Those who pass information to American diplomats, out of self-interest, conviction or goodwill, will be less open now.
We suspect this change of heart has been driven more by self-interest than conviction.
Self interest, of course.
Others are motivated by self interest.
It was enlightened economic self interest.
"Self interest will prevail.
But he also asks how any voter balances self-interest with patriotic conviction if the two are at odds — as they were when the General Grant who expelled Jewish citizens became Candidate Grant, courting Jewish votes for the presidency.
Some heroes of the Prague Spring in 1968 had been enthusiastic backers of the Stalinist regime's murderous purges after the communist putsch of 1948.Mr Hradilek surmises that Mr Kundera probably acted out of self-interest, not malice or conviction.
In debates on any issue affecting them, the arguments that corporations advance receive extraordinary consideration, even though we know full well that corporate views express not convictions but self-interest.
In short, Southerners were progressives and redistributionists less by ideological conviction than by self-interest.
But it is more and more clear the president is incapable of learning on the job, rising to the occasion, or speaking with any conviction other than self-interest.
