dominant interest
Example Sentences
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The prevention of future attacks remains our dominant interest, if not our only compelling one there.
From Slate • May 11, 2017
When he acquired a dominant interest last June in the venerable firm of Price Bros.,
From Time Magazine Archive
Their daughter followed suit by eloping with the young Earl of Jersey, and ever since the family has had a dominant interest in Child & Co.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus these large investors could gain a dominant interest in smaller firms, a situation many corporate managers want to avoid.
From Time Magazine Archive
The French epic poetry is not all of it made sublime by the ideas of Roland; there is still scope for the free representation of life in different moods, with character as the dominant interest.
From Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature by Ker, W. P.
