Sentence examples for supposed interests from inspiring English sources

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.

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".

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 basis of that discrimination -- the classification of individuals into large and small families -- is too [p530] arbitrary and too unconnected to the asserted rationale, the impact on those discriminated against -- the denial of even a subsistence existence -- too great, and the supposed interests served too contrived and attenuated to meet the requirements of the Constitution.

To date, nothing has come of Cerberus's supposed interest.

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.