competing interests

The two groups, Chinese and black, had no competing interests.

But Republicans find they have competing interests even among themselves.

"It means you'll have a lot of competing interests there."

But even within California, getting cooperation from competing interests will not be easy.

But they say that the company is walking a fine line among various competing interests.

President Bush is operating as if economic growth and the environment are competing interests.

None of the authors have any other financial competing interests.

And representative democracy makes it hard to say no to any of the competing interests.

On many issues, the rules strike a balance between competing interests.

You also have all these competing interests all the time.

"We spent a great deal of time balancing the competing interests on whether to disclose."

No Do you have any other financial competing interests?

Sometimes the competing interests fought, but in my time, the violence was always controlled.

I understand that there are competing interests here, but as Council members we often deal with such conflicts.

Burton tried to steer a course down the middle of all the competing interests.

Local governments reflect and in some cases balance these competing interests.

It was a tense meeting, attended by people with competing interests.

But after learning more about the game's competing interests, he has backed away from that stance.

The goal of running a city is much more complex: one must make decisions based on competing interests and values, especially in bad economic times.

Today a wide variety of groups with competing interests met to further their own agendas.

The Republican leaders still must decide what amendments can win the support of the competing interests.

So far, it has managed successfully to balance its competing interests.

The reality is that readers are wary of competing interests.

Thus, the Pentagon is challenged with how to balance several competing interests.

"It is the competing interests that are the problem."