Here, then, is heresy: maybe there is no one in charge — no independent, self-serving, order-issuing homunculus.
As most writers know, the best editors tend to curtail those characteristics of the artist which are the weakest and the most self-serving, in order to free him or her from the prison of egocentricity.
It is an article of faith among some Democrats that liberals give money to politicians for altruistic reasons, whereas Republicans make campaign contributions as self-serving investments, in order to protect future profits.
That could be the ultimate "conspiracy theory": I goaded the Hilton into a deceptive, self-serving campaign in order to oppose it, so that I could kick off a potential reelection campaign.
Manipulation of search results, for self-serving preferencing and de-preferencing, in order to promote political friends and allies, and to harm or hide opponents and Google's own misdeeds, could still be a problem.
We specifically selected three published datasets and compared RNAG's performance to the published performance of other methods in order to avoid self-serving selection biases and biases that can arise with less than ideal application of extant methods.
Those claims are self-serving because banks often issue garnishment orders to each other.
This was reason enough to wonder about the man; yet it was not completely unreasonable for a Federal official to carry out the orders -- however self-serving, in a cover-up possibly criminal -- of a sitting president.
I am always troubled by the use of cheap historical analogies in order to make a self-serving point in the moment.
But the Senate has done nothing, largely because of a self-serving agreement that breakaway Democrats made in December in order to share power with the Republicans.
People may use self-serving bias to maintain a socially-desirable public image in order to maintain and strengthen self-esteem.
