Sentence examples for secondary gain from inspiring English sources

Or was she a neurotic narcotic-seeking depressive reaping secondary gain from her alleged pain?

There's a word for faking it in pursuit of what doctors call "secondary gain": malingering.

Whatever secondary gain the rest of us get out of it, Nora doesn't; she just leaves it alone.

And there is a secondary gain in the neighborhood: Drivers tend to slow down once their cars motor onto the pavers.

The second aim was to rule out secondary gain from organic laryngeal hypersensitivity.

The participant with possible secondary gain issues responded differently to the odors when presented nasally versus orally.

You always have to think about secondary gains: three hots and a cot.

In recent years, genome-wide screening of copy number alterations by comparative genomic hybridization and genomic microarray platforms have revealed a characteristic MCL profile of multiple secondary gains and losses as well as regions of copy number neutral loss of heterozygosity that target mainly genes involved in cell cycle regulation, DNA damage response, and cell survival pathways.

Secondary gains, however, are essentially the side-effects of the chronic polarization of this conflict: powerful allies offering material and political support [the Usupportoft of Israel and moderate Palestinians verses Iran's support for Palestinian militants such as Hamas], engaging in alluring narratives, public attention and useful alliances etc".

Yet for many practitioners of meditation these physiological effects are secondary gains, with the primary gain being spiritual transformation.

However, in the context of spiritual practice, these benefits are secondary gains, as the primary aim is spiritual transformation.