Sentence examples for served narrow from inspiring English sources

Officials said the advisory committees would be unlikely to approve purchases or projects that served narrow interests.

Harris's work also provides an understanding of modernism that extends beyond narratives centered on little magazines and other "institutions of modernism" that served narrow audiences.

The M&GR was unpopular with local people and mine owners who saw it as a would-be monopolist that served narrow commercial interests rather than the wider public good.

As a result, we received a substantial number of applications from organizations that might otherwise not have applied, because they served narrower populations.

"Our economy is in danger of becoming the latter, monopolised by a minority, serving narrow and sectional interests".

Many existing regulations should be changed, as they were originally designed to serve narrow interests and/or have outlived their usefulness.

Many citizens believe that their leaders are choosing public policies that serve narrow interests rather than broad ones, or that policies have been designed or implemented poorly.

Sarah Williams Goldhagen is right to point to the "the weakness, and often absence, of... urban planning offices and professional, institutionalized design review boards" as contributing to American historic preservation efforts that serve narrow political or development interests.

At the same time we have to overcome the current stalemate where EU-Russia contacts are frozen, but member states continue developing bilateral channels with Russia, often serving narrow national interests.

For some political scientists and, of course, most economists, it is vexing that people vote at all, because of course everyone knows a single vote can't change the course of history or even serve narrow self-interest.

The offer -- which came as the ink was still wet on the agreement by Exxon to acquire Mobil in a record $80 billion takeover, creating the world's largest oil company -- was seen as the first step in a consolidation of the European oil industry, which has been characterized in large part by national companies serving narrow domestic markets.