Sentence examples for self-serving ambitions from inspiring English sources
Frank Underwood, dating back throughout his made-up TV career, is of the school of "GSD" (Getting expletive Done), notwithstanding his own self-serving ambitions.
But in McCain's continuing self-dramatization it is duty that drives him, not the self-serving ambition that impels most politicians.
She argues for more American understanding of army views that, she says, are shaped more by fears about a dangerous region than by self-serving ambition.
He had no tolerance for those who only cared about money and self-serving ambition.
In the combination of the characters' empty social prattle, family ambitions, and manipulative and self-serving discourse in War and Peace, Putin would have seen Russian decadence and examples similar to contemporary cocktail parties of influential people and wannabes.
I know that a lot of people will ridicule her for having "fallen" for a killer's self-serving story; but no child's first ambition is to end up on death row having killed an innocent person.
His teachings are mysterious, filled with self-serving and impenetrable jargon about ethics and values, and defined by a blind-ambition ethos akin to that of the driven characters in an Ayn Rand novel.
They have tremendous will and determination -- whether one thinks it's self-serving or not -- and they are all driven by the master that is ambition.
Friends of the family liken that to his father's (unsuccessful) ambition in the 1980s to steer India away from increasingly corrupt and self-serving governance.
Scandal and failure have led people to distrust our institutions as self-serving and dictatorial, while a dependency culture has robbed some of the poorest of their ambition.
