Sentence examples for blinkered interest from inspiring English sources

Mr. Lissak said that the public would overwhelmingly support the treatment of Shas, because, although Shas presents itself as the guardian of the poor, it is viewed as a blinkered interest group, jealously protecting state subsidies for its constituency.

It will mark a new low in the US's blinkered pursuit of capital punishment.

However, it may not pay to revisit the subject following Alastair Darling's £100m olive branch loan but, if the money is being used to service Landsbanki's debt to the British public, then this is arguably just an extension of the blinkered self-interest already demonstrated so crudely by Gordon Brown.

Are teenagers really this blinkered in their interests and ambitions?

Obstacles remain in the road ahead – most notably, vested interests, blinkered ideology and political short-termism – but the IPCC has made it abundantly clear that the lack of available time means we must press on regardless and secure the rapid transition away from polluting fossil fuels and towards low-carbon, sustainable sources of energy.

But he's not so blinkered that he is unaware of the intense interest surrounding his every decision.

This is destructive and loudly clamouring scepticism born of vested interest, nimbyism, publicity seeking contraversialism or sheer blinkered, dogmatic, political bloody-mindedness," he added.

"This is destructive and loudly clamouring scepticism born of vested interest, nimbyism, publicity seeking contraversialism or sheer blinkered, dogmatic, political bloody-mindedness.

But there has been no parallel upsurge in interest in American studies, no new intellectual ferment in the blinkered, monochromatic universities and madrasas of the Arab and Muslim worlds since 9/11.

For these reasons, Unctad's heterodox way of approaching economics, which has persistently but unsuccessfully challenged the blinkered perspectives of the OECD, World Bank and other organisations in hock to western interests over many years, may finally have some success in the years to come.

But there was also a new generation which recognised the damage being done to Britain's real interests in the new world, and which was outraged by Eden's blinkered approach.