public interest

Example Sentences

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“So one of the things they certainly believe they want is to have this play out in the L.A. Times and to enlist public interest in it.”

From Los Angeles Times

Hamilton said the "practice of last-minute communication" by the Scottish government on cases relating to the Hamilton Inquiry "reflects poorly on the ministers and disrespects the applicant and wider Scottish public on a matter of significant public interest".

From BBC

“At the end of the day, a product isn’t recyclable if it doesn’t get recycled, and it isn’t compostable if it doesn’t get composted. Deception is never in the public interest,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times

Natanson did what journalists are supposed to do: cultivate sources, evaluate information and report facts of public interest.

From Salon

In a one-page order, Lamberth wrote that Revolution Wind was likely to succeed in underlying litigation, faced "irreparable harm" without an injunction, and the venture's request was "in the public interest."

From Barron's