Sentence examples for peripheral interests from inspiring English sources

Additionally, military force is also a surprisingly poor tool for shaping the behavior of other countries, except when only their peripheral interests are involved.

Vietnam confused vital and peripheral interests.

Ukraine is at best of peripheral interests to the West, yet actions taken by the West have seriously harmed Russia's core interests.

An inability to differentiate between vital and peripheral interests, and the threats to them, is the first step to overreach and strategic exhaustion, as Eisenhower cautioned, destroying the thing he swore to defend.

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

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

By Tuesday, all this was of only peripheral interest to those people attending the party, who glommed onto anyone with a Sixpoint affiliation to offer their compliments.

His residual 11percentnt stake in Diageo - the combine formed from the GrandMet-Guinness merger - is now of only peripheral interest to LVMH but could still come in handy.

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.

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.

Anderson's quest for his 300th Test wicket may be of only peripheral interest compared to the state of the match and the immense curiosity there will certainly be about the man who is not there.