adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
interest
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It does not require it to take care of particular individual or sectional interests , since these will often conflict.
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This gave them potential political leverage were their sectional interests to be threatened.
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The speaker's sectional interests , as a businessman, are seen to coincide with the wider interests of everybody else.
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They can not simply allow one sectional interest in the community to override others.
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Power requires a wider appeal than that to mere sectional interest .
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Each one recognises sectional interests within the profession but has little or no regard to the public at large or the potential client.
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A public corporation managing a monopoly might do so in a sectional interest .
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All this to modern eyes looks like, and indeed very often was, mere selfish defence of local and sectional interests .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Members of the church's administration were divided among sectional lines.
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the sectional tennis tournament
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Instead, the parties are more regional and the sectional bitterness worse than ever.
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Perfect copies must have the competition form and the fold-out sectional view of 44 Downing Street.
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The speaker's sectional interests, as a businessman, are seen to coincide with the wider interests of everybody else.