Sentence examples for self-serving purposes from inspiring English sources

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).

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.

"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.

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.

Sure, it may have been a partially self-serving purpose, but Jellicoe believed in her ideals and didn't care whom she inconvenienced by pursuing them.

It really is, but the British discourse on migration and asylum has long been awash with conflations of the two, usually for the most self-serving of purposes – and over the last 20 or so years the politics of all this has become hopelessly contorted.

Yet Facebook does already share plenty of data between WhatsApp and its other companies for all sorts of self-serving, business-enhancing purposes — and even including, as it couches it, "to ensure safety and security".

Citation may be used for self serving purposes 311 or as a tool for persuasion 312 (see web extra note 14).

But it's always troubling when, given a tool that can very easily be used for both humanitarian purposes and self-serving ones, we only hear about the former.