"interest" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Still others took positions contrary to their personal interests.
- "We're becoming highly consumptive, contrary to the islands' interests," he said.
- Such a display of weakness would have run contrary to their interests.
- Such actions are used as leverage, to force the victim to act in a way contrary to their own interests.
- From a practical point of view, the desire to be surrounded by more open space rather than less runs contrary to our best interests.
- The most common exception, he added, is when "someone admits to the corporation that they have acted contrary to its interests."
- Had it not been so contrary to his own interests, he would have let his temper have full rein.
- The Irish public have been led to generally believe that nothing contrary to our interests will happen, irrespective of our decision.
- In disagreeing about the matter, the candidates seemed to take positions contrary to their own interests.
- I believe he can influence people at a distance to cause them to act in ways contrary to the law and their own interests.
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