Sentence examples for self advancement from inspiring English sources

I can see no other reason now for Sanders to so defiantly fight for a job and not concede, other than ego, loving the crowds, and self advancement.

Sometimes we lie for self-advancement.

In Azevedo's slum, self-advancement means taking more from others than you have paid for.

She specialises in playing flawed, often awful, characters whose main focus is self-advancement.

Are her motives more or less pure (if self-advancement can be seen as pure)?

These habits of self-advancement and energy were learned back home.

But prayer for me is not about self-help or self-advancement.

Ichabod Crane is quite poor, and his main interest is self-advancement.

Haycraft was, understandably, astounded by Fitzgerald's attitude, and put it down to cunning self-advancement, quite wrongly.

Although his father's fate must have been a dreadful warning, Kureishi looked to literature for self-enlightenment and self-advancement.

On the spectrum of misappropriation, using self-advancement as a lure seems forgivable enough if it leads people to try a technique as subtly transformative as mindfulness.