Our basic interest at this point is simply to get union members to the convention.

The apprentice training is one of the basic interests.

It was based on ties of language, history, spirituality, and basic interests in life.

The reason, Niall realized, was that spider perception is limited by a basic interest in nature as a source of food.

A basic interest would be, for example, not being made to suffer pain on behalf of other individual human or non-human animals.

In the view of animal rights advocates, these basic interests give the animals that have them both moral and legal rights.

It is in the basic national interest of both the local states and the big nations, never mind any high-minded values.

Philosophically, my basic interest has always been to represent the little guy.

The basic interests of the children must come before everything else.

Human rights are a basic American interest, and the Administration should not flinch from promoting them.