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

But what they see is small mindedness and the pursuit of narrow self interest.

We have also attempted to restore independence and integrity to our institutions, held hostage by private and partisan interests.

The parochial interests of those 11 countries could complicate the Council's decision making process.

It should take precedence over narrow self interest or the potential profit opportunities associated with exploiting an informational advantage.

They lamented how the science in the final document had been relegated to a footnote, stressing how shortsighted, national self interest had won out.

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

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.

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.

Although the central government may be committed to reforms, implementation at the local level can be very uneven, owing to parochial and vested interests.

For its part, Portugal reiterates its firm commitment to multilateralism, to the United Nations and to an international order in which the collective interest is not systematically sacrificed to expediency and self centred interests.

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

Indeed, unilateral policies can never succeed in a global world defined more and more by shared concerns rather than national interests.

These narrower interests, however understandable they may be, should not and will not take precedence over the common goal of improving the major institution mandated with the maintenance of global peace and security.

In fact, the US has probably been lured into serving these countries own narrower interests, whether it be Israel s unconvincing vision of its own security or the Sunni countries opposition to Shia Iran.

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.

If its politicians can take a few steps to show that they can overcome narrow partisan interests to establish the more transparent and efficient government that a middle income country needs, they could quickly re energize India s enormous engines of potential growth.

If Germany no longer Europeanizes its more narrowly defined national interests, but pursues them as others do, the result will be a re nationalization within the EU.

The Eurozone s Narrowing Window

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.

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.

Yet listening to the world s leaders speak, last week, I was struck by their passion, commitment, and collective determination to turn a page from a past of countries divided by narrow interests to nations united in the cause of a global common good.

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 a compelling narrative, one with which we can readily explain how politics so often generates perverse outcomes. 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.

E. Working at micro, meso, macro and global levels

The European Parliament, which for the first time must approve the MFF, should use its new found influence to uphold the EU wide public interest and offset the blinkered, vested interests of individual member states.

The king of Babylon has heard the news of them, and his hands wax feeble anguish has taken hold of him, pains as of a woman in labor.

The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail.

This narrow, fearful mindset runs contrary to everything this festival is about.

Conflict of interest

The lesson is clear security interests must come before business interests.

The objections of industry rest on the narrow issue of added financial cost.

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

So when the British came to terms with this harsh reality, they played out the lamentable end game of their management of the negotiations with small minded cheese paring and logic chopping offers, all designed primarily to safeguard narrow British interests, mainly at the expense of the new member states.

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.

Ideas over Interests

The Coming Age of Interest

Conflict of interest

Best interests of the child

America s Middle East interests are not identical with those of Europe.

And Cape Cod, there are idyllic roads, and all of us can drive in this room.

I always have the feeling when I see those narrow eyes that I am facing an organized army of ants who can do almost anything.

In the case of small scale fisheries, it was proposed that the General Assembly

Surely, the national interests of the US and the West are not the only ones that matter.

The federalist structure of Germany s political system, moreover, favors parochial approaches over grander designs.