The first duty of any government must be to protect the interests of the taxpayers.

任何政府的首要职责都必须是保护纳税人的利益。

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For government documents without solid legal grounds, and that have held back the entrepreneurship of the people, or even hurt their rights and interests, they will all be cleaned up, or abrogated.

对那些于法无据影响群众的创业热情，甚至损害群众利益的不合理文件要坚决进行清理，该废除的废除。

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Administrative compensation has been the focus of the society. It is directly related to the reputation of the government and the vital interests of citizens.

行政赔偿问题一直是社会关注的热点，它直接关系到行政机关的信誉和公民的切身利益。

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By selling it to the government, the mining interests hoped to keep the price of silver from falling.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

He promised that workers would be removed only in the interests of better government.

VOA: special.2010.05.27

And,in May,President Dmitri Medvedev announced creation of a government commission to help prevent what he said was falsification of history that harms the interests of Russia.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

In truth, the two are closely related in Iran, and football is especially intertwined both with the commercial interests of the government and with its propaganda objectives.

ECONOMIST: Nasser Hejazi

The UK Advocate General has argued that the disclosure would harm the international relations and national security interests of the UK Government, but Megrahi's team argue that the Lord Advocate in Scotland need not uphold the immunity from disclosure.

BBC: NEWS | UK | Scotland | South of Scotland | Lockerbie bomb document bid fails

But we believe that we -- two things: that we can work something out, and that the American people absolutely want us to work something out, because as the leaders of both houses of Congress have said, Republican and Democrat, as the President has said, it is not in the interests of the American people for the government to shut down.

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