Sentence examples for selfish intentions from inspiring English sources
When he arrives in Cincinnati, he's bored in his hotel room and, to slake his boredom, he attempts to contact his former lover, with selfish intentions and unpleasant results.
There is the discipline of action (karma-yoga): in contrast to Buddhism, Jainism, and Samkhya philosophy, Krishna argues that it is not the acts themselves that bind but the selfish intentions with which they are performed.
"It's not that the people running our government had bad or selfish intentions," Schaaf told the Missouri Times when announcing his legislation.
However, Player 2 tends to modulate his responses substantially more for selfish intentions than for generous intentions.
First, in the trembling hand condition not a single subject subtracted the full $5 in response to a fair allocation, even when Player 1 had selfish intentions, suggesting that this value was not perceived as a limiting floor.
Maybe your friend comes over and has the coolest new cellphone,don't be jealous and beg your parents for one too,begging for stuff doesn't work, and makes your parents think that you have selfish intentions.
There was a significant effect of selfish intention (β3 = −1.85, t = −3.25, p<0.01), but no significant effect of generous intention (β4 = 0.75, t = 1.02, p = 0.31), and a marginally significant interaction between stingy intent and stingy outcome (β5 = −3.03, t = −1.91, p = 0.059) but no significant interaction between generous intention and generous outcome (β6 = −0.39, t = −0.29, p = 0.77).
We might do good things out of selfish intention, which does give either watered down good effects, or watered down negative results but still gives a result.
I think it's kind of that combination between selfish and selfless intentions — different factors are stronger at different points.
This assumption may not be valid in commercial wireless networks where terminals may misbehave for selfish or malicious intentions.
However, assumption on complete cooperation is broken by the facts that there exist relays that are attacked by the network attackers and misbehave for selfish or malicious intentions.
