Sentence examples for self-serving opposition from inspiring English sources
Lip service to federalism before the war united the disparate self-serving opposition parties to oust Saddam Hussein -- a means to an end.
Such alarmism may be compelling to some - and it's a logical, self-serving narrative for an opposition party looking to pick up more votes.
But the argument is also self-serving: the absence of an effective opposition makes it unhealthily easy for Mr Museveni and his National Resistance Movement to win elections.So Ugandans were surprised to hear last week that Mr Museveni has decided to allow parties after all.
Still, Mr. Bohn said, he realizes that the residents' opposition to either development is somewhat self-serving.
Your unrelenting opposition and sabotage of this country's small business programs is self-serving, unpatriotic and clearly not in the best interests of the American people.
Moreover, Elections Canada presented the idea to elected officials "at an opportune time, when both government and the main opposition parties found the arguments for change especially compelling and indeed self-serving".
ELIZABETH NEWTON Boise, Idaho, Aug. 3, 2011 To the Editor: Mark Bittman criticizes the food industry's opposition to proposed interagency guidelines on marketing to children, and calls self-regulation "self-serving".
The main problem, it appeared, was the lack of a credible opposition fueled by the fact that all the main political parties labor under similar allegations of self-serving graft and opportunism.
