The Bush administration potentially brought personal harm to a C.I.A. agent for the administration's own self-serving purposes.
My teenage pupils were always deeply affronted by Lee's depiction of the Alabama ladies using scripture for their own self-serving purposes.
(Of course, there is the occasional P.R. person, corporation, politician or celebrity who tries to use Wikipedia for self-serving purposes).
"To keep order and focus, the State seeks this protective order on depositions to ensure our criminal justice system doesn't get used for these groups' self-serving purposes," he added.
If you believe that the police can be racist, corrupt and quite capable of harassing, murdering and smearing a young black man for their own self-serving purposes, her version of events may sound horribly credible.
But to claim that Nato and western security agencies are deliberately exaggerating the danger coming from Russia for self-serving purposes (such as pumping up their budgets) is simply side-stepping a problem that cannot be denied.
They cast a shadow of doubt and distrust over a huge field, raising questions about who is covertly pushing which bill and supporting which candidate, and for which self-serving purposes.
The currency crisis that has swept the region, all nine foreign ministers agreed in a joint communiqué, can be traced to the "well co-ordinated efforts to destabilise ASEAN currencies for self-serving purposes".It would be more useful to look closer to home.
"I am disappointed that Mr Heredia, who has never contacted Vada, is choosing to spread defamatory information regarding Vada for self-serving purposes".
It is performed for utterly self-serving purposes: to attain desperately craved validation.
