They need not deny that agents frequently benefit others, however, since the thesis can be preserved by holding that other-benefiting actions are nonetheless hedonistically motivated.
We were late for the geese migration, but the preserve held plenty of other surprises for us: ospreys, red-winged blackbirds, mallards and broad expanses of feathery marsh grass that bowed before the bay's breezes like wheat in a Kansas field.
As pantry items go, preserved lemons hold great intrinsic value.
The unity of the state must be preserved, he holds, by limiting the power of the church hierarchy.
All eyes were on those lopsided games while the real source of intrigue — the Dream Team's intrasquad scrimmages — went quietly documented, preserved, and held in the N.B.A.'s archives.
The nature of the δ15N of insoluble organic matter in preserved leaves holds promise and is the subject of our future work.
A portion of Albert Einstein's brain is preserved and held for medical research at the McMaster brain bank.
As President Obama churns towards a likely haul of over $700 million for the cycle, Democrats on the Hill, eager to retake the House and preserve their hold on the Senate, have asked for a little bit of the action, requesting a combined $30 million in transfers from the Democratic National Committee, which raised $108 million last year with help from Mr. Obama.
Some argue that Democrats can preserve their hold on the Senate by running a brilliant turnout operation that ignores such swing voters, concentrating instead on getting people who would not ordinarily vote to the polls.
And as long as the Palestinian partner was not going to cooperate with Israel in allowing it to proceed with an illegal policy of settlement, the Sharon government had to find other ways to preserve its hold on the land.
