Sentences with phrase «personal aggrandizement»

Grant funding is supposed to be for research rather than personal aggrandizement, so claim # 1 needs to be supported to a degree satisfactory to the criminal standards of proof, not blog standards.

The remaining items refer to deductibility of charitable contributions, gifts and bequests, which are otherwise taxable — deductibility not to the recipient nonprofit organization, but to the donor, on the rationale that what the donor gives away to a charitable organization should not be treated as income for purposes of taxation since, unlike taxable income, it does not represent the consumption or accumulation of income for the donor's personal aggrandizement.

We will have to consider how personal aggrandizement could take an analogous route and become aggressive dominance over others in society.

Not exact matches

His is a personal quest for aggrandizement and his claims to be focused on the students is specious at best.

But it would be somewhat simpler, IMO, if climate scientists were just telling it straight, as opposed to second - guessing the rest of us and spinning their results and pronouncements so that they «nudge» us to the actions that they think best, which may be nothing more than their personal politics or self - aggrandizement.

I don't know what share of these people are actually working in good faith versus those that are in it for personal, professional, or financial aggrandizement, but the way this topic has been argued and propagandized leads me to suspect that the latter outnumber the former.