We are currently in need of a nationwide, REQUIRED, plan of action that is carefully crafted to provide important remedies for some of the many problems that have consistently plagued us who try to follow the less traveled path to the Ph.D., sometimes to our self-detriment.
He realized that government officials were motivated by greed and self interest to the detriment of their fellow citizens and to their environment, opening his eyes to the hypocrisy, deceit and cover ups on every bureaucratic and government level in his adopted land.
The lawsuit, which is pending, says that through C.V. Starr and Starr International, the publicly traded A.I.G. engaged in self-dealing to the detriment of its shareholders.
When separating wage employment in formal and informal (columns 2 and 3), the findings reveal an increase in the shares of formal and informal wage employment in detriment of self-employment among men.
The 'virtues', the social skills, attitudes, and character-traits that characterized most of the citizens of his time, were all too often geared to their possessors' wealth, power, and self-indulgence, to the detriment of public morality and the community's well-being.
Putting journalists and "sources" in the same secret room together does not serve a greater good, it merely services both parties self-interest to the detriment of the readers and their news.
You will announce legislation forbidding Members of Congress from ever lobbying Congress--ever--indicating the noble choice of public service should not be polluted by a subsequent self-service to the detriment of that same public.
I laughed frequently, probably to the detriment of my self-respect.
He was accommodating, sometimes to the detriment of proper self-respect, but he was certainly not the lazy, absent-minded simpleton that superficial observers took him for.
The institute is certainly aware of concerns in the late 2000s that it was resting on its laurels — sitting up on its mountain with an air of self-importance, perhaps to the detriment of its mission: to discover and nurture new voices in the areas of film and theater and to introduce audiences to their work.
Dan Clifton Hurst, Berkshire The issue of a "glass floor" created by well-off parents to ensure their children succeed regardless of their ability (Opinion, 27 July), by offering better career guidance and encouraging self-confidence and leadership to the detriment of less-advantaged families, must be tackled in school.
