Today, transfers from rich countries to poor, and downwards redistribution within poor countries, are in the collective interests of the rich countries.

ECONOMIST: Letters

Commissioners are there to pursue the interests of all European citizens while national ministers are elected to pursue the interests of their fellow citizens regardless of whether these may conflict with collective European ones.

ECONOMIST: Prosecuting the war

He is chairman of the NHL's Board of Governors and represented the interests of the NHL team owners in negotiating the terms of the league's new collective bargaining agreement.

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It speaks to the resilience and strength of Chinese culture in helping the particular afflicted group align its interests with the general collective society, enabling them to live out their lives enduring the pains of their life situation.

FORBES: China's Growing Problem Of Too Many Single Men

In view of its impact on collective security interests and existing alliance agreements, a counterpart study should be initiated at once with the allies.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: US-Soviet Joint Ventures: The Camel's Nose Under The Tent

Instead, the Center for Security Policy believes that the President must take counsel from others, more representative of the American people and their collective interests.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

Balancing collective and individual interests is the job of politics.

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Bankers, as true of any profession, are not collective blobs with uniform interests or robot-like behaviors conforming to academic conjecture, but methinks most actively seek credit-worthy customers.

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However, he also believed that a republic, where people elected representatives rather than making collective decisions directly as in a classical democracy, could be inoculated against the worst consequences of special interests.

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