Sentence examples for their local interests from inspiring English sources

They voted their local interests.

Rockland's citizens have not always defended their local interests so vigorously, and they say their county has suffered for that.

The local chiefs are holding on to their weapons in part to ensure that their local interests do not lose out in the formation of a new government.

This is disappointing because it reduces the ability of communities to hold the government and big business to account and to protect their local interests.

So while President Obama is intent on a national approach to revamping health care, members of Congress must also consider their local interests.

The idea is to take advantage of the group's highly decentralized structure by working to alienate its far-flung component parts, getting them to see their local interests as being at odds with Al Qaeda's global ones.

Under this hierarchical system, the power management of the central government relies on the chief ministers of individual states and thus is usually unable to control their local-interest-oriented behaviors, which are potentially harmful to the national power system as a whole.

Actions of individual counties, whether they are exporting or importing, are motivated by their own local interest, and they form the intricate pattern of the global food safety.

The resulting void was being filled during the late 16th and 17th centuries by the increasingly active and assertive territorial sejmiks, which provided a more accessible and direct forum for szlachta activists to promote their narrowly conceived local interests.

The problem is there are no European leaders, just a German chancellor, a French president, an Italian prime minister and others who profess a continental vision but never look much beyond their local political interests.

New Deal legislation is another example of expanding federal regulation overruling the state legislatures promoting their local state interests in coal, oil, corn and cotton.