31.   He said it was in the vital interest of the United States to support those nations.

32.   His view is that troops should be deployed only to defend or advance vital American interests.

33.   His government must walk a fine political line, building a new relationship with Turkey without seeming to compromise vital Greek interests.

34.   I believe the real challenge of our foreign policy today is to deal with problems before they do permanent harm to our vital interests.

35.   I find the issues of aging to be of vital interest to all Americans.

36.   Hotel accommodations have become a vital interest to the Mills Corp. as it built several outlet malls throughout the country.

37.   However, Likud attacked the document as a sellout of vital Israeli interests.

38.   If a problem involves vital national interests, then the United States would act unilaterally or set up a multilateral force outside the United Nations, these officials said.

39.   In extreme circumstances, the United States may still feel compelled to protect vital interests unilaterally.

40.   In the Cold War era, our fundamental vital interest was to prevent a dispute in the Middle East from becoming a U.S.-Soviet conflict.