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Example sentences for "common interest"

  • In addition to the commercial bonds between the East and the West there was growing up a common interest in manufactures.

  • They were knit together by the bonds of a common interest.

  • While elsewhere each Estate was caring for itself, here a common interest of all grew up, which bound them together for ever.

  • Evidence that public education is or is not a matter of common interest to the people of your community.

  • What are some of the things in which all the people of your city or village (or the one nearest to you) have a common interest, and which the city, or village, government helps to provide for?

  • What are some of the things in which your family and your nearest neighbors have a common interest because of living close together?

  • Even if some of the governments were influenced to a greater or lesser extent by selfish motives, they still recognized a common interest of the peoples of the world, a "cause of mankind," and based their appeals upon it.

  • In all cases where a majority are united by a common interest or passion, the rights of the minority are in danger.

  • The three large States have a common interest to bind them together in commerce.

  • They have there a common language, a common law, common usages and manners, and a common interest in being united; Yet their local jurisdictions destroy every tie.

  • At that time, however, and with regard to that object, in my opinion, Great Britain and France had a common interest.

  • And that Corporation never to divide more than Common Interest for that Sum: The Remainder of Profits accruing by that Trade be, for the better Maintenance of their Factories, and the Extending of their Trade in India.

  • If Common Interest be reduc'd to Four per Cent.

  • And for that Sum, the said Corporation may divide Common Interest, but never more.

  • Until the beginning of the third stage, each Member State shall treat its exchange rate policy as a matter of common interest.

  • This situation and the vicinity of the West India Islands, belonging to these two powers create between them, in respect to their American possessions and in relation to us, a common interest.

  • Under a vigorous national government, the natural strength and resources of the country, directed to a common interest, would baffle all the combinations of European jealousy to restrain our growth.

  • The primitive Church was pre-eminently a free society; and, with a view to united action, its members were taught to consult together respecting all matters of common interest.

  • These facts distinctly prove that they had a common interest in everything pertaining to the well-being of the whole Christian commonwealth; and that, like Paul, they were entrusted with "the care of all the churches.

  • It is, while it continues, a tie of common interest.

  • Now this can mean neither more nor less than that a common revenue is a common interest, and that all common interests tend to preserve the union of the States.

  • He gave the princes and ruling classes of India some inklings at least of a common interest.

  • They all had a common interest in the welfare of the state; they were all touched a little with the diffused kingship of the republic.

  • Now this can mean neither more nor less than, that a common revenue is a common interest, and that all common interests tend to preserve the union of the States.

  • Let us remind them that we are all embarked together, with a common interest and a common fate.

  • He went on to talk of real estate, and March began to feel a certain resentment at his continued avoidance of the only topic in which they could really have a common interest.

  • They remained talking so long, that March and the general had exhausted all the topics of common interest, and had even gone through those they did not care for.

  • We have a common interest in the preservation of good order.

  • We have a common interest in the preservation of a common country.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "common interest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


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