Voorbeelden van self-seeking

• Real human beings are thinking agents and, as such, do not make decisions in the mechanical way that simple self-seeking (merely intentional) systems would.

• A generation of senior civil servants saw the state as socially beneficial, capitalism as self-seeking.

• This newer view of immune function is fundamentally formulated on self-seeking, self-organizing activity, whose structure is decentered from any bounded self.

• They engaged in interest-based self-seeking alongside principled debate.

• That objective, the author argues, distinguished the movement from all previous governments, which had been made up of the self-seeking, petit bourgeois heirs of colonial rule.

• The picture he draws serves the ironic tone of the interpretation marvelously: selfabsorbed academics at their ivory-tower games, fending off or capitalizing upon the silly impositions of equally self-seeking ministries.

• It is orchestrated, it is individual and it is cynically self-seeking.

• I respectfully say that they have shown an absence of self-seeking, which is, after all, no very common quality.

• There is no future solution of these problems when greed and self-seeking of that kind is part of the system of our society.

• It is not self-seeking, but seeking to be included.

• Perhaps the linkage was self-seeking and to some extent unrealistic.

• We need not be accused of self-seeking; matters are far too serious for any question of that kind.

• Members have not been self-seeking, deceitful or exercising their own private political views.

• It must breed cynicism and self-seeking in the economy.

• We have just heard a self-serving, self-seeking, sanctimonious and tawdry little speech.