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Example sentences for "direct interest"

  • It gives the bank a direct interest in the presidential and congressional elections: it gives it need for friends in Congress and in the presidential chair.

  • They had a direct interest in maintaining the public debt unpaid and increasing its amount, because this would produce an annual increased drain upon the Treasury to the amount of the interest and render augmented taxes necessary.

  • The United States have a direct interest in the question.

  • Education, on such a view, becomes a matter of national concern in which as a private individual the parent has no direct interest.

  • And since such knowledge can further no direct interest or end in life, its acquisition must, as a rule, be motived by some strong indirect interest.

  • In other words, the problem should involve matter in which the children have a direct interest.

  • The child also often applies himself to his tasks, not so much because he takes a direct interest in them, but because he wishes to gain the approval and avoid the censure of teacher and parents.

  • As opposed to the direct interest which an object may have for the mind, this transferred type is known as indirect interest.

  • We have, therefore, a direct interest in the restoration of peace.


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


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    direct action; direct assault; direct course; direct descendant; direct experience; direct line; direct object; direct perception; direct proof; direct proportion; direct ratio; direct result; direct vote; directed above; directed against; directed fire; directing them; direction contrary; direction parallel; directly proportional; even went; government should; industrial training; subsequent years; time came; will bear