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
  • We are poised to build a series of major new projects in the national interest.
    Jordan King shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 July 2025
  • In turn, they are required by law to operate in the public interest.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 19 Nov. 2024
  • But is the spread or at least the defense of democracy still in the national interest?
    Rebecca Lissner, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025
  • That’s not the same as being in the public interest, however.
    Sandy Carter, Forbes, 9 Oct. 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
  • 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
  • Journalists, on the other hand, only report what’s in the public interest.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 12 July 2023
  • Wilson’s team had argued that the defamation case should be dismissed because Wilson’s claims were in the public interest.
    Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 22 Nov. 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
  • 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
  • Cities can and must use their authority over streets, curbs, and zoning to shape AV deployment in the public interest.
    Regina Clewlow, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
  • Even more troubling is the possibility that the new town could use the power of eminent domain to legally seize his land for a project deemed to be in the public interest.
    Guthrie Scrimgeour, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2025
  • While government efficiency is undoubtedly in the public interest, so too is how the same public data is used.
    Lauren Coulman, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • President Cyril Ramaphosa this year signed a law enabling the government to take private land without compensation when it is deemed to be in the public interest.
    Zolan Kanno-Youngs, New York Times, 16 May 2025
  • 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
  • In this case, however, Goldberg held onto the group-chat story until after the Yemen strike began and withheld parts of the texts in the national interest.
    Debra J. Saunders, Oc Register, 28 Mar. 2025
  • What’s happened now is the tone that the president is setting from the top, popularizing the idea that people trying to work in the public interest are actually hurting the country.
    Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 22 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • Nine out of 10 Democrats expressed confidence in scientists acting in the public interest, barely unchanged over the same period.
    Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • The rule opened a pathway to federal permitting of transmission lines deemed by the Energy Department to be in the national interest.
    Daniel Moore, Axios, 17 Oct. 2024
  • The jury rejected the BBC's defense that its journalism was fair, responsible and in the public interest.
    Fatima Al-Kassab, NPR, 30 May 2025

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