Then the attempted coercion of Ukraine was again his personal interest in retaining power, and in this case his personal interest in getting rid of lawsuits from a state.
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That matters, because in Chinese culture "we always advocate that you need to put your country's interest over your personal interest, and your team's interest over your personal interest," she says.
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The congressman has expressed a personal interest in space development.
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I started working in this business out of personal interest.
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The year 2002 hardened my personal interest in video gaming.
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But her personal interest in art turned into her vocation.
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The Marmaris case is of personal interest to Mr. Erdogan.
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Trump's perspective rarely considers much outside of his own personal interest.
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Like all libraries and bookshops, curiosity, and personal interest are everything.
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Well, we all have a vested personal interest in the outcome.
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But Mr. Putin took a keen personal interest in the project.
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Well it's in Spiegel's personal interest to both dispute and defend them.
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The president&aposs personal interest, the president&aposs interest as the chief.
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Apparently some of the investors have a personal interest in automating kitchens.
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Citizens deserve an investigation without lingering questions of bias or personal interest.
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In the past, Bridenstine has expressed a personal interest in space development.
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Every day, he will put the national interest above his personal interest.
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China, as it happens, is a topic of personal interest to Mr. Blankenship.
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He is afraid he will have a vested personal interest in the outcome.
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They had a chance to prioritize national interest, but they chose personal interest.
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White House officials said Mr. Trump took a personal interest in her case.
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And, like many world leaders, Macron had a personal interest in tackling the problem.
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But too many "me and my family" docs mistake personal interest for public interest.
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But what about readers who do not have a personal interest in the subject?
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Just as a matter of personal interest, do you have a robot vacuum cleaner?
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He even drew upon another personal interest, cryptography, in coming up with the level.
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Calk took a "personal interest" in Manafort's loan applications and expedited them, Raico said.
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No one would want to do this unless you have a very personal interest.
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Perhaps via your employer retirement plan, friends and family, or personal interest and experience?
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Whether the king's unusual personal interest gave added impetus to the effort is unclear.
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Bentley also may have violated ethics law by using public resources for his personal interest.
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He also may have violated ethics law by using public resources for his personal interest.
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"They spend a lot more time taking a personal interest in the students," he said.
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In fact, personal interest and self-transcendent purpose are the dual engines of intrinsic motivation.
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But he also let slip his more personal interest in the Louisiana election, where Gov.
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" By nearly two to one (59 to 33 percent) they said "his own personal interest.
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President Obama understood the importance of this and took a personal interest in the agency.
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"The president's personal interest is now clear: to cheat in the next election," said Rep.
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The president took a personal interest in the contest, quizzing aides and allies about developments.
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Some of this may reflect a longstanding personal interest in the topic by the candidate.
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Was it personal interest in chess, or was it more of an abstract challenge for computing?
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"The prime minister is taking personal interest," added a second official and close aide to Sharif.
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Both, however, were in Donald Trump's personal interest and any interest of his 2020 reeelection campaign.
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Now, he buys them out of a personal interest, not necessarily because they'll appreciate in value.
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It was wrong of Comey to not defer to Trump's personal interest in sidelining the investigation.
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Students first skim the headlines to find subject matter in which they have a personal interest.
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The federal judge also talked about the ramifications of the president's personal interest in the case.
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They're much too busy singing and dancing to take a personal interest in the world they've departed.
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It's touched on lightly, but I want to know more about your personal interest in the company.
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Moonves, who was then the president of CBS Entertainment, seemed to take a personal interest in her.
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The inspector general recently concluded McCabe leaked information for his personal interest, not that of the public.
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The only interest being served in that case would appear to be Donald Trump's own personal interest.
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It's also the manuals and such around it, which to me, that is not my personal ... Interest.
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This rare quality of leadership — of putting the national interest before his personal interest — persisted throughout his presidency.
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Russian photographer Elena Anosova's work in penal colonies began from a deeply personal interest stoked by her childhood.
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The boycotting countries deny seeking regime change in Doha, and Sheikh Abdullah denied acting out of personal interest.
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Nor was the personal interest wanting: a great adventure in thought had at length come safe to shore.
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It demonstrates Trump's personal interest in meeting the Russian president, long before he even announced his 2016 campaign.
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Mr. Trump, a former property developer, has taken a personal interest in the location and cost of embassies.
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In other words, it was in his personal interest to tell the authorities what they wanted to hear.
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Both, however, were in Donald Trump's personal interest, and in the interests of his 2020 re-election campaign.
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The authors are journalists, and, like many writers on the subject, they have a personal interest in autism.
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" The risk that they "would place their personal interest in re-election above our abiding commitment to democracy.
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Also, a well-placed book that speaks to a personal interest or memory is the perfect conversation starter.
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Chewning's replacement, Stewart, has identified a personal interest in cybersecurity issues and in making the Pentagon more efficient.
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Both, however, were in Donald Trump's personal interest, and in the interests of his 2020 re-election campaign.
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Some are a bit much, and others reflect various limitations in terms of production value or personal interest.
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A Cyprus deal has drawn the personal interest of top U.S. and European diplomats including Vice President Joe Biden.
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The health team currently reports to Apple COO Jeff Williams, who has a strong personal interest in the sector.
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Moreover, the inspector general found that McCabe leaked the information solely for his personal interest, not the public's interest.
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Where Strzok's failure is based on personal bias, however, Rosenstein's failure is based on personal interest in the investigation.
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I have been revisiting a few popular histories of the Civil War, both for personal interest and future work.
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Mr. Brown pursued another personal interest, dirt bikes, when he made the motorcycle racing documentary "On Any Sunday" (1971).
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Noel's constituents – and all of us – had a right to know of his personal interest in paring the monument.
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Despite his financial stake and personal interest in the company, Buffett is equally notorious for not using an iPhone.
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Writing for personal interest is equally enjoyed by both groups, though the middle class seems to write the least.
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Often, it's subject area expertise born of years-long personal interest, like makeup or humor or history or bicycles.
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The president took a personal interest in the three contests and quizzed aides on how they were shaping up.
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Rockefeller, taking Lee's advice, visited the miners' tent camp and expressed a personal interest in his workers' well-being.
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The first lady has taken a personal interest in helping choose the Trump administration's envoy to her home country.
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Trump has shown a personal interest in that second objective, shaming US companies on Twitter for making products in China.
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On Tuesday, U.S. ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell revealed that President Trump had taken a personal interest in Palij's case.
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Do you have a personal interest in getting more Maori actors onscreen, or bringing Maori culture to a wider audience?
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As the second largest holder of Viacom A-shares, Mario Gabelli has a vested and personal interest in the outcome.
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What difference does it make if the bad thing, this time, is done in the personal interest of the president?
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And we want people who are business savvy, we want them to have a strong personal interest in Berkshire itself.
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As someone who traces her lineage to King Taejo, I have a personal interest in his long-ago palace drama.
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Johnson took a particular personal interest in the case and said that police were "pissed off" about the alleged hoax.
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At the time, the reason for the president's unusually personal interest in financial assistance to Ukraine was not yet known.
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His cohort, Sergey Brin, has a deeply personal interest in Parkinson's — he has a genetic mutation associated with the disease.
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One indication of the powerful connections of the hospital's critics was the personal interest that Pope Francis took in the saga.
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Minhaj also delves into topics of personal interest, including his love of hip-hop music and the political climate of India.
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" And the budding Olympians "take this huge lift that someone like her has that degree of personal interest in their journey.
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Starting Science Faction in the prior year, Sandhaus had turned what was a personal interest of his into a groundbreaking business.
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"Today this committee voted to put the president's personal interest, perhaps their own political interests, above the national interest," Schiff said.
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One is my personal interest and why I am on the board of Fred Hutch, a terrific, primarily cancer, research center.
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Reno took a personal interest in the political tussle over Elian Gonzalez, the young shipwreck survivor whose mother drowned fleeing Cuba.
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Wheeler denied any communications between himself and chemical industry lobbyists, saying his push to end animal testing was of personal interest.
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The complaint said Trump pressed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden to advance Trump's personal interest.
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Many use their billions to lobby for US policy that benefits them, blurring the line between philanthropy and personal-interest spending.
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President Trump is reportedly taking a personal interest in the $10 billion Pentagon cloud contract that Amazon is widely expected to win.
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"There's always some personal interest in the electoral outcome of policy decisions and there's nothing wrong with that," Mr. Philbin told senators.
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If the current age has taught us anything, it is that personal interest, naked political ambition or tribal affiliation trumps everything else.
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But as his personal interest in makeup and beauty grew, there was one problem: the beauty world was not interested in him.
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No, I have no personal interest in Amazon other than to be continually impressed by its unfailing efficiency and superb customer service.
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Bezos isn't the only CEO who has taken a personal interest in finding the creme de la creme of the hiring pool.
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As it happens, the artists had an intense personal interest in where human beings leave their hands when they don't have pockets.
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If you have any personal interest at all in Kubrick, I would encourage you to listen to it because it's pretty fantastic.
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But Trump and Sanders ultimately decided it was not in their personal interest to provide the same level of transparency as past administrations.
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Out of personal interest, she began covering the bomb damage as well as the war efforts and everyday lives of British civilian women.
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Kushner recently convened a criminal justice roundtable at the White House where attendees said he spoke about his personal interest in the issue.
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Quotes: "I mistakenly allowed the distinction between my personal interest and my government activities to become blurred," he said on resigning in 2011.
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As a senior member of the Agriculture Committee, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky takes a strong personal interest in the issue.
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So Mr. Blood's story held personal interest, in part because he chose the perilous course of challenging a policy from inside the system.
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It is each country's personal interest to keep emitting and hope someone else will take the costly steps needed to solve the problem.
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But separately from a personal interest, it's something that had been set out as a challenge for computer science right from the earliest days.
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It's definitely one of the perspectives of this study, besides knowing more about the Greenland shark, which is my personal interest in this project.
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Like other Area 120 projects, Grasshopper was built by a small team of Googlers, who had a personal interest in working on the project.
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OA: My personal interest is in Black feminist books, mainly nonfiction — so Audre Lorde, bell hooks, Patricia Hill Collins, Michele Wallace, writers like that.
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Still, Ivanka Trump has weighed in on topics of personal interest, such as the women's empowerment initiative in which she's played a crucial role.
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The American people deserve and expect their elected leaders to put the public interest ahead of their own personal interest in power and greed.
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"They take so much personal interest in the kids," Ms. Abraham said, "but they have to have a second job" to make ends meet.
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"My personal interest, which will not surprise you, [is] cybersecurity," she told POLITICO in an interview when she took over as HASC staff director.
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The candidate has yet to release a platform on tech issues, has expressed tepid personal interest in technology and has attacked major tech companies.
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He added that his conversations with Cohen were "almost exclusively about real estate," and that he has "no personal interest" in Cohen's court appearance.
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He said his deep personal interest in homelessness, combined with the widespread agreement that something needed to be done, had prompted him to act forcefully.
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Shortly after taking office, Nixon took a personal interest in automated transportation, seeing it as an achievement that could define his first term as president.
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My personal interest in this demographic has never been all that personal and continues to wane—I wish a few of his antiheroes had kids.
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The president has also expressed a personal interest in the tech industry as he thinks about what to do when he leaves the White House.
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Sanders, who appears to have no personal interest in guns whatsoever, has been historically weak when it comes to voting on things like background checks.
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The ad casts Mr. Rohrabacher as a creative and nonpartisan lawmaker, with a personal interest in health care, rather than one who follows Republican leaders.
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But of course, even a Republican like Jeff Sessions could be considered suspect if he were to ever fail to act in Trump's personal interest.
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But because the museum in question is the Stedelijk in Amsterdam, which Mr. Koolhaas visited regularly in his youth, he took a very personal interest.
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I believe that this was mostly out of personal interest: More transparency in public institutions was leading to less space for them to make money.
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This is not the White House weighing in on a discrete issue of congressional oversight in which it doesn't have a deep-rooted, personal interest.
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But parents can direct the app to pay the child their own, personal interest rates — say, 20 percent or even 100 percent — as an incentive.
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Or your interviewer&aposs LinkedIn profile mentions a personal interest in a social cause, sport, or activity in which you also have a genuine interest.
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Ms. Jones, who took a deeply personal interest in her authors in a way that is nearly extinct in today's publishing world, was fiercely competitive.
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Aid with strings is often controversial, though few instances toe the line between national interest and personal interest as closely as the ones placed on Ukraine.
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What started out as a personal interest for her, exploring supplements for an autoimmune disease, became the Moon Juice empire in only a few short years.
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He was using the power of the presidency in its most unchecked area, foreign affairs, to advance his own personal interest as opposed to the country's.
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And, in the days following the kidnapping, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and President Dwight D. Eisenhower took a personal interest in developments in the case.
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Democrats seized on the report, with the Florida Democratic Party sending out a release arguing it suggested that Buchanan voted for the bill for personal interest.
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"So I just trust that she's here for the right reasons, and will actually fight for all of us and not in her own personal interest."
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People believe in resurrection and life after death and God having a personal interest in the specifics of our lives, but one laughs at Inri's theology?
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Mr. McCain took a personal interest in the ship, visiting it in 2015 in Vietnam, where he had been held as a prisoner of war. Cmdr.
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Can you have the least bit of confidence that Donald Trump will stand up to them and protect our national interest over his own personal interest?
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The crux was that, in handling military aid to Ukraine, he placed personal interest above the public interest by using public powers for private political advantage.
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As demonstrated with the scholarship that bears his name, Hennessy also takes a personal interest in education, which plays a big role in the tech sector.
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Doerr, who's primarily known for his technology investments, has taken a personal interest in health care in recent years, including investing his money into the sector.
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Apple is reportedly aiming to deploy the satellites within five years, and CEO Tim Cook is said to have taken a personal interest in the project.
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Acting for personal interest rather than national interest while subverting congressional appropriations is a prime example of the autocratic conduct the Framers believed warranted removal from office.
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At the time, he had a personal interest in aiding the exodus of people from Central America to the United States — he wanted to get there too.
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Ms Hagman's personal interest in making this happen is that, 15 years ago, she did such a search herself, using the far-more-primitive technology then available.
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The impeachment inquiry is focused on whether Trump corruptly sought to advance his personal interest in seeking the investigations and used withheld held military aid as leverage.
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Model rule 1.7 also precludes representation of a client in other scenarios, including when the representation would be "materially limited" by a "personal interest" of the lawyer.
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What to watch: Ivanka Trump has taken a personal interest in eradicating modern slavery, Forrest said, and spoke at the United Nations on the topic last year.
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"I might have brought it up," Mr. Trump said, then argued he had done so because of policy concerns about wind farms rather than any personal interest.
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King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun took a personal interest in the search, sending kitchen trucks to feed the search crews and raincoats to protect them from the downpour.
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His attorney Alan Dershowitz claimed new and expansive power for the President by arguing the President's personal interest in reelection can be synonymous with the national interest.
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Trump has taken a personal interest in the race, asking aides and allies for updates and sending out a stream of texts promoting Rispone and bashing Edwards.
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The question is whether Republicans will concede the obvious conclusion, which is that Trump did all this not in the national interest, but in his personal interest.
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It is hard to rationalize Sessions' personal interest in beating the war drum against marijuana especially when so much progress has been made in the regulated markets.
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Also, as Ghany notes, Priebus has shown a personal interest in FATCA, pointedly denouncing it as a violation of constitutional rights and protections afforded to overseas Americans.
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Williamson, who has made reparations a core campaign issue, maintains that the subject has been an issue of personal interest since long before she ran for president.
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Shinzo Abe, Japan's prime minister and grandson of a wartime minister and post-war prime minister, has made no secret of his personal interest in resolving the issue.
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All of the available evidence indicates that Trump sought to manipulate a foreign power into smearing Biden and other Democrats for his personal interest, not the national interest.
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During Manafort's trial, Federal Savings Bank employee Dennis Raico testified against Manafort in exchange for immunity from prosecution, telling jurors Calk took a "personal interest" in Manafort's loans.
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Tom Hanks Though Hanks has never expressed any personal interest in running for office, film director Michael Moore thinks the Democratic party should try and entice him. Why?
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The FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb also pledged his personal interest in getting this job done, as Politico's Helena Bottemiller Evich reported, and announced his agency's commitment to nutrition.
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"I have no personal interest in the subject of headscarves," said Kronen Zeitung's digital editor-in-chief Richard Schmitt, speaking on the phone from his office in Vienna.
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The Polish Pogrom I read Elisabeth Zerofsky's article about the Polish government's efforts to reframe its involvement in the Holocaust with great personal interest ("Memory Politics," July 30th).
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Lo says he's the one responsible here, having a personal interest in graphic design which led him to take some courses at college alongside his computer science major.
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Alex's motives may be of personal interest to Blum, but the richest case study on display here — it would fit snugly into any psychological textbook — is of Sommer.
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He was warned not to dare try it: The local sheriff said there would be hostile demonstrators facing him, knowing the personal interest he had in the subject.
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Mehta's series deals with the police effort to investigate the crime, focusing on a female officer (Shefali Shah) with a personal interest in bringing the perpetrators to justice.
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Catch up quick: Graham also referenced the president's personal interest in a "Turkish bank case" that appears to refer to the 2017 case against gold trader Reza Zarrab.
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In May 2017, Ross also demanded to know why no action had been taken on his request, taking "an unusually strong personal interest in the matter," Furman wrote.
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"Klaas went on to say that the threat of impeachment is "nullified" when Congress is "populated by people who are driven by personal interest rather than national interest.
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Freya works her magic directly on the body of Baldur, and she does so seemingly without his consent, for her own personal interest—something she freely admits to Kratos.
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A post on the ACLJ website says she received a letter from Vice President Pence one month ago, which stated he had taken a "deep, personal interest" in case.
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But almost all had one common quality — when they reached the point where their own personal interest touched upon the national interest, it was the national interest that prevailed.
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Job postings address black and white questions such as pay and benefits, but reputation covers the grey areas and subjects of personal interest that you can't find so easily.
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But while you can't please everyone, Tanne and Sumpter have it on good knowledge that two people with a very personal interest in the project are rooting them on.
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Trump takes a personal interest in that second objective, shaming US companies on Twitter for making products in China partially to coax them to build those products in America.
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"Most working class people don't even understand that that's going on in Washington, so they're willing to vote against their own personal interest in many cases," Mr. Paylor said.
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Area 120 is a low-key version of Google's famous X moonshot factory, a place where small teams rapidly build new products in which they have a personal interest.
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The personal interest of the voter in his representative becomes less important to him, and we may lose something of the vital strength of our representative form of government.
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"He continued: "And what was in President Trump's personal interest was the opposite: to pressure Ukraine to conduct investigations into his 2020 rival to help ensure his re-election.
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"Beyond my personal interest, our biggest responsibility is to give Argentines the possibility to build a majority to have a new government," Massa said during a seminar in Buenos Aires.
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What began as a personal interest evolved into a serious occult practice with art that continues to reflect Madara's experimentation with ways to combine the digital world with the supernatural.
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When Richard Branson invested in futuristic transportation start-up Hyperloop One this week, he jumped into yet another market that's of deep personal interest to fellow billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk.
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" Jefferson City's CBS 13 KRCG reports that the request for the temporary restraining order accuses Hawley of having a "personal interest in the resignation, impeachment, and prosecution of Gov. Greitens.
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But he made clear that he has a personal interest in the issue of privacy and questions about Big Tech's market power — and believes the DOJ should look into them.
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I'm watching this trend with personal interest: As the great grandson of the meatpacker Oscar Mayer, like Devos, I had the immense privilege of being born into the 277 percent.
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"A reasonable observer would conclude that the [Convening Authority]'s ego is closely connected to the offense, and thus he has a personal interest in the matter," the judge said.
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And I tried to warn America that if a president can get away with not divesting, everything is fair game for him to do in service of his personal interest.
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During class discussions about the lawsuit, James recognized that her personal interest in diversity applied to larger challenges that organizations were facing in adjusting to a new, more diverse environment.
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For my mom, a longtime elementary school educator with a deep personal interest in making STEM/STEAM programs integral to classrooms, Labo seemed like a thrilling taste of the future.
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He's not a gear nerd: "Although I have a personal interest in film projection, I am not particularly interested in the historical or technical specifics of film projection," he said.
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Today's generation thinks of it as a lowly occupation... The art of selling fine clothes has been lost in big, overcrowded department stores where the intimate personal interest is not important.
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Regardless of my personal interest in the matter, now more than ever, I recommend consulting with an experienced immigration attorney who can handle the process with integrity, creativity, compassion, and rigor.
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The president's actions send a clear message to our enemies that he is willing to compromise our national interest and that of our allies for his own political and personal interest.
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Every single action he has taken has advanced his personal interest, starting with the monetizing of the presidency and the ignoring of conflicts of interest — perhaps even relishing conflicts of interest.
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The administration's posture toward Ukraine is only getting murkier as Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, is also trying to enlist the Ukrainian government to pursue investigations of personal interest to Trump.
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"It is a huge honor to have the Duchess as our Patron, especially given her personal interest in photography." said Mike Taylor, the Chief Operating Officer of the Royal Photographic Society.
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My own personal interest in it has never been that high … I mean, both of us — we're roughly the same age and we just didn't grow up with that as a possibility.
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Whether you were in his Washington, D.C., office, district office or on his committee staff, he took a personal interest in your work on behalf of his constituents and the American people.
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Flashback: President Trump took a personal interest in the drug, Spravato, thinking it would be great for the Veterans Affairs system, and reportedly wanted the agency to buy "truckloads" of the drug.
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For a decade, Cora Harrington has channeled her personal interest in intimate apparel into the Lingerie Addict, a blog that's attracted a cult following and changed perceptions about the significance of underwear.
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"The primary reason for recusal is a personal interest in the outcome in the case, or personal or pecuniary connection to one of the parties, that often deals with investments," he said.
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Jefferson County Attorney Mike O'Connell said on Thursday that his office has a personal interest in the case, citing the presence of a plaque commemorating the young attorney's service to the community.
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Political analyst Daniel Silke said Gordhan had kept his political standing amid the fraud controversy by positioning himself as "the savior of the national interest opposed to the forces of personal interest".
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President Donald Trump has taken a personal interest in the F-35 program, slamming the costs as "out of control" and then getting involved in the Pentagon's contract negotiations with Lockheed Martin.
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This is why his particular, and acute, narcissism is so dangerous: he appeals to no social standards at all, only his own imagination as to what is in his own personal interest.
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It's focusing on the president's conduct relative to whether he subsumed America's policy goals for his personal interest and whether that posed a threat to the national security of the United States.
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Growing up the son of a street vendor (his mom sold rice cakes, his dad "never worked," he said), he had little exposure to fashion besides his own personal interest in clothes.
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Despite President Trump's lack of personal interest in planning, the White House Counsel's Office is now moving fast to prepare for the twin threats of Robert Mueller and the new Democratic House majority.
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I have a very personal interest in this question, having been semi-traumatized on a terrifying flight whose tumbling felt like that of a rag doll in a clothes dryer cranked to turbo.
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I have a lot of old gadgets floating around my house these days, partly out of personal interest in testing things out, in hope of writing stories about the things that I find.
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Sessions announced on June 7 that the DOJ would not settle enforcement actions by allowing companies to pay judgments against them by contributing to special interest groups with no personal interest in cases.
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Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger, that most influential family member, took a personal interest in The Times's College and School Service after World War II, working with the executives Ivan Veit and Nathan W. Goldstein.
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Dallas Mavericks star JaVale McGee has a personal interest in the water crisis in Flint, MI -- since he's from there -- and tells TMZ Sports the residents need more than just bottles of water.
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This is the mystery of personal taste and personal interest, as in, what interests you and what doesn't, and it is part of what makes us human, and what makes us individual humans.
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President Obama has taken a personal interest in the plight of the honeybee — and in his plan to help pollinators, he highlighted the fact that they provide billions of dollars' worth of crop services.
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Despite President Trump's lack of personal interest in the planning, the White House Counsel's Office is now moving fast to prepare for the twin threats of Robert Mueller and the new Democratic House majority.
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According to the American Times Use Survey conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Americans over the age of 15 spend about 0.28 hours, or about 73 minutes, reading for personal interest each day.
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Farmer, a tech power broker at Microsoft, still had a personal interest in making sure the Presidential Innovation Fellows program stuck around into the new administration, so he devoted his spare time to it.
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"The founders ensured that federal officeholders would not decide for themselves whether particular emoluments were likely to compromise their own independence or lead them to put personal interest over national interest," the lawsuit states.
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It ruled that while the state attorney general had jurisdiction over charities, there is "no substitute for a donor, who has a 'special, personal interest in the enforcement'" of the terms of his gift.
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And never mind George Orwell's sentiment in his essay "The Moon Under Water" that the perfect pub has "barmaids (who) know most of their customers by name, and take a personal interest in everyone".
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And here it appears to be toying with the idea of spamming Facebookers with businesses they've neither used nor expressed any personal interest in using… So, er, so much for trimming its own fat then.
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Firstly, because my personal interest in food—already negligible at the time—saw few miraculous developments during my four years of higher education, throughout which I survived exclusively on Cheetos, first-rate tarama, and Bolinos.
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That new cause was achieving equal rights for the LGBT community both here and abroad, which was also of personal interest to Brinker, whose son, Eric Brinker, is an openly gay philanthropist and LGBT advocate.
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Furman wrote in his original opinion that Ross had an "unusually strong personal interest in the matter," and that he went through with this action despite "strong and continuing opposition" from the U.S. Census Bureau.
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Whether Bush was a full-on "puppet," as the left is prone to thinking, or merely malleable, the result was that in areas outside his personal interest (which was most areas), he followed his advisers.
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Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Mitt Romney asked the president's defense team regarding a scenario in which Trump had several motives, in both his personal interest and the public interest, in withholding Ukraine's military aid.
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" "If the president or anyone else impedes or subverts the national security of the United States in order to further domestic political or personal interest," she said, "that is more than worthy of your attention.
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Mr. Kinsella had never invested in Broadway, but had a personal interest: His father, Walter A. Kinsella, played the bugle in a 1924 Broadway play, "What Price Glory," and went on to act in others.
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Judge Mlambo, however, said that the accusations "detailed in the report are extremely serious," and that Mr. Zuma had a "clear personal interest in the outcome of the inquiry," according to local news media reports.
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It no doubt made its way through the grapevine that Cichoki was working on Actiview, and Koren told me that a Pixar employee with a personal interest in assisting the visually impaired brought it up internally.
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In a simple-majority legislature, these conflicted members would have to make difficult choices between their private views or personal interest and the position of their party, backed by a populist president or powerful interest groups.
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His latest focus remained on home automation, which has been a personal interest for some time, including wiring (or, more precisely, wireless-ing) up his own house in a variety of ever more complex digital experiments.
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"Therefore, we strongly advocate and support all safeguarding measures against such exploitative practices... Working in concert, we shall be able to promote cutting-edge and innovative technologies without compromising the personal interest of the general public."
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"We must be sure that the President and his Administration are conducting our national security and foreign policy in the best interest of the American people, not the President's personal interest," she said in a statement.
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Trump took a personal interest in the JEDI competition ahead of the contract being awarded, asking officials in July to "look at it very closely" after hearing complaints about the contracting process from industry and lawmakers.
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The possibility is there, however, and the Southampton group's leader, Peter Kazansky, seems happy enough about that in itself: "At the moment, my personal interest in the direction of saving everything forever if possible," he told Spectrum.
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It says Rahmeh was in breach of his fiduciary duties because of deals involving Korek with companies in which he also has a substantial personal interest, and to which Korek has paid tens of millions of dollars.
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As for his personal interest in blockchain and the digital currencies that it's spawned, Brin admitted he doesn't know "a whole lot about cryptocurrency," but an amateur mining rig set-up with his son piqued his interest.
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The Duke of Sussex will likely want to speak about two issues of personal interest: mental health and the needs of military veterans, said the person, who declined to be identified because the event isn't secured yet.
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Speaking of which, cooking isn't of much personal interest; since I have trouble touching raw food products and find no thrill in the prospect of slaving over something I might not like the taste of at the end.
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Most recently Horowitz reviewed former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe's conduct before the election when he leaked information about his decision to investigate the Clinton Foundation and found McCabe was acting out of personal interest, against department policy.
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The show focuses in particular on his interest in what he saw as primitive cultures and how he continued to develop that aesthetic and personal interest even in the face of social and commercial pressures to abandon it.
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The Martin Bergmann is owned by the Arctic Research Foundation, a nonprofit group founded by Jim Balsillie, the Canadian former co-chief executive of BlackBerry, and Tim MacDonald, a Canadian businessman with a personal interest in the Arctic.
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" In other words, Hollingworth thought interest in having children naturally varied from those with "zero or negative interest," through those with a moderate amount of interest, to those whose "only vocational or personal interest lies in maternal activities.
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The FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb has repeatedly pledged his personal interest in nutrition, and his desire to go ahead with menu labeling, which he doesn't view as a left or right issue, as Politico's Helena Bottemiller Evich reported.
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It is no exaggeration to say that never before has the selection of a Supreme Court nominee been so thoroughly compromised by the president's profound personal interest in appointing a judge he can count on to protect him.
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Influence peddling in his administration was so widespread, according to the nation's former public protector, that it became a form of state capture in which Mr. Zuma's business partners or friends influenced government decisions in their personal interest.
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"I always grew up surrounded by these objects: I considered them members of the family, and every time my father would sell one, it would make me sad," Lucas Ratton recalled, explaining his personal interest in the field.
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Democrats say Trump put his personal interest over the country's when he pressured Ukraine to announce politically-damaging investigations of Democrats, while using military aid and a White House meeting coveted by Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky as leverage.
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Instead, Mr. Kushner, who is married to Ivanka Trump, the president's older daughter, is positioning himself to be the overseer of something of even greater personal interest to his father-in-law: Mr. Trump's 2020 re-election campaign.
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It's way too easy for legislators to conflate personal interest and party interest with public interest when their jobs are at stake: Representatives shouldn't be choosing their constituents to lock in partisan power against the normal electoral tides.
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"He seems to take a real, genuine personal interest in this," Rebeccah Heinrichs, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, where she specializes in nuclear deterrence and missile defense, said of the president's focus on returning American hostages.
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Graham also mentions Trump's personal interest in a "Turkish bank case" in the call that appears to refer to a U.S. case involving Reza Zarrab, an Iranian-Turkish gold trader and client of Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
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"Congress must know whether the president and executive branch are acting solely in the national interest — or are influenced by personal interest," as Steven Rosenthal, a senior fellow at the Tax Policy Center, testified before Congress this month.
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But it's not necessarily the anti-abortion spiel that's garnered criticism; rather, critics are upset about the lack of transparency in disclosing how the author of today's column, Lori Szala, has a personal interest in the abortion issue.
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She traveled to Standing Rock out of personal interest, but also as the host of Rise, a show on Viceland that traveled to indigenous communities across the Americas to meet people protecting their homelands and rising up against colonization.
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Experts in government ethics said that giving over control to Trump's children would do virtually nothing to prevent potential conflicts of interest, since there's usually no daylight between one's personal interest and the interest of one's immediate family members.
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Alexis de Tocqueville wrote in "Democracy in America" – a key "Anglo Saxon" text – that "the Anglo-American relies upon personal interest to accomplish his ends and gives free scope to the unguided strength and common sense of the people".
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A quarter of high school students pick their future career based not on advice or personal interest, but rather on how they've seen that occupation represented on TV or in the movies, according to research released this week by Careerbuilder.
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Barr's evident intervention in matters of personal interest to the president, particularly as they relate to former campaign advisers once at the center of Mueller's Russia probe, has now put the reputation of an entire institution at risk, DOJ veterans said.
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While Jacobs just officially launched Moai, whose name refers to the iconic hand-carved statues on Easter Island in the South Pacific Ocean, he started making some side investments over the last couple years in areas of more personal interest.
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That is part of Himmler's own intent personal interest in occult literature, but I don't think that has much to do with why the SD went to such lengths to collect this stuff, all these different libraries, all these different archives.
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The royal decree said the committee was needed "due to the propensity of some people for abuse, putting their personal interest above public interest, and stealing public funds" and will "trace and combat corruption at all levels," according to the release.
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But the Stone controversy was just the latest in a series of recent moves by Barr to "take control of legal matters of personal interest to President Donald Trump," as Carol Lee, Ken Dilanian, and Peter Alexander of NBC News reported.
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"I was shocked by how well it went — not only did people take a personal interest in Anna, but a ton of people came up to us after the show to say the kindest things about our relationship," Kelsey said.
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"My personal interest is to develop diagnostic systems for use in resource-limited areas, so I always tell my students to imagine that they will do all the tests in the desert and they can only carry a backpack with them," said Chen.
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Inspiring People will also include nationwide outreach, including a school program for teaching history and art – subjects Kate, who studied art history at the University of St. Andrews, where she met and fell in love with Prince William – holds personal interest in.
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I would be lying if I said my own personal interest hadn't picked up over the last few years, having briefly flirted with the idea of a threesome with my girlfriend and a mutual friend of ours whilst drunk in an Uber.
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The current U.S.-China trade dialogue has a good chance of breaking with this long-standing pattern of failure for two reasons: First, unlike his predecessors, the current U.S. president has shown a personal interest in trade policy and is focused on it.
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"We have a lot of work to do, because it's incumbent upon our committee to bring to light whether any foreign policy decisions are being motivated by compromise or personal interest as opposed to the national interest," said one Intelligence Committee aide.
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Trump's apparent criteria for picking top officials have raised questions about whether he is seeking the most qualified candidates or instead choosing people who might be willing to cross ethical or legal lines, especially on issues where Trump has taken a personal interest.
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NEWARK — Senator Robert Menendez took a personal interest in obtaining visas for three women who were acquaintances of a wealthy friend and donor, directing senior members of his staff to take up the issue, a former aide to Mr. Menendez testified on Monday.
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"To those who lent themselves, for their personal interest, to this embarrassing attempt to install an illegitimate government, that is how you will go down in the history of Puerto Rico," Rivera Schatz said in a statement posted on Facebook after the ruling.
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Some Bloomberg advisers say they would, as a matter of personal interest, welcome a genuinely searching philosophical debate between Bloomberg and Warren on the role of capitalism and wealth creation, which Bloomberg believes in and Warren thinks too often hurtles into pure greed.
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"Netanyahu chose to advance the legalization bill, insisted on Amona and galloped into the wall in full knowledge that this would be the result — while choosing his personal interest over the national interest," Tzipi Livni, a former foreign minister, wrote on Facebook.
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President Trump has taken personal interest in the cost of military equipment in the past, bashing the F-35 program as too expensive both on the campaign trail and in December tweets, and he recently took credit for driving the price down.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Wednesday that an email it had received from an adviser to then U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump in January 2016 about a Moscow real estate project had made no mention of Trump's personal interest in the project.
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She also took advantage of the option Haas gives for students to develop and run their own courses — she built on her personal interest in mindfulness meditation and created a one-credit class for other students, which continued to be offered after she'd graduated.
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"I cannot remember a single time in my entire life – and I mean this without fear of contradiction – I can't think of a single time he put his personal interest or his personal comfort before that of his children," Biden shared of his father.
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MOSCOW, Feb 27 (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Wednesday that an email it had received from an adviser to then U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump in January 2016 about a Moscow real estate project had made no mention of Trump's personal interest in the project.
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Meanwhile there was a small internet following of ex-scene kids who had megan-fox-holding-a-lighter-to-her-tongue-gifs on their social media page and absolutely-not-coincidentally also had a personal interest in Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried making out.
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Giuliani eventually canceled his trip after facing widespread criticism for what appeared to be an attempt to push a foreign government to meddle in the 2020 US election, but Trump and his allies have continued claiming Biden was acting in his own personal interest.
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Giuliani eventually canceled his trip after facing widespread criticism for what appeared to be an attempt to push a foreign government to meddle in the 2020 US election, but Trump and his allies have continued claiming Biden was acting in his own personal interest.
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" • "I am rooting for a demonstration to the world — and maybe most of all to our president and his enablers — that the United States has a justice system that works because there are people who believe in it and rise above personal interest and tribalism.
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"If we allow this gross abuse of power to continue, this president would have free rein – free rein – to abuse his control of U.S. foreign policy for personal interest, and so would any other future president," U.S. Representative Sylvia Garcia said on the Senate floor.
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Mr. Erdogan, taking a personal interest in the case, said last year that there were "malicious" intentions in the prosecution, and he also raised the matter with Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. during talks at the United Nations, according to Turkish news reports.
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"In carrying out their official duties and obligations, all officers and employees of state government must work solely for the public good, striving vigilantly to avoid even the appearance that their actions are motivated by private or personal interest," the 2003 executive order said.
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Either way, O'Brien has helped Trump achieve those successes, although he's also faced criticism for putting partisan battles over the fates of actual hostages, most notably when O'Brien went to Sweden to sit in for A$AP Rocky's trial because of the president's personal interest.
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I am rooting for a demonstration to the world — and maybe most of all to our president and his enablers — that the United States has a justice system that works because there are people who believe in it and rise above personal interest and tribalism.
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In practice, though, it means that, while non-Jews are not officially barred from synagogue services on High Holy Days, attending a service — whether to support a partner or out of personal interest — on Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur may be an impractical endeavor.
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But the president should not be able to command this loyalty when the conflict concerns something as fundamental as the professionalism and independence of the Justice Department — and involves a case in which the president has a direct personal interest and the defendant is a political associate.
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The bishops quote Pope Benedict XVI: "The Church wishes to help form consciences in political life and to stimulate greater insight into the authentic requirements of justice as well as greater readiness to act accordingly, even when this might involve conflict with situations of personal interest" (28).
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So he created the Communist International, or Comintern as it was known, and took a personal interest in the formation and development of revolutionary socialist parties everywhere, including the Communist Party U.S.A., formed around 21946, the British and French Communist Parties the following year, and many others.
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" Now, Cutz says, "there has been an indisputable and noticeable decline in attention being paid to Venezuela," in large part because Trump — who he says showed great personal interest in Venezuela, frequently raising it unprompted — realized "this won't be an easy win for his foreign policy.
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While Fieldwork features Bedia's collection of African traditional art — amassed while traveling with curator and anthropologist Manuel Jordán — there are also his own pieces, side-by-side, creating a kind of retrospective that showcases both his anthropological and deeply personal interest in the rituals and traditions depicted here.
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This is a criminal investigation in which President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE has a deep and personal interest.
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And the essence of civic virtue is the willingness, in matters of state, to put the interests of the community ahead of one's personal interest—an impossible demand, as green and republican thinkers jointly concede, amid the conditions of acute wealth inequality in civically imperiled societies like today's America.
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Robert A. Iger, Disney's chief executive, took a personal interest in "Black Panther," approving its $200 million production budget (at least 30 percent more than budgets for other Marvel nonsequels like "Doctor Strange" and "Ant-Man") despite concern by some at Disney about sales of "Black Panther" toys.
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That inkling comes from a few things: whether they've had an interesting career or life journey; if they have a reputation for being a good interviewee, or have shown a willingness to speak in a personally insightful way; and my own personal interest in them and their work.
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Faithful execution had a distinctive meaning in Anglo-American law at the time of the founding: It limited executive officers to acting only in the public interest and never for their own personal interest; it required subordination to law (which was most often legislation); and it mandated honest and diligent performance.
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Alexander Vindman — who fled Ukraine with his family when he was 3, rose to become the top Ukraine expert on the National Security Council, and came forward to talk about what he knew about Trump's abuses of power — as an example of someone who puts country before his personal interest.
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But he could pressure Morales' successor to not press charges or even harbor Morales and his family in the U.S. Adriana Beltrán, an expert on Guatemalan politics at the Washington Office on Latin America, said she is among those who believe that Morales agreed to the migration deal out of personal interest.
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As detailed in the George W. Bush Institute's new report, "A Role Without a Rulebook: The Influence and Leadership of Global First Ladies", their influence, convening authority, high visibility and "soft power" uniquely position first ladies to have an impact on both issues of personal interest as well as advancing the administration's agenda.
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" Hannity later added that he "did not ask Michael Cohen to bring this proceeding on my behalf, I have no personal interest in this proceeding, and, in fact, asked that my de minimis discussions with Michael Cohen, which dealt almost exclusively about real estate, not be made a part of this proceeding.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump once again berated the "dirty cops" of the law enforcement establishment on Thursday, accusing the Justice Department of going after his friends but not his enemies in an outburst that flouted Attorney General William P. Barr's pleas to stop publicly intervening in prosecutions where he had a personal interest.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump, as he considers pardoning military personnel accused of murder and other crimes, is following a pattern for wielding his clemency power that relies more on his personal interest in a case and its odds of galvanizing his political base than on the careful legal procedures used by his predecessors.
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Giebel, who has a personal interest in the topic because one of his grandfathers was part of a firing squad while the other hid a Jew, said he also wanted the exhibition to show how quickly a democracy could be abolished and make clear that undemocratic movements needed to be nipped in the bud.
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The heir to the throne, Prince Charles, has notoriously struggled against the constitutional constraints on his ability to influence public policy: his "black spider memos" — handwritten letters lobbying government ministers in private on issues in which he takes a personal interest — were made public in 2015 after a protracted legal challenge by a national newspaper.
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" In a monarchy, the chief executive shares an identity with the state, so a king or queen "has so great a personal interest in the government and in the external glory of the nation, that it is not easy for a foreign power to give him an equivalent for what he would sacrifice by treachery to the state.
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Despite Russian leaders' torch-hot outrage and denials, only a fool, or someone with a personal interest in Russia's prosperity could refute the findings of the WADA report -- not to mention the admissions of a Russian official with first-hand knowledge of the team's methods who told The New York Times how the dopers repeatedly avoided detection.
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In response to some wild speculation, let me make clear that I did not ask Michael Cohen to bring this proceeding on my behalf, I have no personal interest in this proceeding, and, in fact, asked that my de minimis discussions with Michael Cohen, which dealt almost exclusively about real estate, not be made a part of this proceeding.
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" He observed further that the personal interest of a hereditary monarch was "so interwoven with that of the Nation ... that he was placed above the danger of being corrupted from abroad"—but that an elected president would, as he put it, lack "that permanent stake in the public interest which [would] place him out of the reach of foreign corruption.
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Schiff, a Democrat from California who was a prosecutor before being elected to Congress, took to the podium to highlight the reasons that he said prove President Trump's demands that Ukraine launch investigations against his political rivals stemmed from personal interest and not the US's national interest:Trump only cared about a public announcement of the investigations, rather than the investigations themselves.
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Just keeping up the pressure on the president and also on those in Congress who may have the ability to at least voice this issues, not to let this slip through the cracks—we should make sure that when we view the decisions being made, that we're asking ourselves, What was the personal interest of the individual who made that decision or cast that vote?
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"Given what happened with the Department of Justice investigation, given what's happening here, if in fact President Trump can get away with what he did again, our imagination is the only limit to what President Trump may do next or what a future president may do next to try to abuse his or her power to serve his own personal interest over the nation's interest," Berke said.
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Even if the impeachment hearings are not splintering the minority of voters who approve of Trump's performance, there's evidence they are hardening resistance to him among the majority who don't: Among voters who say they disapprove of Trump's job performance, for instance, more than 90% said in a recent Quinnipiac survey that he was pursuing his personal interest, not the national interest, in Ukraine.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE has reportedly taken a personal interest in his administration's plan for July 4 celebrations in Washington D.C., and has notified city officials of plans to potentially alter the yearly celebration with a personal address.
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A spokesman for the Kremlin said Wednesday that an email it received from Michael Cohen in January 2016 did not mention President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE's personal interest in a potential deal to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.
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"If, in fact, President Trump can get away with what he did again our imagination is the only limit to what President Trump may do next or what a future president may do next to try to abuse his or her power to serve his own personal interest over the nation's interest," said Barry Berke, a lead House Judiciary Committee staffer working on impeachment, during a recent hearing.
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Gender: WomanMonthly ExpensesRent: $1,150Loans: $0 (My parents gave me a personal interest-free student loan for grad school that they do not expect paid back until I am finished, but I do spend an average of $150 every six weeks on textbooks.)Wi-Fi: $75Electric: $203 average Healthcare: $60 (my fiancé has a large medical debt and we live entirely off my income due to his illness)Renter's Insurance: $26.50Savings: I try to deposit at least $20 a week, but also use a "Keep the Change" program in my app that transfers small amounts to my savings.
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