Sentence examples for self-interested concerns from inspiring English sources

The profession has a responsibility to assure that its regulations are conceived in the public interest and not in furtherance of parochial or self-interested concerns of the bar.

And many student protests are about far less cosmic, more self-interested concerns, like the recent University of North Carolina march over budget cuts, or last weekend's demonstration at Boston University complaining that construction on a soccer field was a noisy disruption during exams.

Further, our study highlights the need to consider multiscale mechanisms other than those designed to appeal to self-interested concerns, such as regulations and material incentives, which are typically employed in devolved commons management to encourage participation.

There we noted that not every norm could be integrated with self-interested concerns into an all-things-considered set of judgments that satisfied the formal conditions of a preference.

But about half of the cases are based on a more self-interested concern: the fear that federal courts will be inundated with new cases and judges may have to work too hard to keep up with them.

Although prohibited from speaking on the record, investment bankers, traders and financial advisers quietly expressed disbelief, frustration and a bit of self-interested concern over what the write-down will do to their pay.

"Lobbying" seems self-interested, concerned with the ends more than the means, indifferent to the effects that our actions have on others.

Today, while he is grateful for the support and activism of South Asians in the city, he remains critical of what he sees as their sudden and self-interested surge of concern in hate crimes.

Another view is that we should imagine that people would be choosing a moral code on the basis of (a) full empirical information about the different effects on everyone, (b) normal concerns (self-interested as well as altruistic), and (c) roughly equal bargaining power (Brandt 1979; cf. Gert 1998).

My concern is self-interested.

Sometimes -- yes, sometimes -- when they cajole you for a story and preach to you about their absolute duty to the First Amendment, you sort of wonder whether all that concerns them is their self-interested duty to their own byline.