Narrow, individual interests cannot hinder the efforts of a large majority of countries.

The salvation of the country should have priority over narrow interests and personal ambitions.

Not surprisingly, the political elite became self absorbed and served only its own narrow interests.

When they have asserted themselves, it has been largely in pursuit of narrow national interests.

Accordingly, their positions should not be dictated by the confines of their narrow national interests.

All of us here representatives are national leaders. In today's world, we cannot serve our own interests well unless we rise above narrow national interests.

Therefore, they should not follow the dictates, or remain within the confines, of their narrow national interests.

Sure, their states need some extra help, but narrow interests should not be permitted to endanger our planet s future.

That partnership is in everyone's interests, because it will narrow the gap that impedes the progress of developing countries.

We must rise above the dictates of narrow interests and work to benefit from the diverse perspectives of our membership.

Donors should structure aid to ensure that it supports sound national development policies and programs, rather than their own narrow interests.

And all Arab states must coordinate their efforts to realize common ambitions, rather than continuing to pursue only narrow national interests.

Yet they share a root cause, whereby speculative and often narrow interests have superseded the common interest, common responsibilities, and common sense.

In doing so, we must move beyond narrow national perspectives and interests and treat all issues in a balanced and holistic manner.

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Both the government and the opposition need to grow up and stop putting narrow personal interests above those of the country and its people.

It was also necessary to go beyond narrow national interests and develop a road map to include a human rights perspective in trade policies.

So narrow minded.

Whether in democracies, dictatorships, or in the international arena, those outcomes reflect the ability of narrow, special interests to achieve results that harm the majority.

We owe it to the international community to act in a spirit of compromise and consolidation and to move beyond narrow national views and interests.

Security Council resolutions should reflect the common will of the international community and not serve the narrow interests of the permanent members and their allies.

30. With development cooperation based on mutual interest, the United Nations should be the natural place where narrow and short sighted national self interests are overcome.

Political and policy narratives are becoming more domestic and narrow, while the international agenda and the pursuit of collective common global interests are having greater difficulty being heard.

Clearly, responses to conflicting political interests are often cast in religious terms, but that is only an expedient disguise used by those pursuing narrow political and national objectives.

Unfortunately, the recalcitrance and narrow interests of certain elements have prolonged unstable and insecure conditions in Mogadishu, seriously hindering UNOSOM apos s efforts to help Somalia towards recovery.

We have seen some in South Africa people who fear that their narrow interests may not be preserved under the new, democratic dispensation threaten to undermine that dispensation.

The boxes are too narrow.

The error margin is narrow.

Too narrow in the hips.

It is paradoxical indeed that the increased interdependence dictated by the developments that are taking place at the present time should go hand in hand with political fragmentation and clash of interests as individual States pursue their own narrow interests and ambitions.

Almost everybody complains, almost everybody aggressively defends their own narrow and short term interests, and almost everybody abandons any pretense of looking ahead or addressing the needs of others.

Others argue that Western democracies have the opposite problem a surfeit of narrow, politically assertive interests leads to underinvestment and poor tradeoffs between present and future opportunities and performance.

We believe that as long as nuclear weapons exist and are stockpiled by some nations for their narrow security interests, exhortations about non proliferation will continue to ring hollow.

We believe that while the institution of the veto lasts, its use should be circumscribed so as to prevent its unilateral use to promote or protect narrow national interests.

should become more accountable to the United Nations and not to the major Powers to avoid manipulation of their policies and activities in pursuit of narrow national and regional interests .

The doorway's too narrow. Chill, Sayid!

Step by step, it does narrow.

Take the straight and narrow path

Take the straight and narrow path

Until China puts its responsibilities as a modern global power ahead of its narrow national interests, the danger from North Korea will grow as the Kim regime becomes ever more unstable.

Yet, whether driven by narrow ideology or responding to the demands of special interests, the Bush administration is still demanding an extreme form of such liberalization in its bilateral trade agreements.

And leadership starts from a realization that we must be prepared to trade disunity for unity, narrow interests for shared responsibility, and a bitter past in favour of a better future.

Such a decision will also serve to convince critics of the Organization that the Member States can rise above narrow self interest and embrace the larger interests of the international community.

This narrow focus makes the debate unconstructive.

Indeed, Mubarak s strategic vision is desperately narrow.