Sentence examples for selfish interests from inspiring English sources

The emperor and the feudal lords exploited the conflicts to promote their selfish interests.

Each of the Middle Eastern actors has naturally selfish interests in fighting ISIS.

They take immediate selfish interests and enmesh them within transcendent, spiritual meanings.

Watergate has confirmed the dangers of policies that exclude the public and welcome the secret influence of selfish interests.

A market economy assumes that all agents (employers, workers, buyers, sellers) act in their own selfish interests.

We might wish that public servants would work simply to maximize public welfare, but selfish interests often infect decision making.

Woodrow Wilson certainly projected onto a world stage his passionate commitment to democracy and to victory over selfish interests.

List their titles and roles in the organization, and hypothesize about the selfish interests that motivate them to buy.

Then again, that's as natural as the rivalries because each franchise is interested primarily in its own selfish interests.

Specifically, within directed reciprocation cooperation is thought to be maintained when partners prevent one another from pursuing their own selfish interests ("cheating"), such as retaliation against cheating.

They are "producers" programmed to serve their own selfish interests.