national interest
collocation in Englishmeaningsofnationalandinterest
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national
adjective
uk/ˈnæʃ.ən.əl/us/ˈnæʃ.ən.əl/
relating to or typical of a whole country and its people, rather than to part of that country or to ...
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interest
noun
uk/ˈɪn.trəst/us/ˈɪn.trɪst/
the feeling of wanting to give your attention to something or of wanting to be involved with and to discover more ...
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(Definition ofnationalandinterestfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofnational interest
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There is growing internationalinterestin the commercial use of genetic resources worldwide, especially those from the tropics.
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These discoveries fuelednationalinterestin child research and child care.
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What tasks in services, the performance of which may affect thenationalinterest, should be commercial and what retained as part of the state?
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Creditors also believed that party members placed partisan interests above what creditors saw as thenationalinterest.
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Also, 'nationalinterest' is a rather weak analytical tool.
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In such an environment, the argument that compliance is ' 'in ournationalinterest' ' will have greater weight than it will at earlier, more technical stages.
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The national government was thus unable to bring local governments in line with thenationalinterest.
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In short, we may feel bound to subordinate thenationalinterest, or common good, to our other duties, when deciding how to vote.
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By virtue of their governmental positions, they incur a responsibility to tend to the common good or thenationalinterest.
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As an intervention strategy to address adolescent problems, there has been significantnationalinterestin the supportive role of mentoring.
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Instead, the imperatives ofnationalinterestwon out time and again.
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The controversy naturally pushednationalinterestand sales figures even higher.
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We saw how the making of the border was influenced by calculations that often had little to do with communal or evennationalinterest.
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The subject ofnationalinterestmay provide part of the answer, but it is outside the scope of this article to pursue it further.
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During this period, youth were reconstructed in public discourse as a "threat" to thenationalinterest.
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It also invoked a curious doctrine of necessity, which allows the constitution to be overruled in thenationalinterest.
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In particular, the existence of a vibrant opposition, led bynationalinterestrather than sectarian ambitions, is critical for the success of the ongoing negotiations.
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These scholars took a realist view of international affairs : rational decision-makers were acting onnationalinterest.
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The nature of the law as a representation ofnationalinterestlimited its value in trade union eyes for achieving a workers' perspective.
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