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
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
Thus these large investors could gain a dominant interest in smaller firms, a situation many corporate managers want to avoid.
From Time Magazine Archive
When he acquired a dominant interest last June in the venerable firm of Price Bros.,
From Time Magazine Archive
Those features of the facts at hand are salient and substantial upon which the dominant interest of the time throws its light.
From Theory of the Leisure Class by Veblen, Thorstein
