Sentence examples for supposed interest from inspiring English sources

Western double-standards in the supposed interest of Arab stability have proved a recipe for radicalization.

Hence its appeal to Rio Tinto.What of BHP Billiton's supposed interest in Alcoa?

It believes that may be more likely than Halliburton's supposed interest in US rival Baker Hughes.

Chelsea Manchester City's supposed interest in Didier Drogba was denied by both clubs yesterday after one of the striker's agents claimed to have opened talks with City.

Nor do I have any faith in a repressive regime whose nuclear ambitions and sponsorship of Hezbollah killers belies its supposed interest in resuming contact with the West.

There is particular outrage when Tories trample on tradition, as when the government of Edward Heath in the 1970s redrew county boundaries, and even abolished one or two ancient counties altogether, in the supposed interest of administrative efficiency.

But it is an argument that, if carried to its logical extreme, could easily provoke irreparable short-term damage in the supposed interests of long-term improvement.

"I suppose," my father reported an enraged Byron as saying to Channon, "I ought not to be surprised to see you betraying the interests of your adopted country in the supposed interests of your adopted class".

Peirce has no doubts that the Libyan, like the Conlons, was fitted up for a crime he did not commit by a British state prioritising its own supposed interests over justice.

For the U.N. to fulfill its mission, he said in his Nobel lecture, it must "focus, as never before, on improving the conditions of the individual men and women... whose claims to the most fundamental rights have too often been sacrificed in the supposed interests of the state or the nation".

The postwar book designer has two audiences — other designers, who applaud daring, witty "creative expression," and the bookstore browser, whose supposed interests are ever more zealously safeguarded in "a corporate environment where marketing analysts, editorial boards, and authors insist on significant participation in the design process".