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
• That’s not the same as being in the public interest, however.
  — Sandy Carter, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
• In turn, they are required by law to operate in the public interest.
  — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 19 Nov. 2024
• Your stories will help our team identify the root causes of the issues and do journalism in the public interest.
  — Eleanor Klibanoff, ProPublica, 26 Sep. 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
• Understanding what drove him is in the public interest.
  — Zac Anderson, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2024
• 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
• But an exchange of bullets on a crowded train isn’t in the public interest, and the government has a basic interest in making transportation safe.
  — Noah Feldman, The Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2024
• Were there circumstances in which the government’s zeal for secrecy could be overridden in the public interest?
  — Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Critics also argue that the system limits states’ ability to regulate in the public interest.
  — John Quinn, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
• These diverse and mostly uncoordinated actions, grounded strongly in the national interest of each country, are likely to have an impact greater than the sum of their parts.
  — Sarang Shidore, Foreign Affairs, 31 Aug. 2023
• 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

Last Updated: 21 Jan 2025