Or, if interests overlap, they do not necessarily coincide.

The one crucial area where their tastes and interests overlapped could not easily be mentioned, or admitted even to themselves.

When my environmental interests and his overlapped, as they sometimes did, we pooled resources, got bills passed up on the Hill.

Some members received honorariums from companies whose interests overlap with their legislative responsibilities.

Our interests overlap at least that far.

And sometimes, corporate interests overlap with those of their challengers.

Do his fat-cat special interests overlap with Forbes advertisers and story subjects?

In actual practice, audiences, interests and markets overlap quite considerably.

Thus far their interests had not sufficiently overlapped to be of concern.

However, if the parties' interests do not perfectly overlap, then the maintenance of informative signaling systems raises an important problem.