Sentence examples for selfish cause from inspiring English sources

Anxiety is quelled by the next section, which introduces Hector Brennan, a young man of modest means and education, from Ilion, New York, who blames himself for the drowning death of his father, and joins the Army as penance: "He sought a war not for the sake of fighting or killing anyone or defending his country, but for the selfish cause of punishing himself, and so proving his father right".

Supporting a family is not a selfish cause.

The bitcoin digital currency could be hijacked by "selfish miners" causing honest users to lose time, effort and money.

Transposable elements (TEs) are selfish elements that cause harmful mutations, contribute to the structure of regulatory networks and shape the architecture of genomes.

So, even as we combat evil without - fighting those whose selfish actions would cause ill - we cannot ignore two terrifying twin actualities: that something in ourselves collectively has allowed and enabled such forces to arise, and that somewhere within our own selves, however dimly, however differently, lurks something of them.

I heard that bisexual girls were 'crazy,' they were greedy, they were selfish and they caused drama.

This latter one highlights the demanding bratty personalities who expect everyone to cater to their often unreasonable and selfish whims, thus causing undue stress.

TEs have long been considered "selfish genes" for causing chromosomal breaks, deletions, or translocations [ 65].

So I'm here, poised, waiting to fill all those lovely gaps caused by selfish staffers who want holidays when their kids are off.

In addition, we find that the upper bound of unselfish behavior is limited and ordinal for different network topologies which, therefore, indicates large investment on SO is not an effective method to alleviate the traffic congestion caused by selfish behavior.

This special issue nonetheless has included the paper entitled "Distributed cooperative transmission with unreliable and untrustworthy relay channels".. Cooperative radio is subject to malicious attacks and performance degradation caused by selfish behaviors.