Example sentences of "[adj] to the [adj] interest " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE stubborn candidature of Mr John Browne for Winchester would be comic were it not also deceitful — he proclaims himself the Conservative in all his literature — and dangerous to the Tory interest in a desperately close election . |
| 2 | Hence if a registered shareholder , A , first executes a transfer to a purchaser , B , and later to another , C , while both remain unregistered B will have priority over C. If , however , C succeeds in obtaining registration before B , he will have priority over B so long as he had no notice , at the time of purchase , of the transfer to B. If C did have notice , although he has been registered his prima facie title will not prevail over that of B who will be entitled to have the register rectified ( assuming that there are no grounds on which the company could refuse to register B ) and in the meantime C 's legal interest will be subject to the equitable interest of B. If both transfers were gifts , the position would presumably be different ; the gift to B would leave A without any beneficial interest that he could give to C and , not being a ‘ purchaser , ’ C could not obtain priority by registration ; his legal interest , on his becoming the registered holder , would be subject to the prior equity of B. |
| 3 | William Elstobb found the eighteenth-century fenmen content with ‘ uncomfortable accommodations ’ ; and Vancouver wrote of Burwell in 1794 : ‘ Any attempt in contemplation for the better drainage of this fen is considered hostile to the true interests of these deluded people . ’ |
| 4 | Households will so arrange their affairs that the utility return on future as opposed to present consumption is just equal to the real interest rate at which households can lend out money . |
| 5 | Similarly , trade unions are thought of as institutions whose objectives and practices are fundamentally opposed to the public interest . |
| 6 | But by accepting an explanation of this which is manifestly racked by conceptual , methodological and theoretical shortcomings , one gives purchase to the type of idea which is likely to prove injurious to the general interests of ethnic relations and the particular interests of black people . |
| 7 | Discovery can be ordered before the commencement of such proceedings against a person likely to be a party to the proceedings , and after the commencement of such proceedings against third parties , but not where compliance would be likely to be injurious to the public interest . |
| 8 | Baldwin rose briefly and magisterially : ‘ It is sufficient for me at the moment to say that every statement of fact and every implication of fact in that article is untrue , and in my opinion gravely injurious to the public interest , not only in the country but throughout the Empire . ’ |
| 9 | It endangers continued public confidence in the political impartiality of the judiciary , which is essential to the continuance of the rule of law , if judges , under the guise of interpretation , provide their own preferred amendments to statutes which experience of their operation has shown to have had consequences that members of the court before whom the matter comes consider to be injurious to the public interest . |
| 10 | It is invalid unless it is reasonable as between the parties and not injurious to the public interest . |
| 11 | Since the mid-1960s , the post-war consensus politics of British society have virtually been abandoned : trade unions can no longer presume to have a partnership role and have increasingly been perceived as problematic to the national interest . |
| 12 | However , it is always repayable on demand and due to the fluctuating interest rate , costs may be difficult to assess over longer periods . |
| 13 | That the project 's objectives took the form they did was partly due to the particular interests of those involved and partly to a knowledge of other experimental projects operating at that time . |
| 14 | The change might well have been partly due to the intense interest in American research at the time into the political socialisation of children . |
| 15 | Unconstrained profit maximisation is not , however , conducive to the public interest , or at least any easily defended conception of it , for two reasons . |
| 16 | Many of the policies which protected landowners ( limited enfranchisement and protective trade tariffs ) were inimical to the economic interests of the rising middle class . |
| 17 | In saying that , is he recognising that isolation would mean the sacrifice of influence that is essential to the vital interests of the British people — |
| 18 | Lord Goff stated that where the unconsciousness was temporary , the doctor may not proceed contrary to the stated interests of the patient , provided the patient was rationally capable of forming such a wish . |
| 19 | In their judgement the court held that the restrictions implied in the agreement were not contrary to the public interest , that abrogation of the agreement would lead to booksellers being undercut by multiple retail traders and large library suppliers , and that many stockholding booksellers , notably the specialists , would be driven out of business . |
| 20 | The Disclosure Directive also allows competent authorities to exempt EC-listed companies from the requirement to notify the public if the disclosure would be contrary to the public interest or seriously detrimental to the company concerned ( provided that the public would not be misled ) ; this does not , however , exempt a person acquiring voting rights from having to disclose them to the company if a relevant threshold is reached . |
| 21 | In 1962 , the UK Restrictive Practices Court upheld the agreement , on the ground that its restrictions were not contrary to the public interest . |
| 22 | When parliament allows groups of individuals to exercise such power it should come as no surprise that they use it for their own advantage and contrary to the public interest . |
| 23 | ( The 1989 Monopolies and Mergers Commission Report on the Brewing Industry concluded that the operation of ‘ tied houses ’ by the large brewers was contrary to the public interest and proposed a limit on the number of public houses that each brewer could own , although the Commission 's proposals were significantly modified by the government . ) |
| 24 | In that case it was held that a journalist lacked standing for an order ( of mandamus ) that the chair of the justices should reveal the names of the magistrates who had heard a particular case , but that he did have standing for a declaration that a policy of not disclosing the names of justices who heard certain types of cases was contrary to the public interest and unlawful . |
| 25 | The genesis of these provisions was the widespread belief that the operations of share-pushers were damaging to the integrity of the markets , and contrary to the public interest . |
| 26 | In addition , the Secretary of State could override or veto any decision of the Scottish Assembly if it affected a matter reserved to the Westminster Parliament in a way which the Secretary of State felt was contrary to the public interest . |
| 27 | More recently , the question has been raised as to whether it is contrary to the public interest for a private company to be taken over by a foreign state-owned company , given the privatization objectives of the UK government . |
| 28 | The presumption is that such agreements are contrary to the public interest , and the onus is on the parties to the agreement to demonstrate that a particular agreement is not . |
| 29 | The MMC simply has to be satisfied that the merger is not contrary to the public interest . |
| 30 | The Secretary of State can not , however , overrule a finding by the MMC that a merger , for example , is not contrary to the public interest . |