Mr. Halberstam suggested that Mr. Ishihara was unusually "self-interested" for a Japanese executive, saying that he "nakedly wanted the credit".
(This abnegation is also self-interested, for in the Tour the monarch is also a cash crop, his prize money being divided among the team at the race's end).
But to the extent that Mr. Obama gets his message across more effectively, he hands Republicans the unenviable choice or either joining him in a comprehensive solution or looking self-interested for backing away and imperiling the economy.
The treasurer said it was self-interested for Labor to complain about Treasury costing opposition policies when it had engaged in exactly the same practice when it was last in government, when Wayne Swan was treasurer.
At the outset, these practices were both virtuous and self-interested for the United States -- encouraging industrialization in poor countries, binding cold war allies together with trade and investment, furthering the global advance of American business and finance.
All those years spent being told to comb Barbie's hair rather than play rough and tumble with the boys have made many of us overly mindful of our own affability – but now we've got proof that being too gracious is costing us cold hard cash, perhaps we can peel the fake smiles off our faces and get self-interested for a change.
On the other hand, the "negative path" is contractive, selfish and self-interested for power and control.
Who can blame us for being self-interested, for wanting to hold on to what we have while we still can?
While experts point to the benefits of diversity — from children learning each others' languages to gaining an appreciation for other walks of life — a more self-interested reason for Mesa Verde parents to become involved in their neighborhood campuses might their home values.
There are self-interested reasons for Corbyn to take it on.
Those are self-interested reasons for sticking with the EU: we will be better off in.
