Sentence examples for selfish purpose from inspiring English sources
"He built on good relationships with those groups for the selfish purpose of peace in Davao," he said.
"We have no interest, no advantage or no conceivable selfish purpose in any form of car crash with Hong Kong's sovereign master, China.
He renounces the Ring not for any selfish purpose, not even to gain enlightenment, yet it nevertheless transforms him profoundly.
Watching her choose her words carefully, you didn't get the impression that it was for a selfish purpose.
The connection between a politician and the financial interests that secure him are deeper than mere utility or selfish purpose.
Oligarchy is generally defined as "a small group that exercises control especially for corrupt and selfish purposes".
"Columbia was taking over the Harlem side of the park for its own selfish purposes, segregating the park".
HSBC's Douglas Flint has already called a potential exit from Europe a thoroughly bad thing, largely for the selfish purposes of his bank.
Is Europe's social democracy going to impose austerity for ever or, even if only for the selfish purposes of survival, actually begin to fight it?
In the crown prosecution's closing submissions at her trial on Thursday, Mark Tedeschi QC told the New South Wales supreme court that Monis was "quite prepared to place [Droudis] in extreme danger for his own selfish purposes".
He distrusted most politicians (he regretted not being able to murder his own vice-president), and disliked the "rich and powerful" – despite being a rich and powerful slave-owner himself – who "too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes".
