Interests
interests - benefits that people get from something
business interests - owning a part of a company with legal right to a share of its profits
not in the best interests of the firm
in your best interests
foreign interests
vested interests
conflict of interest
outside interests
defend interests
competing interests
short-term interests
long-term interests
conflicting interests
safeguard interests
acting in the public interest
have their best interests at heart
against his client's interests
threaten interests
financial interests
protect interests
business interests
powerful interests
commercial interests
legitimate interests
acquire business interests
overlapping business interests
consolidate business interests
represent business interests
the business interests of the nation
interfere with business interests
not in your best interests
activists challenging powerful financial interests
business interests in a politically privileged position
relationships between local government and business interests
agent handling your business interests
business interests in broadcasting
furtherance of business interests
capital used for the furtherance of your business interests
transferring his wealth and business interests to Paris
rooted in their common interests
in the interests of international capital
lawyers spend their lives working for business interests
legal knowledge is skewed towards protecting business interests
always represented big business interests
benefiting Japanese business interests
ninety per cent of his business interests tied in with Joey Bonanza's empire
advance her husband's business interests
provide security for the debts of the company to advance her husband's business interests
full democracy, one that embraced the interests and votes of all the citizens
non-equity minority interests
interests of shareholders
a threat to his interests
sovereign interests of a state
relinquish control of his business interests
extended his business interests to car thefts and burglary
longer-term institutional arrangements between business interests and local government
expanding my business interests and working almost every hour of the day
resignation over non-disclosure of business interests
dominated by powerful business interests
lobby on environmental issues for business interests
Example sentences:
* To let them know everything during the negotiations is not in your best interests.
* But changing entrenched ways of doing things and challenging powerful financial interests will be difficult, whatever the intentions of the government.
* The search for appropriate bodies through which business interests could be represented was not an easy one.
* Business interests are in a politically privileged position, to the extent that in any bargain struck between business and government, its terms will largely be dictated by business.
* There is some evidence that relationships between local government and business interests have become closer and more institutionalized.
* And who, my dear lady, is handling your business interests and why are you here in person on such an unladylike errand?
* Two years before the final fall of the Shah, he had begun transferring his wealth and business interests to Paris.
* This capital could be used for the furtherance of your main business interests.
* And ironically, in view of the Minister's remarks about business interests in broadcasting, the main beneficiary of this expenditure was the government run television station and the companies using it to advertise their products.
* Other headhunters, he has pointed out, have similar outside business interests.
* Mutual cooperation between banks and their larger customers is rooted in their common interests.
* Hence there are actors other than the state, and their precise role in international society depends on the interests of international capital.
* The vast bulk of lawyers spend their lives working for business interests, and top lawyers work overwhelmingly for giant corporations who alone can afford their fees.
* The whole pattern of development of legal knowledge is skewed towards protecting business interests.
* The company sold these activities off because they did not fit its core business interests.
* Aid has been correspondingly low, and although amounts have increased since the mid-1980s, much is still in loans and benefiting Japanese business interests.
* As head of the party which had always represented big business interests, he chose his cabinet mainly from the business world.
* I know that ninety per cent of your business interests are now tied in with Joey Bonanza's empire.
* She was being asked to provide security for the debts of the company in order, as the bank knew, to advance her husband's business interests.
* And perhaps they would be now were they in a full democracy, one that embraced the interests and votes of all the citizens.
* The amount attributed to non-equity minority interests and their associated finance cost should be calculated in the same manner as that for non-equity shares.
* Whether the interests of shareholders are the same as the interests of the workers, the company and the country is another matter.
* Strict enforcement of more severe legislation would attack the very root of capitalism… then any compromise between alternative policies and views is always struck within an area which does not threaten these interests.
* There are allegations that political interests blocked crucial evidence
* New work practices were introduced in the interests of improving efficiency at the firm
* There had to be prior scrutiny in each case of the particular facts, sovereign interests, and the likelihood that the Convention procedures would prove effective.
* The nuclear family is seen as a means for controlling the working class in the interests of capitalism.
* When the former impresario and agent assumed office as the opera's secretary general, he considered it would be only proper to relinquish control of his business interests.
* The company had acquired many business interests which overlapped the company's own businesses.
* He opened up various prostitute rings, and later extended his business interests to car thefts, burglary, the drugs market, and practised every con-trick he could dream up.
* Evidence of closer and longer-term institutional arrangements between business interests and local government at this time is far more limited.
* The MP's forthcoming resignation over non-disclosure of business interests will be annonced today.
* He also had business interests in Peru, including a cable television station based in the Amazon region, and held Peruvian and Canadian as well as Polish citizenship.
* The modern industrial city is one in which the central areas are dominated by powerful business interests.
* A new organization, the World Industry Council for the Environment (WICE), has been set up by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) to lobby on environmental issues for business interests.
