Sentence examples for a self preservation from inspiring English sources

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Brooks has a very good gig going for himself, and displaying his intellectual balls at every given opportunity is clearly a self preservation technique designed to prolong and protect his professional career.

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This is a self-preservation instinct in me".

It may sound very horrible, but it comes down to a self-preservation thing".

Initially he counterposed a libidinal drive that seeks sexual pleasure to a self-preservation drive whose telos is survival.

We were lucky she had enough of a self-preservation instinct to see a school counsellor who got her to see the GP.

He insisted he was a "nice person" who was capable of empathising with those whose lives he had ruined, but that he had chosen not to as a self-preservation technique.

The decider was being made part of a self-preservation firewall built by a senior management team determined to shield itself from a case that went wrong and in which I had some involvement.

And change is, on balance, hazardous for the next incumbent of an office built on mystical tradition and continuity.Prince Charles's adherence to traditional ways is understandable as a self-preservation mechanism, and has served him well when it comes to making biscuits.

However, the type of processes that are initiated depends on the levels of IGF-1, with low levels sending the body into a self-preservation mode, switching energy allocation away from the reproductive organs and devoting resources to maintenance and DNA repair.

But practically, from a self-preservation standpoint, they could well be quite right.

In that sense, self-policing shows both empathy for its users' mental health, but is also a self-preservation strategy.

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