Sentences with phrase «more self serving»

So as good as Dale and Rogers might look in the media, ultimately the direction they have taken is more self serving than it is consumer driven and consumers will ultimately determine how succesful they are.

Psychology professor Jeffrey Lohr and Aimee King and Deena Austin - Oden (psychology graduates) found that the claims are more self serving than anything else.

You may want to read Paul's letters to the Galation's, a more self serving, arrogant pile of crap you may ever read.

It seems to be more self serving than humanity serving.

Not exact matches

Nothing looks more cheesy and self - serving than brands trying to take every single trending hashtag and relate back to themselves.

In his self - serving excess, Trump is more like Hearst, the don of news fakers, who knew that creating or condemning fake news drove news cycles and profits — damn the consequences.

Putting funds into self - serving cause marketing is fine and all, but telecom companies can make much more of a difference to the population in general by devoting charity to their core strengths.

The important takeaway is that looking at every ad means effectively killing self - serve, which not only kills Facebook's revenue model, but, far more importantly, removes a truly accessible and disruptive advertising channel for small and medium businesses, particularly those uniquely enabled by the Internet.

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are crucial aspects of any self - driving system, but the company expects the AI lab to serve across various departments as it begins to automate more of its services — including its logistics and routing platform.

Menchie's is a self - serve frozen yogurt franchise that serves a delicious frozen dessert, but more importantly, we serve up smiles.

A more hypocritical and self - serving objection would be hard to invent, considering the gun lobby's historic domination of the Legislature.

These days there's more and more technology coming out (think chatbots and automated self - serve kiosks) that offer businesses the opportunity to engage at new levels of personalization.

«Anthony Levandowski's supposed excuse for downloading more than 14,000 confidential Waymo files was self - serving and more than just suspicious — it was entirely made - up,» a Waymo spokesperson said in a statement.

... they are self serving trash that behave more like Nazis than Christians!

Second, many are not demonstrating more disciplined reason, as they are falling all over them selves to embrace many types of spirituality which are completely baseless and clearly entirely self - serving.

Her history is more interesting than the present reality and any allegiance to her is not awe and worship but self serving nepotism.

How to become stronger, more inclined to do the loving, courageous, honest thing rather than the self - serving one?

In this process we will learn more and more about our bondage to self - serving and imprisoning desire.

On the more practical and self - serving side, we need to recognize that we will pay for our neglect of the those who are the most vulnerable.

As the large communications empires become more centralized and more powerful, they also become more self - serving, until today — as with the great iron and steel and railway and oil trusts in the l890s — they threaten the welfare of the entire society.

By serving others, you serve yourself by moving from ego to your higher, and extremely more intelligent, Self.

These queries demand answers, for my self - understanding, my sense of worth, my identity and my community have been wrapped up with fulfilling what I have believed to be an appropriate and vital response to God's calling, to serve God by serving the church, and more precisely to do so in the field of theological education.

To counter this tendency we may on the other hand attempt to develop a more critical, descriptive, naturalistic account of the relation between mind and nature, thereby avoiding the purely logical demands of system and the self - serving rule of reason.

How much more self - serving can we be?

To prepare for mission, in this view of things, would require the members of a congregation to discount their self - serving stuff, attempting to slough it off in order to offer their more recognizably Christian hopes and actions, such as the grace and love witnessed in their Communion, to other people.

We are made aware of powerful impulses, whose true import we don't understand, precisely because they are recognizably different from the more basic and strictly self - serving desires for food, drink, and rest, with their strictly private satisfactions.

A less self - serving and probably more ecumenical approach would be for liberals to wait for evangelicals themselves to answer this question.

Moreover, the results seem compatible with the hypothesis that religious values serve more as standards for condemning others or as standards to rationalize one's own self pursuits than as standards to judge oneself by or to guide one's own conduct.

This is nowhere more vividly stated than in Psalm 82, in which the general self - serving notion of godhood is harshly rejected.

In fact I long ago gave up the notion that the god of genocide and eternal damnation portrayed in the bible represents anything more than a barbaric peoples self serving justification of their barbaric ways.

On the mystique's terms the pastorate too can be a trap frustrating the minister's need for fulfillment as a person, a prison in which all his work, even the care of those who present themselves as the wounded of the world, may be no more than institutionally self - serving trivia.

The pastorate can be a trap frustrating the ministers need of fulfillment as a person — a prison in which all of the minister's work may be no more than institutionally self - serving trivia.

The danger, therefore, is that I'll trade one self - serving self - deception for another, more fashionable one.

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The state's propensity to assign individuals identities through voter registration lists and social security numbers or more generally to reinforce conceptions of individual rights serves as an example; the roles of educational systems (through individualized test scores) and professional careers (organized around cumulative skills attached to the individual's biography) provide further examples.7 This work is important because it shows the dependence of self - constructs on markers in the culture at large: the self is understood not only in terms of internal development but also as a product of external reinforcement.

... a story about how we realized that one day we could actually be related and hang out even more... mwahahahahaha... But, our kids usually read these posts, and we figured they'd be shocked, outraged and utterly embarrassed if we told you how we planned to leverage their futures for our own self - serving gains.)

Certain foods that are eaten over several eating occasions such as whole cakes or loaves of bread, as well as foods that are not self - serve and intended for more than one person to eat or that require additional preparation before consuming, such as deli salads sold by weight and deli meats, are also not covered because they are not considered «restaurant - type foods».

Each beverage company will provide calorie counts, and promote calorie awareness on all beverage company - controlled point - of - sale equipment nationwide, including more than 3 million vending machines, self - serve fountain dispensers, and retail coolers in convenience stores, restaurants and other locations.

About this recipe: Serves 6 - 10 approx (depending on portion size and how much self - discipline and exceptional restraint you can muster...);) This recipe is a treat from Pamela, so head over to her blog for more vegan and Free - From recipe ideas!

The idea that «anybody can beat anybody» in the English top flight is a self - serving fallacy, perpetrated by those who have a fundamental interest in pretending that it is so: the Premier League itself, with the help of Sky, the BBC, and various of the more reductive and boneheaded mainstream media outlets.

there is no doubting that Arsene has helped to provide us with some incredible footballing moments in the formative years of his managerial career at Arsenal, but that certainly doesn't and shouldn't mean that he has earned the right to decide when and how he should leave this club... there have been numerous managers at each of the biggest clubs in Europe throughout the last decade who have waged far more successful campaigns than ours yet somehow and someway each were given their walking papers because they failed to meet the standards laid out by the hierarchy of their respective clubs... of course that doesn't mean that clubs should simply follow the lead of others, especially if clubs of note have become too reactionary when it comes to issues of termination, for whatever reasons, but there should be some logical discourse when it comes to the setting of parameters for a changing of the guard... in the case of Arsenal, this sort of discourse was largely stifled when the higher - ups devised their sinister plan on the eve of our move to the Emirates... by giving Wenger a free pass due to supposed financial constraints he, unwittingly or not, set the bar too low... it reminds me of a landlord who says he will only rent to «professional people» to maintain a certain standard then does a complete about face when the market is lean and vacancies are up... for those who rented under the original mandate they of course feel cheated but there is little they can do, except move on, especially if the landlord clearly cares more about profitability than keeping their word... unfortunately for the lifelong fans of a football club it's not so easy to switch allegiances and frankly why should they, in most cases we have been around far longer than them... so how does one deal with such an untenable situation... do you simply shut - up and hope for the best, do you place the best interests of those with only self - serving agendas above the collective and pray that karma eventually catches up with them, do you run away with your tail between your legs and only return when things have ultimately changed, do you keep trying to find silver linings to justify your very existence, do you lower your expectations by convincing yourself it could be worse or do you stand up for what you believe in by holding people accountable for their actions, especially when every fiber of your being tells you that something is rotten in the state of Denmark

we all know AW has no longer self respect so fruitless to ask him to resign as he forfeited the reason why he signed a new Contract.................. Not sure if I am more upset with the Three stooges or with the AKB's that in great deal are equally responsible...... Dinner is served

Nowhere was the juxtaposition between divertissement and gravity more awkward than at Chelsea Piers, the self - billed «30 - acre sports village» on the West Side waterfront, a six - block - long rec center complete with bowling alley, driving range and rock - climbing walls that serves as one of Manhattan's primary playgrounds.

Cathy Warwick epitomizes that self - serving blatherer that characterizes contemporary British midwifery: the biological essentialist who believes that «natural» birth is more important than safe birth, the anti-rationalist who invokes «quantum theory» to explain why scientific evidence should be ignored in favor of midwives» opinions, the self - absorbed, self - referential, selfish woman who pretends that the needs of midwives are the same as the needs of women.

There are a variety of reasons but one of the most important is the philosophy of «normal birth,» the self - serving idea promoted by midwives that the process of birth is somehow equally or more important than the outcome.

• Assumptions about different cultural groups and how they impact breastfeeding support • Shoshone and Arapaho tribal breastfeeding traditions shared through oral folklore • Barriers to decreasing health disparities in infant mortality for African Americans • Effects of inflammation and trauma on health disparities that result in higher rates of infant mortality among minority populations • Barriers to breastfeeding experienced by Black mothers and how lactation consultants can support them more effectively • Social support and breastfeeding self - efficacy among Black mothers • Decreasing pregnancy, birth, and lactation health disparities in the urban core • Positive changes in breastfeeding rates within the African American community • Grassroots breastfeeding organizations serving African American mothers

One more self - serving rant: the paperback version of Finding Ultra is coming out on May 21.

Gibson, who served three terms and is not seeking re-election because of self - imposed term limits, joins more than 60 other local and state leaders, committees and organizations who have endorsed Faso in the race, including state and local GOP and Conservative party leaders, elected officials from the 11 - county district, CNBC television host Larry Kudlow, noted political science professor Dr. Gerald Benjamin and the state Conservative Party, among others.

«It's one more piece of evidence that we are dealing with a corrupt and self - serving institution.»

The WFP leadership has become just another self - serving political faction more interested in their personal power and patronage, just use the name working families as a advertising slogan to mislead the voters,» added Hawkins, a teamster who is the only union member running for Governor.