Sentence examples for benefiting themselves from inspiring English sources

And both have been accused by critics of pursuing deals that ended up benefiting themselves more than their shareholders.

To be sure, government ethics rules are supposed to stand in the way of Cabinet members directly benefiting themselves.

But other Council members argue that it would be unwise politically for them to support a measure that could certainly be seen as benefiting themselves.

Under the aegis of the fund, "they don't really have a way of benefiting themselves at the expense of other companies," but rather in assuring that the money gets disbursed as efficiently and fairly as possible.

Through voluntary exchange, people benefit others by benefiting themselves; as he wrote: "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

1 In most of these cases, the officials have secretly made governmental decisions with the objective of benefiting themselves or promoting their own interests, instead of fulfilling their legal commitment to provide the citizens of the State or local government with their loyal service and honest government.

"They benefit themselves instead of the country," he said.

And many of those taxpayers claim housing benefit themselves.

Religious beliefs, on this view, benefit neither us nor our genes; they benefit themselves.

And both sides will use the suffering of the civilians to benefit themselves".

All interest groups share a desire to affect government policy to benefit themselves or their causes.