Sentence examples for Disinterested action from inspiring English sources
But in a world that is now less ideologically divided than it was, there are plenty of issues on which the Security Council should be able to reach agreement and take disinterested action.
The central teaching of the Bhagavad-Gita, for example, is not "selfless... duty," which sounds like Protestant noblesse oblige, but the more demanding Hindu practice (yoga) of disinterested action, which requires renunciation of the fruits of any deed.
It was, however, one of the most gallant, generous, manly and disinterested Actions of my whole Life, and one of the best Pieces of Service I ever rendered my Country".
As David McCullough recounts in his biography of Adams, the second President later recalled his role in the case as "one of the most gallant, generous, manly and disinterested actions of my whole life, and one of the best pieces of service I ever rendered my country".
The critics' contention is sim ply that with disinterested boards, action would have been more decisive and progress faster.
It's an achingly real family melodrama first and a comic book flick second, and thus works as a triumph even for those disinterested in the super-powered action fantasy elements.
Against Hobbesian egoism a number of British moralists preeminently Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, and Hume argued that, while a judgment of virtue is a matter of taking pleasure in response to an action or trait, the pleasure is disinterested, by which they meant that it is not self-interested (Cooper 1711, 220 223; Hutcheson 1725, 9, 25 26; Hume 1751, 218 232, 295 302).
Pastoralists already have a strong stewardship ethic (Greiner and Gregg 2011) and this class of stakeholders is not disinterested in environmental outcomes that flow from their decision making actions that are largely centred on production issues (e.g. Green and MacLeod 2002).
"They're deadpan, disinterested.
And one remains lovingly disinterested.
