To be sure, efforts at influencing U.S. decision-making are common among a host of legitimate interest roups, including many foreign countries.
Government has a legitimate interest and obligation to protect our tax dollars.
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Individuals such as Jeff Sessions have no place in public office because they have no legitimate interest in solving problems they only seek to create them.
Needless to say, the government has no legitimate interest in banning guns that gun-controllers simply do not like and would not, themselves, care to own.
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We recognize that Iran has tried to take advantage of the turmoil there, and that the Bahraini government has a legitimate interest in the rule of law.
But there is one area in which the state is generally felt, even by most libertarians, to have a legitimate interest, and that is the protection of children.
"Our opinion is that the countries which have a legitimate interest in discussing Arctic issues must be accepted as observers in the Arctic Council, " Danish minister of foreign affairs, Villy Sovndal, said in an interview when asked about China's bid to join.
On that basis, in a recent case the Supreme Court struck down a federal ban on depictions of animal cruelty, rejecting the government's argument that it had any legitimate interest in banning pictures and videos associated with crimes, and finding even assuming the government's interest that the statute swept up too much protected speech.
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Judge David Eady said there was no legitimate public interest in publishing the name.
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Any measure must be justified by a legitimate government interest that is compelling or at least important.
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There is no legitimate state interest to ban this kind of protection.
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In other states, such as Florida, broad non-compete provisions may be enforceable provided the restrictions are reasonable and justified by a legitimate business interest.
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What we know is that this administration has been very cooperative with the legitimate oversight interest of Congress, broadly speaking, and in regard to this matter.
But given the amount of real time information that each business produces is it possible that rather establish up front a set of crude regulations that either allow or deny an activity, is it possible to pay attention to actual data to make sure that legitimate public interest goals are being met?
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Or shouldn't it be the long term, legitimate, just interest of our country.
These and related issues provide ample justification on the grounds of "legitimate" self-interest for U.S.-led intervention in Soviet affairs.
After Henry legalized interest in 1545, short-term annual interest rates dropped to between 9% and 10% from 20% to 30% and created a clear distinction between usury as predatory lending and interest as legitimate compensation.
Because the payments in a profits-interest plan represent a legitimate compensation expense, owners can charge payouts against earnings to reduce their business tax.
Is it legitimate for a Muslim to use an interest-based banking system to get a mortgage?
But he added that there were circumstances in which a police officer could claim a legitimate defence of acting in the public interest - and it would be for the jury to decide whether Casburn's actions met that test.
Carney took exception to the Republican math, telling reporters Tuesday that counting reduced interest on national debt was a legitimate savings counted in budget plans by both parties for years.
The protectionist trend is defended as a legitimate means of shielding industries vital to the national interest.
Politically, the new ideology would need to reassert the supremacy of democratic politics over economics and legitimate anew government as an expression of the public interest.
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That said, there is a legitimate concern that when the time comes to raise interest rates, the Fed may hold back because of political pressure or fear of fracturing financial markets.
There has been no showing that in this country the governmental interest in circumscribing personal choice is somehow more legitimate or urgent.
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In October, a writer, Arundhati Roy, suggested Kashmiris might have legitimate complaints, and that Pakistan might have a justifiable interest in Kashmir.
The traffickers have evinced no interest in turning their backs on drugs in favor of legitimate business.
The first agreement merges U.S. and Canadian security concerns with our mutual interest in keeping our border as open as possible to legitimate commerce and travel.
"These groups hijacked the legitimate demands of the Libyan people and want to exploit it for their interest, " he said in a video clip posted on the Libya al-Mostakbal news website, which he heads.
Mr Myler maintained that the paper believed its reports were "legitimate and lawful and, moreover, that publication was justified by the public interest in exposing Mr Mosley's serious impropriety".
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