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

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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
• There's a big difference between what interests the public and what's in the public interest.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 5 Sep. 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
• Before Rudakubana was named — an unusual step that the judge ruled was in the public interest — disinformation spread online claiming the assailant to be Muslim.
  — Varsha Patel, refinery29.com, 9 Aug. 2024
• 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
• His work in environmentalism alone is a testament to his career in the public interest and his concern for the human race globally.
  — Josh Mazer, Baltimore Sun, 29 July 2024
• This is an industry that has gotten very, very accustomed to not being regulated in the public interest.
  — Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 21 Aug. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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 ability to process information rapidly and use reasoning skills and judgement to make sound decisions in the national interest are essential, non-negotiable, aspects of the job.
  — Anand Kumar, STAT, 25 June 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

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024