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