in the public interest

基本解释

IT IS usually agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive.
大家通常认为，为了保证公共利益，应该提高赌场的门槛和成本。
At issue in both cases is whether and when it is legitimate to restrict an individual’s rights in the public interest.
两起案件都涉及到限制个人享有公共利益的权利是否合法，以及何时限制才合法的问题。
In this case, we felt that there was sufficient evidence and it was in the public interest for the prosecution to proceed.
在这件案子中，我们觉得有足够的证据并且为此进行的起诉事关公共利益。

The Center for Medicine in the Public Interest is a group in New York supported in part by the drug industry.
And that's a serious concern but the fact that the government itself took the lead in bringing that point to public attention suggests in part government's electorate interest So one should not take this all in their mighty actions.
这是个重大问题,但政府自身把这个事实,揭示给大众,说明政府在考虑如何划分选区,才符合自身利益,所以人们不应该将,这种观点带入可能的行为中。
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But too much of it can have risky consequences, says Michael Jacobson of the Center for Science in the Public Interest.

Hopefully such groundless sensationalism will not derail a regulation so clearly in the public interest.
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公共利益
Public policy is in the public interest to choose the allocation and implementation of the process established norms of behavior.
公共政策是政府对公共利益进行选择分配和落实的过程中所制定的行为准则。
为公众利益