Sentence examples for self-serving things from inspiring English sources

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Self-serving things first.

When the geeks do stoop from time to time to charitable work, they tend to do self-serving things such as providing local schools with free computers.It may just be a question of timing: the new ultra-rich got that way very suddenly, and have had little time yet to spend their money.

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For foreigners, Lyndon said there's a limited window to break into the Chinese mobile gaming market (which might be a bit of a self-serving thing to say).

The bigger clubs will welcome a midwinter break; they might need to welcome some less self-serving alterations if things are to really change.

I said, 'Won't it be some strange self-serving photo op thing?' But it seemed to mean a lot for some guy they know like me to come and say thank you".

It means that you give up the "self-serving bias" where when things go well it's because you did something well and when things go wrong it's because of an outside force.

"Some of that is misinterpreted as self-serving, or an ego thing," Mr. Von Essen continued.

So even if you want to be self-serving, this is the thing to do".

"This is not a self-serving ethnic kind of thing," she said.

It's just self-serving, arrogant people saying stupid things.

That would be good for all living things, including self-serving humans.

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