Sentence examples for selfish aims from inspiring English sources

"Unfortunately, our American partners use such methods to achieve their selfish aims and illegally persecute people.

Putin concluded far from where he began, comparing the charges against Fifa officials to those against NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden: "Unfortunately, our American partners use such methods to achieve their own selfish aims, and in so doing illegally persecute people".

And if we keep one eye on those days and another on our own, Toll's book should make us nostalgic for a time when a president could muffle anxieties during a national emergency by simply declaring, "So we are going to win the war" — meanwhile persuading other American leaders to suspend selfish aims and playground quarrels for the sake of their country.

For the most part, the arguments focus on the incompatibility of his interlocutor' selfish aims with their better social insights.

Politics is not meant for the fulfillment of selfish aims and greed, but its sole purpose is selfless service.

They may think they are fighting against the excesses of big government, but the reality is they are mercenaries cheaply bought with corporate money to serve the selfish aims of big business.

As the poor world clearly cannot afford to pay for all this, the rich world must help partly for altruistic reasons, partly with the selfish aim of discovering in good time whether any global environmental calamities are in the making.

Their sole, selfish aim is to complete the transformation of the U.S. to a government of, by and for the rich and the far-right.

But instead of using his coming out to break down those walls, Spacey seems to have chosen to use the moment in service of a more selfish aim: self-preservation.

It sometimes became difficult to distinguish between the original guerrilla movement and opportunistic criminal gangs and drug lords who exploited chronic unrest to further their selfish, greedy aims.

Our analysis could then form the basis for advanced incentive schemes, which, instead of attempting to punish selfish behavior, would aim to encourage altruistic behavior under certain conditions.