1.   An official fails when he or she identifies the national interest too closely with the interests of his or her own constituency.

2.   But it is likely that both would be harder-nosed in the pursuit of national interests.

3.   Eden took refuge behind the usual claim that it would not be in the national interest to disclose how Crabb had drowned.

4.   Here a national interest of very nearly the first magnitude is involved.

5.   Internal problems Inevitably achieving general agreement on Market completion involved a delicate balancing of national interests.

6.   Is it not clear that the multiplicity of often overlapping self-regulating authorities are not adequately protecting the national interest?

7.   Liberal policy was unpatriotic because it recognised other national interests and threatened dissolution of the empire.

8.   Maybe in the national interest new company incorporation certificates should carry an official government warning!