiochemicals in combination with acaricides have attracted considerable interest.
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continuing interest
There is therefore continuing interest and debate about whether organically grown products are superior to and/or different from conventionally produced alternatives and, if so, in terms of what characteristics.
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corporate interest
When looked at closely, talk of ethics is more often than not a cover for self- or corporate interest.
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declaration of interest
A formal declaration of interest will not be requested.
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declining interest
Then, a declining interest rate is expected to trigger an increase both in the capital/labor ratio and in effort.
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disparate interests
It is thus fair to ask how so many people with such disparate interests and training all find this common topic worth their attention?
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divergent interests
Given the divergent interests of computer equipment producers and telecoms equipment producers concerning trade liberalization, the equipment producers could not organise strong support for reform.
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economic interest
The main impetus for partisan change proves to be economic development, and a changing politics of economic interest.
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enduring interest
An enduring interest in comic books informs the artist's dynamic and obsessively detailed depictions of the people, objects, and stories that inhabit his world.
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entrenched interests
He provided the media with a human interest angle on politics: he was an approachable politician, an outsider who was battling against entrenched interests.
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exorbitant interest
Those who have made a nice living from speculation and exorbitant interest rates for years should now make a contribution.
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financial interest
The leading categories of financial interest held by panel members were research funding (42%), consultancies (22%), and speakers bureau (16%).
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genuine interest
Many factors, other than the genuine interest of villagers, can contribute to a high voting rate.
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governmental interest
Changes in public or governmental interest in nursing homes, and changes in governmental personnel were rarely seen as major obstacles.
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growing interest in
Among historians too, a growing interest in the history of space as a mental construction can be observed.
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in the interest of fairness
In the interest of fairness, guidelines should also clarify how to apply a contraindication consistently and accurately.
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in the interests of stability
That must be right in the interests of stability and continuity.
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in the interests of transparency
In the interests of transparency and honesty, the authors propose that the institution disclose to patients the incentives used to attract obstetricians to work at an underserved hospital.
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increased interest in
Currently, one notes an increased interest in context.
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increasing interest
Age-related cognitive changes in elderly persons have gained increasing interest and attention in the literature in the past number of years.
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insurable interest
It is called insurance, but there is no insurable interest.
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intense interest
Circle illustrated his intense interest in and sympathetic feeling for abstract art, which was dominant throughout his life.
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interest of conservation
It urged that the balance of the national interest of conservation and that of development should be properly determined by impact assessment.
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interest payment
There are two explanations for the high water price paid by output sharing buyers: a risk premium payment and an implicit interest payment.
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intrinsic interest
Leisure reading (that not required by school) was a good indicator of the level of intrinsic interest in reading in a particular language.
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keen interest
Of keen interest to the author are risks associated with mandatory individual accounts.
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lack of interest
The reasons for refusals were mainly lack of interest or time.
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legitimate interest
We will speak of everything and do so from the highest place we can reach - all in the legitimate interest of finding out the truth.
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lifelong interest in
His parents were keen gardeners, and implanted in him a lifelong interest in plant geography.
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long-standing interest
The bar associations have had a long-standing interest in promoting consumer rights + particularly consumers' standing to sue in civil cases.
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long-term interest
When lawyers are put on retainer, they are paid to take a long-term interest in their client's legal defense.
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longer-term interest
It is fair to tenants, who are themselves ratepayers, it makes economic sense and it is in the longer-term interest of the housing stock.
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morbid interest
It is not the punishment which attracts a great deal of attention or a great deal of morbid interest.
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mutual interest
Additionally, there was also a separate group, the members of which have a mutual interest in drugs and drug-related crime.
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narrow interest
Some of us would like to see a widening of interest in this respect rather than the narrow interest which we have at the moment.
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national interest
There is growing inter national interest in the commercial use of genetic resources worldwide, especially those from the tropics.
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nominal interest
The nominal interest rate is persistently high, and the aggregate endowment decreases over time with a trough after several quarters.
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obsessive interest
And these old southerners also conspired as a group to forestall any challenge to the southern segregation system, their obsessive interest.
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outside interest
Perhaps now there would be little outside interest in such a function.
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overriding interest
Practical examples from his work as a music therapist, with autistic children in particular, are used to illustrate his main themes, specifically his overriding interest in energy fields.
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ownership interest
That is his interest now, because he has no sort of ownership interest in the land.
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parochial interest
Another obstacle, which is a theme in your work, is the parochial interest of the private sector, of the financiers who are benefiting from volatility?
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particular interest
This is therefore an area of particular interest for the study of hybridization and speciation for these anisakids.
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partisan interest
So who truly spoke without partisan interest?
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passing interest
Yet he was also a mathematician and it is reasonable to assume that he took more than a passing interest in the structural aspects of his buildings.
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passionate interest
Interviewees, when talking about their study, referred to their often passionate interest in the subject as the key reason for studying for a qualification.
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pecuniary interest
Perhaps one person would drink one bottle of lemonade and his pecuniary interest might be the princely sum of 20p.
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personal interest
Regarding the former, we observed only one instance of a staff member taking personal interest in the resident's background.
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potential interest
Among hospitals without ethics committees, 72.9% indicated potential interest in a project that would provide technical assistance and training in the area of bioethics.
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powerful interest
They argue that powerful interest groups with political influence can block financial sector development.
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prevailing interest
What are the prevailing interest rates for a 10-year or 25-year term loan?
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primary interest
This yields an explanation of net behaviours in which causality is the primary interest.
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proprietary interest
The authors have no financial or proprietary interest in any product mentioned herein.
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raising interest rates
Raising interest rates and protecting the value of the dollar are policies that are beyond the domain of industrial relations, but they were nonetheless highly disruptive of union-management relations.
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renewed interest in
There is renewed interest in adopting heat treatments around the world as a viable insect control alternative to fumigation with methyl bromide.
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resurgence of interest
Interest in the impact of neighborhood conditions on child development and children's well-being is experiencing a resurgence of interest.
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revival of interest in
The article marks a postwar revival of interest in evolutionary narratives in psychiatry.
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romantic interest
The subject-matter, like the characters themselves, is condensed and rather claustrophobic, with little romantic interest and few clear character delineations beyond the two main protagonists.
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scholarly interest
During the past few years, there has been a growing scholarly interest in this phenomenon.
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selfish interest
They have no selfish interest.
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shared interest
The community is based on the shared interest in the circulation of wealth for the purpose of its preservation and expansion (p. 253).
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short-term interest
Modeling monetary policy in terms of a short-term interest rate is important for two reasons.
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sincere interest
I know of his deep and sincere interest in the matter.
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slight interest in
I ought perhaps to declare a slight interest in this matter.
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societal interest
Those who understand activities where societal interest must supersede privacy will need to come forward, explain the benefits, and answer the doubters.
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sphere of interest
The topic which we are debating today is one which falls directly within our citizens' sphere of interest.
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strategic interest
Countries would clearly have a strategic interest in estimates that improve their bargaining position.
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substantial interest
The book will also be of substantial interest to embryologists, geneticists and other researchers working in the field of fetal and cardiac development.
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sudden interest in
The dramatic increase in studies of clinical practice may not be due entirely to a sudden interest in outcomes of medical care.
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surge of interest
The recent surge of interest in harnessing computers for teaching suprasegmentals has lead to the development of a number of programmes.
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sustained interest
There are probably a number of reasons for the sustained interest.
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term of interest
The key term of interest in the utility function is since it shows to what extent an election outcome is factored into the social welfare calculations of incumbent politicians.
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upsurge of interest
There are various reasons for this upsurge of interest in the process of bilingual word recognition and the system that takes care of it.
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varied interest
I have a detailed and varied interest in hydrocarbon taxes—an interesting concept, developed over a number of years—which extends from my constituency responsibilities.
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varying interest
The remaining chapters are of lesser but varying interest to those whose primary work is in fluid mechanics.
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vital interest
That is something that is in the vital interest of both the rich and the poor.
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vocational interest
Can it be denied that in some degree he is a plural voter, and that his extra vote is based on his vocational interest?
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wide-ranging interest
These proposals have attracted keen and wide-ranging interest.
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