Sentence examples for interests count from inspiring English sources

Personal relationships and local business and political interests count for much.

In Michel's own words: "Only the Belgian and European interests count for me now – not the British ones.

Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause New York, a government watchdog group, faults the political class for "not creating an atmosphere and a message to the voters that their convenience and their interests count".

She loses herself in moral dilemmas, not being able firmly to assert herself or let her interests count, but always places the needs of others first.

Across this small, crowded, bloodthirsty continent, ruled by despots and riven by poverty and political turmoil, just whose interests counted?

Todd DeStefano will also have to pay $500,000 to the Coliseum Commission after pleading no contest to one felony conflict-of-interest count.

But instead of celebrating the return of the Rams, the disgraced ex-manager, now 43, is facing  six months in jail after pleading no contest to one felony conflict-of-interest count in what prosecutors have described as a wide-ranging corruption scandal.

On Thursday, a judge sentenced DeStefano to six months behind bars, placed him on three years of supervised probation and ordered him to pay $500,000 to the Coliseum Commission as part of a deal with prosecutors in which he pleaded no contest to one felony conflict-of-interest count.

Politicians and media owners increasingly struck mutually beneficial deals in which the public interest counted for considerably less than the interests of the contracting parties.

Economists agree that it also gives companies an incentive to issue debt -- with the interest counting as a pretax cost -- rather than equity.

Under utilitarian theories, in their classical form, this preference or interest counts like any other in determining the best distribution.