But this is something to do for its own sake, because the wellbeing of Israelis and Palestinians, plus America's own regional interests, demand it, not in order to evade an unsubstantiated charge of hypocrisy.
It is art for art's sake and because of this I consider it humanitarian.
He is on a diet, not for vanity's sake but because of a recent encounter with a scary illness.
Brown's tactics suggest that he thinks saving should be a priority for its own sake, not because of tax breaks.
In their view art education should be championed for its own sake, not because of a wishful sentiment that classes in painting, dance and music improve pupils' math and reading skills and standardized test scores.
Ten years later, the United States designated the old custom house a National Historic Site, not for its own sake but because of Federal Hall, the 18th-century building that had occupied the site.
A more satisfying answer is that investors think it's important, not for it's own sake, but because of what it tells them about the timetable for the first rise in official US interest rates.
For efficiency's sake and because of the likely positive spillover effect for a whole village, FXB takes on 80 to 100 families in a single area at one time.
I'm an American, for fuck's sake, but because of association I even question my writing in this column.
Muhammad Labib al-Batanuni, writing in 1911, commented that the pre-Islamic practice of venerating stones (including the Black Stone) arose not because such stones are "sacred for their own sake, but because of their relation to something holy and respected".
