How To Use Self-preservation In A Sentence
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It was his instinct for self-preservation that led him to abandon his former friends and transfer his allegiance to the new rulers.
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Her dominating instinct for self-preservation told her she was in silhouette against the lift's light to anyone out there in the darkness.
A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
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Seen in this context, walking off the fiscal cliff is not so much a death wish as an act of national self-preservation.
Times, Sunday Times
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Chaos theory conveniently dovetails with this instinct of military self-preservation.
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Her recapture was a bloody deed, but the law of self-preservation is inexorable under such circumstances.
The Adventure Of Elizabeth Morey, of New York 1901
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Private Rudi Leshko, one of those recently debussed onto his feet from within the cramped BMP, was among the handful who at once tried to move ahead, as much for self-preservation as of aggressive intent.
First Clash
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At what point do we let our sense of self-preservation take over?
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What I find repulsive is that the Court goes out of its way to diminish the importance of the right to self-preservation.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Second Circuit Due Process Victory for Connecticut Carry Permit Holders
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Both super-powers shared the instinct for self-preservation and negotiated continuously in search of credible systems of nuclear deterrents.
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Einstein's theory of relativity was ostracized by many scientists in the cause of self-preservation, while quantum mechanics and cybernetics were virtually banned.
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Amnesia is a primitive, self-preservation mechanism, which comes into play when man need to protect himself or herself from some form of severe emotional or physical trauma.
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His sense of self-preservation requires his conception to be veridical, and is threatened when it is disconfirmed.
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_Simple_ reflex action, or instinct, answers to the animal faculties, such as acquisitiveness, secretiveness, selfishness, reproductiveness, etc., and accomplishes two important purposes; self-preservation and the reproduction of the specie.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
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Talk of Bob Sercombe ratting is just that, his self-preservation demands him staying where he is.
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The aim is not self-preservation, but self-mastery, and results show that the method is successful.
Times, Sunday Times
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For all their talk and promises of support, they have always placed self-preservation at the top of their list.
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Even in the age of reality TV you might expect a greater sense of self-preservation.
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The Tory party has confirmed its instinct for self-preservation.
Times, Sunday Times
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I think self-preservation will kick in and look after me and the bike.
Times, Sunday Times
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All normal human emotions atrophy except one, the instinct for self-preservation and, allied to it, the itch to tyrannise.
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What impels you to put aside the instinct for self-preservation and risk your lives to take these cliffs?
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These acts of lethal self-preservation prove conclusively that he knows who he is and that he fully realizes that his acts are parlously illegal.
Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema
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In its best sense it expresses an animal instinct of self-preservation.
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The askari has technical, military training, and his goal is the ‘self-preservation ‘of his group.’
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The reasons for eliminating terror are clear, and speak to simple self-preservation.
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In the end, it is her undaunted spirit and self-preservation that is remarkable, not her morality.
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But for adrenaline junkies with a sense of self-preservation, there is arguably no finer superbike.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are two activities common to human beings and animals - self-preservation and perpetuation of the species.
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Self-preservation is generally one of the highest priorities for well-paid grasses, and thirty pieces of silver was a lot of money.
Archive 2009-04-01
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Seen in this context, walking off the fiscal cliff is not so much a death wish as an act of national self-preservation.
Times, Sunday Times
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While people in the same occupation often protect their own, self-preservation is a strong instinct in everyone.
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Politicians rarely change sides unless their instinct is purely one of self-preservation, human personalities remain predictably the same.
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Timothy was not, by drinking too much water, to overcool his stomach, and weaken nature, but to use means for self-preservation — to drink ‘a little wine,’ &c.
The Ten Commandments
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Was his withdrawal from the return journey good luck or self-preservation?
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The audience's surrogate -- in order words, the hero with stupidly romantic ideas about how life should be and little sense of self-preservation -- is the euphoniously named Jacob Jankowski, played by the woefully untalented Robert Pattinson.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Water for Elephants
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And, in another swell little marriage between projection and the reliance on contradistinctive definitions of manhood, the straight man who invents a sexual assault out of whole cloth benefits from the overwhelming narrative that it is women who routinely make false rape claims in desperate bids of self-preservation or vengeance.
Feminism 101
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His instinct for self-preservation is too high, and it makes him afraid to endanger himself, even for a good cause.
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Jimmy's first emotion on hearing the footstep was the crude instinct of self-preservation.
Piccadilly Jim
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There's a sense of shame and self-preservation that you develop that lasts a long time.
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I wasn't ready to chuck everything that I believed back in his face because of my sense of self-preservation.
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Her instinct for self-preservation, however illogical it might be, remained strong.
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The result is rather a one-sided return to barbarism or to the feroe natura -- a rehabilitation and accentuation of those ferine traits which make for damage and desolation, without a corresponding development of the traits which would serve the individual's self-preservation and fullness of life in a ferine environment.
The theory of the leisure class; an economic study of institutions
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Thanks to my instinct for self-preservation, we made it.
The Sun
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Ending a corporation's right to exist if it is destructive to human beings sounds like self-preservation to me.
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Seen in this context, walking off the fiscal cliff is not so much a death wish as an act of national self-preservation.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was his instinct for self-preservation that led him to abandon his former friends and transfer his allegiance to the new rulers.
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In the end, truth is no match for economics and a misguided vision of self-preservation.
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The ship is sinking and nobody with a sense of self-preservation wants to stick around this mess anyway.
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When his usual cameraperson opts out of the trip, he notes this is out of concern for ‘self-preservation.’
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Starting like Plato from the theory of recurrent partial catastrophes, he offers an accourt of the gene - alogy of morals which is much more tough-minded than Plato's: man is distinguished from the other ani - mais only by his intelligence, which causes him to develop elementary ideas of right and wrong in the interests of self-preservation (6. 5-7).
PROGRESS IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY
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What seems to motivate Congress is self-preservation - a desire to get re-elected.
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The best protection will be his own sense of self-preservation.
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Otherwise a decreasing fraction of the flow would be turbulent, and, for example, self-preservation could not occur.
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The simplest form of our self-preservation instinct warns us of these possibilities.
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His natural instinct is self-preservation, but he always does the right thing in the end.
The Sun
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The senior executive who focuses only on externals out of a desire for self-preservation should be aware that those same self-preservation instincts should be directed internally, as well.
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Self-preservation demands for worker bees an existence of mindless uniformity.
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Their fatalism is tempered only by the drivers' acknowledgement that the need for speed is stronger than the instinct for self-preservation.
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I was still half-asleep, but some primitive sense of self-preservation told me to get off the balcony.
Day of Honey
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The police have the same human urge for self-preservation as the rest of us.
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It may already be too late to take the more open-handed British approach, and for reasons of self-preservation they may need to adopt an uncharacteristically guarded stance.
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Self-preservation is generally one of the highest priorities for well-paid grasses, and thirty pieces of silver was a lot of money.
Palm Sunday
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He had to watch himself, had to act like any common, worthless lackey for the sake of self-preservation until he had everything organized and put perfectly into place.
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Forest companies are naturally inclined to look after the state of their forests as a natural instinct to self-preservation.
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But the question is: Do they need what Churchill called a jarring gong of self-preservation?
CNN Transcript Nov 23, 2006
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It may already be too late to take the more open-handed British approach, and for reasons of self-preservation they may need to adopt an uncharacteristically guarded stance.
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It was his instinct for self-preservation that led him to abandon his former friends and transfer his allegiance to the new rulers.
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This was no ordinary fear, but a primordial fear that came from the very roots of humanity itself, the fear that formed the basis of the self-preservation instinct.
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The enemy was marching on the capital, and the instinctive craving for art had to yield to the brute instinct of self-preservation.
The Times Literary Supplement
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There is something in the institutional church that is so much engaged in self-preservation that it is going to destroy itself.
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Did I think that self-preservation, as a basic drive, would take precedence over everything else?
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I doubt whether the Scots, going it alone, would have developed the same ruthless instinct for self-preservation.
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What impels you to put aside the instinct for self-preservation and risk your lives to take these cliffs?
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His sense of self-preservation requires his conception to be veridical, and is threatened when it is disconfirmed.
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Einstein's theory of relativity was ostracized by many scientists in the cause of self-preservation, while quantum mechanics and cybernetics were virtually banned.
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It has deprived them of their instinct for political self-preservation.
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He discusses the psychological impact on troops torn between loyalty and self-preservation in this riveting tale.
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This is a moment when the instinct of self-preservation emits howls, when the beast re-appears in men.
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But there needed to be some character there, some instinct for self-preservation, a degree of imagination too.
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Some, as Telberg suggests, say it's self-preservation: the holders will be required to join whatever organization ultimately administers it.
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In its best sense it expresses an animal instinct of self-preservation.
