Here, a person hopes for a return -- some sought of personal gain or advancement -- and the measure of effectiveness is "usefulness". Here, a person immerses himself in a shared experience with another person.
There was no suggestion of any kind of personal gain.
Ferguson apparently was ever alert to the possibility of personal gain.
In 1973 he granted the works collected by him since 1913 to Konya Municipality with no thought of personal gain.
Poorer families, in other words, are more community driven, which might be undercutting their chances of personal gain.
At the same time, interpreting such conflict as suggestive of personal gain, he rejects charges made against him.
Offering a small gift to my child seemed something the clerk did happily and openly, with no thought of personal gain or deception.
It gives her a chance to start in a new direction that will encourage voters to feel that she will put public service ahead of personal gain.
These affirmed the worst of an opportunistic Somali lumpen-elite: civic degeneration and a retribalisation of everything in pursuit of personal gain.
One of the conventions of time-travel movies is that it can't turn out well if the character is doing it for any kind of personal gain.
Not because I think you should backstab allies for the sake of personal gain, but because the whipsaw hysteria of the Tea Party probably needs such mercenary leavening.
