Schama's preferred parallel is the Korean war, another conflict America entered professing altruistic aims, but exited with its nose bloodied.
Now, here is where the program's seemingly altruistic aims intersect with the capitalistic interests of its targeted demographic.
Whether this could also reflect compassionate or altruistic aims is more debatable.
Our analysis could then form the basis for advanced incentive schemes, which, instead of attempting to punish selfish behavior, would aim to encourage altruistic behavior under certain conditions.
Having seen that the original vinyl pressing sold like hot cakes and was going for big bucks, Aim got all altruistic and decided it was time for a re-press, so he hooked up with ATIC and got the ball rolling.
As the poor world clearly cannot afford to pay for all this, the rich world must help partly for altruistic reasons, partly with the selfish aim of discovering in good time whether any global environmental calamities are in the making.
An open, critical approach is vital if we are to preserve public trust and the altruistic goodwill of donors, with the aim of safeguarding the expansion of the living kidney transplant program.
The Zebrafish GenomeWiki is a 'wiki'-based resource, which aims to provide an altruistic shared environment for collective annotation of the zebrafish genes.
Traditional lost-and-founds are migrating online, and a batch of start-ups and hobby Web sites have sprouted with the aim of harnessing people's altruistic impulses to return lost items.
The aim of these ideas was altruistic and humanitarian, but these aims were to be achieved by relying on reason and suppressing entirely the spontaneous outflow of Christian pity and compassion.
