How to Use in the national/public interest in a Sentence

in the national/public interest

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  • His supporters have said the leaks were in the public interest.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 24 June 2024
  • The release of these records demonstrates the power of dogged reporting done in the service of truth and in the public interest.
    — Miami Herald, Twin Cities, 7 Jan. 2024
  • The judge overseeing the case would then have to decide if ditching the agreement was in the public interest.
    — Bloomberg News, Hartford Courant, 25 Apr. 2024
  • To Hiatt, nothing about that is in the public interest.
    — Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Mark Kelly Can the United States government still act to solve problems and aid allies in the national interest?
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 3 Dec. 2023
  • Journalists, on the other hand, only report what’s in the public interest.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 12 July 2023
  • Polls show that as few as 13 percent of Italians believe Mr. Renzi is acting in the national interest.
    — New York Times, 19 Jan. 2021
  • More recently, YouTube allowed police body camera video from a school shooting to remain online, with the company stating that the video was in the public interest.
    — Jason Abbruzzese, NBC News, 8 May 2023
  • Money in that fund, which Hobbs and other governors have used for inauguration fundraising, must be spent in the public interest.
    — Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 18 Jan. 2024
  • When control of Congress and the White House is up for grabs in nearly every election, governing in the national interest becomes more difficult.
    — William A. Galston, WSJ, 25 May 2021
  • Given all the Navy’s other pressing priorities, spending hundreds of millions to get a mere dozen more years out of the broken Connecticut may not be in the national interest.
    — Craig Hooper, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021
  • The law carries a harsh penalty — 10 years per count — and defendants are forbidden to suggest that juries acquit by arguing that their disclosures were in the public interest.
    — Charlie Savage, New York Times, 18 June 2023
  • Senator Lieberman's love of God, his family, and America endured throughout his life of service in the public interest.
    — Washington Desk, NPR, 27 Mar. 2024
  • As research shows, pursuing unpopular wars can create a lot of public resistance to wars that are in the national interest.
    — TIME, 31 Jan. 2024
  • By then, the Biden administration had intervened in the Havlish litigation, invoking a law that permits it to step into lawsuits to inform the court what is in the national interest.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 12 Feb. 2022
  • Questions still swirl around this case that ignited something in the public interest so much that Netflix even created a follow-up series in 2018 to detail further developments in the case.
    — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Dovish leaders, by contrast, have a hard time convincing a domestic audience that their peaceful policies are in the national interest.
    — Elizabeth N. Saunders, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
  • In a poll released by Quinnipiac on Tuesday, nearly two-thirds of voters said supporting Ukraine was in the national interest, and more than three-quarters felt that way about supporting Israel.
    — Jack Healy, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2023
  • But the rules defining what’s in the public interest are vague, according to tax experts; for example, Congress has never defined how many hours a museum would need to be open to be considered accessible to the public.
    — Jeff Ernsthausen, ProPublica, 26 July 2023
  • But opposition lawmaker Yoon Kun-young, who served as Moon’s situation room chief, defended the move as being legal and in the national interest.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 13 July 2022
  • Exceptions apply only when the patient explicitly consents to the disclosure, if it’s required by law, or if the disclosure can be justified in the public interest.
    — Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Rare-book dealers will tell you that private collections involve less red tape than institutions—bureaucratic hurdles to access that aren’t in the public interest.
    — Francesca Mancino, The Atlantic, 2 May 2024
  • The failure to support actions that are widely supported by the public and manifestly in the public interest would have its own costs, though, especially for those Republicans in swing districts.
    — Norman J. Ornstein, The New Republic, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Since colleges receive tax benefits and donations are tax exempt, some advocates argue that colleges need to act in the public interest or risk losing those benefits.
    — Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Investors and shareholders may prefer this outcome, but politicians and citizens should be under no illusion that private AI companies will act in the public interest.
    — Marietje Schaake, Foreign Affairs, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The fact that his saga ends with a plea deal means those questions are not being fully litigated in court, and, therefore, other whistleblowers and publishers could still be punished for revealing information in the public interest.
    — Ellen Ioanes, Vox, 25 June 2024
  • The report noted that avoiding future transition disruptions was in the national interest.
    — Editorial Board Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 13 Nov. 2020
  • Special counsels are appointed in cases in which the Justice Department perceives itself as having a conflict or where it’s deemed to be in the public interest to have someone outside the government come in and take responsibility for a matter.
    — Meg Kinnard, Chicago Tribune, 28 July 2023
  • Special counsels are appointed in cases in which the Justice Department perceives itself as having a conflict or where it's deemed to be in the public interest to have someone outside the government come in and take responsibility for a matter.
    — Arkansas Online, 9 June 2023
  • Special counsels are typically appointed to investigate cases where the Justice Department perceives itself as having a conflict or where it’s deemed to be in the public interest.
    — Lindsay Whitehurst and Lisa Mascaro, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2023

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