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Example sentences for "private interests"

  • This has been done both by private interests and by the government.

  • Another group of conservation proposals, which have not yet been put into substantial effect, are obviously beyond the power of private interests; and must be introduced, if at all, by the application of government power.

  • An illustration of the limiting effect of the interest rate on the acquirement of long-lived coal deposits by private interests is discussed in Chapter XVII on Conservation.

  • The general government did not interfere--except when, as in the case of the Pacific lines, its interference and assistance were solicited by private interests.

  • We shall no longer have peculiar views, private interests, or natural inclinations to clash with the will and interests of God.

  • But it is far from being perfect, because our feelings, private interests, and passions warp our judgments, and even reverse them after we have pronounced a just sentence.

  • When a command is imposed upon us which does not chime in with our wishes, private interests, views, or natural inclination, we not unfrequently must drag ourselves by main force to perform what is commanded.

  • But it was even more notable for the new standard which it set for the relationship in which the executive of a great State should stand to his office, to the public welfare, to private interests, and to the leaders of his party.

  • The development of a sound and enlightened forest policy naturally led to the consideration of a similar policy for dealing with the water power of the country which had hitherto gone to waste or was in the hands of private interests.

  • The only obstacle to the prompt enactment of the bill was the undue insistence upon State Rights by certain Congressmen, "who consistently fought for local and private interests as against the interests of the people as a whole.

  • The incumbent became an officer with a view to public benefits, and when these require his removal they are not to be sacrificed to private interests.

  • This is important not only for State revenue, but as a recognition of the principle that what belongs to the people should not be absolutely surrendered to private interests.

  • It is scarcely more satisfactory to leave all the education of public opinion to commercial control than to leave all elementary education to private interests.

  • Problem of Control of Private Interests by Law.

  • The multiplication of private interests is a measure of social progress: it marks the multiplication of the sources and ingredients of happiness.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    clear soup; counter attack; private audience; private citizens; private collection; private collections; private companies; private corporation; private enterprise; private estate; private house; private individuals; private letter; private letters; private library; private matter; private office; private ownership; private papers; private parties; private secretary; private soldier; private tutor; private wealth; spread over; take root