Sentence examples for selfish actions from inspiring English sources

The most altruistic-sounding programs can inspire the most selfish actions, as illustrated in a line that gets a laugh from the Soprano mafiosi during the finale.

Ryanair's chief marketing officer, Kenny Jacobs, said: "It's unacceptable that Europe's consumers repeatedly have their holiday and travel plans disrupted or cancelled by the selfish actions of ATC unions every summer, who use strikes as a first weapon rather than a last resort.

The setting lets Wyndham expound on the themes that thread through all his sci-fi classics, from The Day of the Triffids to Chocky; man's place in the ecosystem and the damage his selfish actions have on the planet and himself.

But he expressed his frustration at the "distasteful, shameful and selfish actions of a mindless minority".

Since, for Buddhists, the self is unreal, this is a mistaken imposition, and of course many ignorant, selfish actions follow from this fundamental conceptual error.

Though there are several kinds of misbehaviors that could be captured by promiscuous hearing, we are focusing only on selfish actions - dropping packets and not transmitting packets.

Selfish action imprisons the world.

Laozi used the term broadly with simplicity and humility as key virtues, often in contrast to selfish action.

We point out that this manipulation need not have been "selfish": male favouring factors would increase by natural selection when countering the selfish action of female favouring factors.

Cooperative dynamics in which two partners have their selfish interests aligned in opposition to a third (parasitic) party, can provide a stabilizing force that helps maintain cooperation between species, that is neither a by-product (e.g. coincident of a selfish action), nor directed reciprocation.

Above these, most economists since Adam Smith have believed, stands the invisible hand of the market, guiding selfish human actions to serve the common good.Is there something missing from the list?