dominant interest
Example Sentences
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The prevention of future attacks remains our dominant interest, if not our only compelling one there.
From Slate • May 11, 2017
Thus these large investors could gain a dominant interest in smaller firms, a situation many corporate managers want to avoid.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their daughter followed suit by eloping with the young Earl of Jersey, and ever since the family has had a dominant interest in Child & Co.
From Time Magazine Archive
When he acquired a dominant interest last June in the venerable firm of Price Bros.,
From Time Magazine Archive
Gerrit Smith, in his late speech in Congress, said, that cotton is now the dominant interest of the country, and sways Church, and State, and commerce, and compels all of them to go for slavery.
From Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject by Elliott, E. N.
