Sentence examples for a peripheral interest from inspiring English sources

The F.B.I. also took a peripheral interest in a book club because Lewis was involved with it.

Outside the sports arena, observers came to perceive FIFA as a moneymaking venture with merely a peripheral interest in the welfare of the game itself.

England's win in 2005 was celebrated by the nation, even by those with only a peripheral interest, for England had overcome one of the finest of all teams.

This business of looking manly even developed its own theoretical rationale, the concept of "credibility": if we are willing to act violently in pursuit of a peripheral interest, everyone can be certain that, when a vital interest is at stake, we will be still more violent.

This may all seem like a bit of antiquarian curiosity, especially for people whose lives don't depend on the Bible or even people of faith for whom biblical matters are a peripheral interest at best.

For example, our original network contained a start node for a small hobby-based club with only a peripheral interest in environmental issues.

"End," to Obama, will mean a residual force of 10,000 troops for at least three and possibly ten years, to include drone strikes across the border in Pakistan, which is the real and unspoken rationale for remaining in an area of peripheral interest to Washington.

The United States didn't need another war in a country of only peripheral interest.

Washington has no more reason to court war with Moscow over Ukraine, which is viewed as a vital rather than peripheral interest by Russia.

Social media may be all the buzz, but in reality "only a few firms get it [and use it], it's of peripheral interest for most", says Tom Austin at technology consultancy Gartner.

But these, for the most part, are unpersuasive concerns, of minority or peripheral interest.