Exempel på self-serving

• Factions within parties, alignments and realignments within parties, and self-serving coalitions further worsened matters.

• The imperial regime's account is, of course, self-serving and must be viewed within the context of the time.

• Such terms hardly befit a collaborator of empire or a spineless, self-serving monarch.

• Secondly, they permit citizens to hold their representatives accountable and to punish them if they enrich themselves in corrupt or self-serving ways.

• Process, not outcomes (especially outcomes sought by self-serving groups elsewhere), is what we should aim at in countries that lack democratic ways.

• We can equally dismiss a posteriori rationalizations of design intent as self-serving, and atomistic efforts to include intent as overly strong representation.

• Indeed, as she mentioned earlier, prudence is about right reasoning, in order to apply good means to good ends, not necessarily self-serving ends.

• And yet it does not seem plausible to attribute to mere self-serving cynicism all complaint that appeals to such principles.

• Second, the existence of the stated purpose does not necessarily make faith ultimately self-serving.

• Be assured that this is no plodding monograph with self-serving accounts of project after project.

• All she need do is quote them, for her passages of choice are markedly "muscular," self-serving, and absurd.

• To this extent, it is not so much a question of physicians making intentional, self-serving decisions.

• It would also be a nightmare, as perceptual error and self-serving criteria made indeterminate lights seem green enough to go for orthogonal travelers.

• They sought to tie interest to duty through institutional mechanisms to thwart destructive, self-serving passions and to secure the public good.

• It is therefore particularly unforgivable for the archaeological establishment to exploit these privileges in self-serving ways.