Sentence examples for self-serving behaviors from inspiring English sources

Similar mechanisms suppress self-serving behaviors within groups, so that the balance between levels of selection tilts heavily in favor of between-group selection.

Gluttony might be innocuous were it not for the fact that gluttons tend to disregard whether their self-serving behaviors harm anyone else.

Pride: The debtly sin of pride is the hubris that makes companies and their leaders arrogant and overconfident about their own self-serving behaviors.

In the wake uncertainty in life and in society, many people turn to violence, anger, bitterness, or self-serving behaviors.

Gooding threatening Shapiro over his self-serving behavior never lands as intended.

(There follows the prominently self-serving behavior of a porcine businessman; the people or, rather, "the people"—remain uniformly brave and heroic).

If anything, Mr. Ferrer's self-serving behavior since the primary has made me regret my vote for him and my contribution to his campaign.

If I want to see self-serving behavior, warped decision-making, dangerous rationalizations and chuckleheads mortgaging the future, I can go back to watching Congress.

But Simonov slowly grew remorseful over his cowardly, self-serving behavior and near the end of his life took it upon himself to produce a candid and startling memoir about his career, a decision vividly described by Figes.

Adam Smith's theory of the invisible hand, which says that market forces harness self-serving behavior for the common good, assumes that markets are competitive, and most markets have in fact become more competitive over time.

The U.S.O.C. has a constituency of 28 Olympic sports and a dozen affiliated sports, along with a volunteer base that is often slow and reluctant to make change, that is consumed by internal politics and is prone to self-serving behavior.