But that special status also has been one reason for Western interest in helping this city.

It is in Western interests to promote both those goals.

As energy secretary, he plunged into issues vital to Western interests.

So the two will find common ground in resisting what are perceived to be Western interests.

Since the 1970s western interest in Asian religions has seen a rapid growth.

From the 1970s on western interest gave way to the growth of the so-called Vipassana movement in the west.

How can it not be in the Western interest to help a policy succeed that the West has wanted all along?

That these proposals are in his country's interest does not make them, automatically, hostile to Western interests.

It's time to have real freedom from all including dictators, western interests, and Israeli security.

We would like to see them reliant on Western commercial and political interests rather than going another way.