For example, the importance of self interest (money, resources etc).
Liberals are for cooperation and joint effort; conservatives are for self-interest and selfishness.
Too often, the moral rhetoric of American diplomacy has seemed to Europe a cover for self-interest.
The Internet, the phones, they've brought attention to the society that is being used for self-interest".
It is true, as Lemann suggests, that governments and groups have traditionally invoked morality as a cover for self-interest.
Johnson, he said, "did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many... have made a cloak for self-interest".
Accusations are already flying that junior doctors, blind to the corrosive power of mistrust, are prepared to trade their patients' belief in them for self-interest.
These contradictory developments reflected a social protest against state support of the mujtahids, who manipulated the power to 'discipline' for self-interest and greed.
As the economy has soured, with unemployment around 13percentthethe legislature has developed a reputation for self-interest and incompetence.
For a Machiavellian, Burnham wrote, politics was an unending war for dominance: democracy was a myth, and all ideologies were thinly veiled rationalisations for self-interest.
Even allowing for self-interest, Mr. Olsen-Harbich's broad view of sauvignon blanc -- the "best white grape variety for the North Fork" -- and Raphael's 2003 version carries gravitas.
