Sentence examples for hard interest from inspiring English sources

"What I never knew at the time is where he came down on the question of hard interest versus values".

The easy talk about helping Afghanistan stand on its own two feet does not square with the hard interest that each Western government has in financing not the Afghans, but its own national relief organizations.

For example, I started writing this article in November of last year before I had any hard interest from an investor.

She is the author of Asian States, Asian Bankers: Central Banking in Southeast Asia and Hard Interests, Soft Illusions: Southeast Asia and American Power.

Burned by the false promises of George W. Bush's administration in Iraq and the grinding turmoil of the region, Americans are looking for an explanation based on cold, hard interests.

To be sure, there are hard interests at stake -- gas pipelines and massive revenues.

The eastern states were seen as dominated by the "hard money" interest.

It's hard to interest reporters in complex issues when there's a simple, dramatic story to tell.

And lately, the Spanish government has been working hard to interest Americans in the glories of its sherries.

In this case, a ferociously anti-Islamic Copt named Morris Sadek labored hard to interest an Egyptian journalist in the movie; only then did the infernal cascade begin.

Germans felt a powerful idealistic desire to rehabilitate themselves in the European family of nations — and had a hard national interest in doing so.