How To Use Self-seeking In A Sentence
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Atrocities are happening all over the world due to the self-righteous, self-seeking gratification of particular groups.
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Well, it is about time we had some celebrities honoured and it is about time that the self-seeking nonentities who inhabit City Hall acknowledged this and honoured some.
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It always has a strong connection of the act of the behavioral agent and this kind of act contains using privilege, abusing rights, scrimshank and self-seeking misconduct.
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As regards the tests that a youth must pass before he can get a degree, I found that they have no class lists, and discourage anything like competition among the students; this, indeed, they regard as self-seeking and unneighbourly.
Erewhon
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To carry patriotism to the edge of chauvinism is to abandon the discipline of thought, which is the only safeguard against self-seeking patriotism.
Canada, the Crown and Chauvinism
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But in the very same essay, Macaulay supposes Bacon the man to be thoroughly deceitful, self-seeking, and lacking in moral fibre.
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I ventured feebly to say that I did not see how progress could be made in any art or science, or indeed in anything at all, without more or less self-seeking, and hence unamiability.
Erewhon
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My point is that even such self-seeking requires a considerable amount of common culture.
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But in the very same essay, Macaulay supposes Bacon the man to be thoroughly deceitful, self-seeking, and lacking in moral fibre.
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Despite his predilection for this sort of self-seeking behaviour, there are many who don't want him to jump.
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One obituary notes that "he won the respect of all by his wide sympathy, his justice, his never-failing kindness, and his complete lack of self-seeking."
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Some have entered the field for largely self-seeking reasons, although such individuals seldom excel.
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To make room for them, items such as debates about the self-seeking behavior of the Church could be made into footnotes or appendices.
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For the scientific democrats the most salient fact of American life during the Gilded Age was the spread of egoistic and self-seeking behavior.
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But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.
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I had never seen so many insidious, self-seeking agendas.
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All in all, this self-seeking sojourn has been gratifying.
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They were accused of self-seeking and corruption.
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It is the mask that the politically covetous wear to hide their self-seeking agenda.
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His failure to effect reform or root out corruption after Walpole's fall was thought by many to reveal factiousness and self-seeking and he was accused of avarice.
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He said that democracy would open the way for self-seeking politicians to abuse the situation.
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Richard Williams is unarguably an annoyingly self-seeking exhibitionist basking in the warm glow of his off-springs' efforts; a confrontational egotist who is an argument waiting to happen.
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When a bunch of self-seeking careerists find themselves in positions of influence, is it any wonder things turn out to be such a mess?
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Cooperation and love, they are taught, are beautiful ideals best left to the church, synagogue, or mosque, but in the real world we will encounter people driven by self-seeking needs and we had better do the same.
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The level of acrimony is so widespread and acute that it's impossible to dismiss those involved as disgruntled former employees, disillusioned leftists or self-seeking turncoats.
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He said that democracy would open the way for self-seeking politicians to abuse the situation.
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This excellent pair of companion volumes presents the story of how the events of the Civil War forged a community where there had previously been a disparate and self-seeking collection of individuals.
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You wonder what the point of promises are when they're only used to mask self-seeking behaviour.
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So he who would not exploit or contribute to the cause of war must cease to follow tradition, cease to be greedy, ambitious, self-seeking.
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O'Grady's accounts of the Elizabethan wars find heroism only among the ordinary members of the warrior class as brave and honest pawns sacrificed to the intrigues of their self-seeking leaders.
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There is in fact no great demand for Britain's self-seeking managers in the rest of Europe, for example (where in any case salary levels tend to be lower).
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“Evolutionism” has tried to become an establishmentarianism institution, though lacks the fundamental scientific basis for reality and credibility, despite repeated religious fervor by individuals who want to distance themselves from their fellow humans, for their own self-seeking purposes.
Tangled Bank #71 - The Panda's Thumb
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Rather, it creates an institutional framework in which, to get ahead in their economic engagements, even people who grow up entirely self-seeking and anti-social must attend to the general social good and the well-being of others.
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So he who would not exploit or contribute to the cause of war must cease to follow tradition, cease to be greedy, ambitious, self-seeking.
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The court party retorted that the country party members were either secret Jacobites or self-seeking careerists, making trouble for their own ends.
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The depredations of philistine governments and ignorant, self-seeking bureaucrats are not the sole cause of the changes I have witnessed in academic literary studies.
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Again, these relations were widely envisaged by social scientists as becoming individualistic, self-seeking, competitive and anonymous.
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Fair, not self-seeking and with initiative on work.
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The union's betrayals have not merely been the product of the cowardice of a few self-seeking union leaders.
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Government is required because acting man cannot negotiate agreements effectively with other self-seeking acting men.
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elevator: `Free from self-seeking, envy, low design, I have not found a whiter soul than thine.
NOTHING TO WEAR AND NOWHERE TO HIDE: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES
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A civilization which values -- and indeed consistently rewards -- aggression and reckless self-seeking rather than team work, ethical conduct, conciliation and compassion will end up despoiling the earth for short term profit, going to war for oil and economic dominance, creating an obscenely rich 1 percent at the expense of an increasingly impoverished 99 percent -- and, perhaps worst of all, it will produce unprecedented levels of human misery and spiritual unfulfillment.
Richard Schiffman: Nice Guys Finish Last -- Or Do They?
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Zambians should be commended for ignoring the flopped demonstration organised by frustrated and self-seeking politicians who were hoping to gunner some political capital out of the ill-conceived exercise.
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He said that democracy would open the way for self-seeking politicians to abuse the situation.
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It is the mask that the politically covetous wear to hide their self-seeking agenda.
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I ventured feebly to say that I did not see how progress could be made in any art of science, or indeed in anything at all, without more or less self-seeking, and hence unamiability.
Erewhon; or, Over the range
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It is an old truth that lack of understanding and sheer stupidity are causing more harm and suffering in the world than wickedness and self-seeking.
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Eden was a capable man of business and an agreeable companion but acquired a reputation for self-seeking.
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Coriolanus charts the destructive contest between a vain aristocratic soldier and the self-seeking patricians who claim to represent the masses.
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But if ever martyr were worthy of being called a partaker of the sufferings of Christ it was surely this girl, free, if ever human creature was, from self-seeking, or thought of reward, or ambitious hope, in whose heart there had never been any motive but the service of God and the deliverance of her country, who had neither looked before nor after, nor put her own interests into consideration in any way.
Jeanne d'Arc
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This is indeed regrettable, because politicians who act only in their own partisan, self-seeking interest are doing nothing other than letting their country down.
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Let us turn from selfishness and deceit, from self-pity and self-seeking to discover the spirit of God which is the true spirit of thanksgiving, dedication and commitment.