Narrow, individual interests cannot hinder the efforts of a large majority of countries.

The salvation of the country should have priority over narrow interests and personal ambitions.

Not surprisingly, the political elite became self absorbed and served only its own narrow interests.

When they have asserted themselves, it has been largely in pursuit of narrow national interests.

All of us here representatives are national leaders. In today's world, we cannot serve our own interests well unless we rise above narrow national interests.

Sure, their states need some extra help, but narrow interests should not be permitted to endanger our planet s future.

That partnership is in everyone's interests, because it will narrow the gap that impedes the progress of developing countries.

Donors should structure aid to ensure that it supports sound national development policies and programs, rather than their own narrow interests.

And all Arab states must coordinate their efforts to realize common ambitions, rather than continuing to pursue only narrow national interests.

Yet they share a root cause, whereby speculative and often narrow interests have superseded the common interest, common responsibilities, and common sense.

In doing so, we must move beyond narrow national perspectives and interests and treat all issues in a balanced and holistic manner.

Both the government and the opposition need to grow up and stop putting narrow personal interests above those of the country and its people.

Whether in democracies, dictatorships, or in the international arena, those outcomes reflect the ability of narrow, special interests to achieve results that harm the majority.

We owe it to the international community to act in a spirit of compromise and consolidation and to move beyond narrow national views and interests.

Political and policy narratives are becoming more domestic and narrow, while the international agenda and the pursuit of collective common global interests are having greater difficulty being heard.

Clearly, responses to conflicting political interests are often cast in religious terms, but that is only an expedient disguise used by those pursuing narrow political and national objectives.

Almost everybody complains, almost everybody aggressively defends their own narrow and short term interests, and almost everybody abandons any pretense of looking ahead or addressing the needs of others.

Others argue that Western democracies have the opposite problem a surfeit of narrow, politically assertive interests leads to underinvestment and poor tradeoffs between present and future opportunities and performance.

We believe that as long as nuclear weapons exist and are stockpiled by some nations for their narrow security interests, exhortations about non proliferation will continue to ring hollow.

Until China puts its responsibilities as a modern global power ahead of its narrow national interests, the danger from North Korea will grow as the Kim regime becomes ever more unstable.

Yet, whether driven by narrow ideology or responding to the demands of special interests, the Bush administration is still demanding an extreme form of such liberalization in its bilateral trade agreements.

And leadership starts from a realization that we must be prepared to trade disunity for unity, narrow interests for shared responsibility, and a bitter past in favour of a better future.

Such a decision will also serve to convince critics of the Organization that the Member States can rise above narrow self interest and embrace the larger interests of the international community.

Its chronic indecisiveness about the North and unwillingness to use its leverage, thus shielding its socialist ally, seems to reveal to the wider world a China obsessed with its own narrow interests.

The boxes are too narrow.

I would like to conclude by saying that we must have the courage to go beyond our narrow national security interests in order to enhance the international system which will be providing security for all.

This narrow focus makes the debate unconstructive.

Indeed, Mubarak s strategic vision is desperately narrow.

China s new leaders should first reassert the Party s role as defender of the general interest by creating an environment in which narrow interests, seeking to protect their growing influence and wealth, do not taint complex policy choices.

It is also important to narrow the mismatch between women s abilities and their career paths. The current system tends to reinforce gender roles, encouraging children to follow culturally framed paths, instead of nurturing their individual interests and potential.

So it is past time that the European Union stopped treating energy as a bilateral issue, with some of the larger member states trying to protect their own narrow interests at the expense of the common European good.

This lopsided resolution underscores one glaring fact it is not international law and the Charter of the United Nations that govern the conduct of the Security Council but sheer power politics and the narrow interests of major powers.

Britain s last election also produced a narrow outcome.

On this narrow point, they might be right.

This is a clear but very narrow standard.

While Merkel seems to believe that all eurozone countries should play by the same rules, she does not seem to realize that today it is Germany that is going it alone in pursuit of its own narrow national interests.

To these we could perhaps add a fourth freedom for the United Nations freedom from the inertia and narrow political interests that hold us back from really revitalizing and reforming the way we organize our work in this Organization.

There is no time for complacency. Those concerned should take to heart what American President Barack Obama said in his inaugural speech Our time for standing pat, for protecting narrow interests and putting off unpleasant decisions that time has surely passed.

The United Nations has known its greatest successes and won its lasting authority from those occasions when its Member States have risen above narrow self interests to the uplands from which the vision of a better common future becomes clear.

Plastics have overlapping densities over a very narrow range.

Alas, Hatoyama controls only the narrow field of policy.

Her mission was projected from a narrow ideological base.

Selectivity and narrow reinterpretation can only weaken the Treaty.

It was some kind of narrow river or channel.

States parties to the Treaty must narrow that gap.