Sentences with phrase «other selfish interests»

Starinets notes that published letter is «open for signing only to Soviet / Russian scientists having permanent positions abroad to avoid any criticism that the undersigned want any preferences for themselves from the Russian government or have any other selfish interests.»

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A good board leaves its own desires and its selfish concerns at the door and works together to reach the best decisions for the company rather than pushing or promoting choices that serve other outside interests -; including, sometimes, a board member's own investment objectives.

As with so much of living our faith, the key is to deny our selfish interests and be more interested in others.

Selfish ambition conceit, and preoccupation with their own interests to the exclusion of those of others, complement bad feelings toward one another (2:3 - 4, 14; 4:2 - 3) and ethical confusion (4:8 - 9).

Jesus Christ takes us out of ourselves, from our pre-occupation with our selfish interests, so that we can relate ourselves to the peoples of the world and their sufferings and needs; so that we can share in the sufferings of others.

The injunctions to «do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit» but rather «look to the interests of others,» are motivated by the example of Christ (2:1 - 5).

From this perspective one approaches life motivated, not by «selfish ambition or conceit,» but by a concern that «looks... to the interests of others.»

Any man aware of those facts who climbs into bed with another man for either oral or anal sex can not possibly have the other man's best interest at heart, is thinking only of himself, and his own selfish, perverted, sexual desires.

If Pa Adebanjo was in bed with the man from Otuoke, it was not for his personal interest compared to the selfish, egoistic, scallywagish antics of Bourdillon in supporting a disaster called Mohammadu Buhari that has driven the Yorùbá Nation into a murderous ditch along with other ethnic nationalities in Nigeria.

«Otherwise there are those citizens of the public who would conclude, if they have not already concluded, that these members have placed their own interests ahead of all other citizens of this state to the benefit of their own personal and selfish interests, and that those same people may also conclude and define that conduct as rude, inconsiderate and egotistical.»

Religious doctrines typically urge the faithful to treat others with compassion and to put the greater good before selfish interests.

They find love not just as sexual desire; they are not interested to use the other for selfish pleasure.

Within each of us is the fair person who wants to pursue her goals while also considering the rights and needs of others, the selfish person who wants to use her best thinking to serve her selfish interests, and the naive person who doesn't want to get involved in complex or difficult issues.

By doing this, one could reveal a study of British art history as yet unwritten and, in my naïve and selfish curatorial mind, create an exhibition that I wanted to visit in the hope that others might also find it interesting.

Really, it shouldn't be a political issue, either, unless one is so callous and selfish as to be willing to harm hundreds of millions of other people for one's own personal interests.

Of course there are times when we must be selfish, we have to look after our own interests in a world that is largely «dog eat dog», but surely we must look to the needs of others too?

I think when lexicographers define selfish to mean; «a chief concern for ones own interest, especially with disregard for others» they have created a contradiction as having disregard for others is not in my best interest, and I see no evidence, even for the misanthropic, that disregard for others is in anyone else's best interest.

These organizations are able to wield their nowadays entirely out - of - wack - for - the - times Orwellian powers for their own pockets» benefits only due to their ability to legally hold the public to ransom in order to achieve their own selfish goals; their successfully exercised powers of class warfare against the public interest are a form of legalized extortion... period, in my opinion, because the consuming public which uses their services is being held to ransom during the course of a strike; they, the public, have no other acceptable choices at their disposal.