Sentence examples for for the general interest from inspiring English sources

What now appears in Washington as a special-interest scrum could well become a triumph for the general interest.

And as Adam Smith wrote, beating Richard Dawkins to the punch by a few centuries, self-interest (the selfish gene?) can work for the general interest.

A chance to do some good for the general interest and regain the reputation of a productive public sector after thirty years of disparagement.

The training is the beginning of a process aiming at strengthening the capacity of local governments to develop policies which are responsive to local needs and problems and to local communities a representative governing structures that work for the general interest of the members and are accountable to their constituencies.

In the case of virtue, however, virtuous actions are those which it is "…for the general interest that they remain free".

As in all good agreements, therefore, the particular interests of the parties have been partially frustrated for the sake of the general interest, but the truth is that significant progress has been made in the area of breaks, daily and weekly breaks and weekly hours, as well as the establishment of more and stricter controls and penalties that are trans-national.

The first major change, insisted on by Rutledge, was meant to sharply curtail the essentially unlimited powers to legislate "in all cases for the general interests of the Union" that the Convention only two weeks earlier had agreed to grant the Congress.

My wife and I did not contact the press for personal reasons, but in the general interest.

Given the general interest for the level of development and the results achieved so far, the development of the Energy ADE and of the Utility Network ADE are converging, in order to slowly but progressively optimise and harmonise the respective data models.

If it is in the general interest for everyone to submit to the authority of a state that enforces laws that provide security, then this argument applies world-wide and justifies the establishment of a world-wide "republic of united individuals," not a plurality of states that find themselves in the state of nature vis-à-vis each other.

Like so many other modern thinkers, Hegel reserved the exercise of this capacity for a minority, a "universal estate" responsible for articulating the general interests of humankind.