Sentences with phrase «selfish ends of»

I'm using the story as a paradigm that I think has been abused... or used for the selfish ends of leadership.

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Now, from a «selfish» point of view, you will always end up with more money if you sell the crypto, pay the tax, and keep the rest.

But don't sleep on the lesson of his older brother, who played by all the rules but still ended up angry and discontent — because he played by them for selfish reasons.

Right to the bitter end of someone's life, to be selfish enough to not want to listen, but rather to continue to proselytize and preach.

It permeates the history of post-Classical Western civilization as politics, culture, science, and individualism are perverted for selfish ends.

The violence - prone masculine psyche drives us to racism, colonialism, imperialism and other types of oppression which are in fact extensions of the male - female pattern that lets us project the dark side of ourselves onto the other and so allows us to use / abuse other human beings for our own selfish ends.

Naomi Klein, in her book Shock Doctrine, suggests that governments will use this for selfish ends, i.e.: create the crisis to change the mind of the public.

In the end, the author believes that the Enlightenment thinkers developed a «theological» model, even though he completes this exhaustive study by citing a grim text from one of Nietzsche's «Letters» that sounds anything but theological: ««The family will be slowly ground into a random collection of individuals,» haphazardly bound together «in the common pursuit of selfish ends.

«I have felt that Vanderbilt University was Methodist, not in the sense that Methodists made it, but in the sense that it was a great trust committed to the Methodist Church to be carried out, not for selfish ends, but for the good of society and the upbuilding of Christ's kingdom.»

That the life of selfish ambition, the struggle for autonomy, acquisition, and success, and attachment to finite goods lead in the end to misery, conflict, guilt, despair, boredom, and frustration.

I protect kids for a living, do everything I can to help ALL people, respect all life and give everybody their dignity, give my time and resources to help others, complain little, hurt nobody, want minimal things for myself and often go without, sacrifice for family, friends and community, but because I do not think there is a deity in the sky, I'm going to Hell while some selfish, ignorant, mean, destructive, abusive and hateful person who says, «Sorry» to God at the end of their life goes to Heaven.

Before it our vast disparities of wealth and poverty, wasted natural resources, and the use of God's good gifts solely for selfish ends could not stand.

It does not matter what or whom Humans have always taken advantage of a situation and twisted it to their own selfish ends... that is not Gods fault... It is Human Kinds fault... you know the ones that you have so much faith in...

It is not a book of selflessness, it is a book of acting selfless to have a reward at the end, which is in itself an exceedingly selfish act.

You have failed to consider the chance that the child may end up living a life of being hated or a life of poverty... how every selfish of you to wish such horrific thing upon a child.

I usually try to make this cake for Father's Day, but... I know this is selfish, but because I end up eating so much of the cake, I made a simple cherry pie.

And I usually defend Ramsey, but it's well known he disturbs the momentum of games, and in the end is a selfish player, and he did everything that was expected of him.

Only unlike Senna and Schumacher he didn't do it in a selfish attempt to win a championship, oh no - he did it so that 1) the team wouldn't fire him at the end of the year and 2) the ensuing safety car would put team mate Fernando Alonso on the perfect strategy, allowing him to win the race.

At the end of the day, he just might be so selfish that what should be an assist to his credit and even in favour of Walcot, as a goal scoring chance, would be spurned.

It feels like every month in today's world there is some new atrocity which makes the headline news and yet again we have some lone wolf gunman ending people's lives because of his own selfish actions.

: 0) I guess it's a selfish response on my end because we're already avoiding white flours, high sugar content, high saturated fats, high sodium content... we eat together 7 nights a week, I pack lunches... I worry that the school will come along and undo some of the stuff I've worked so hard for.

After four years of paying daycare and barely making ends meet we knew we couldn't be so selfish and do it for another (what feels like) million years... it totally sucks when money dictates your ovaries.

But it won't be the end of the world or mark your failure as a parent, or mean that you're selfish and awful for recognizing your own biological need to sleep.

Would it be selfish of me to move at the end of this school year?

Only if you are being seen by a large practice with several doctors, like I was, you may end up with one of your doctor's colleagues, the only male one, the one with the bald head who berates you for being «selfish,» the only one you've never met before.

still hovers over the polity, where some players, back then, tried to hide the state of health of the president, for their own selfish ends.

Governor Sani Bello regretted that the perpetrators of such false, malicious and ungodly speculations and those calling for his resignation either wanted to overheat the polity for their selfish end or are completely ignorant of the country's constitutional provisions.

The last parliament was actually a disaster, as members (both majority and minority) were almost always fighting for their own selfish ends to the detriment of their constituents.

The Republican has developed a spot - on critique of the mayor's failings, from his deadly mismanagement to his self - indulgent national politicking to his naked abuse of his office to serve his selfish political ends.

Ultimately, it's a sort of character study, «a complete portrait of a man — one who can be commanding, weak, funny, loving, cold, single - minded, selfless and selfish — and by the end of the drive, you feel like you've known Ivan for years.»

On the opposite end of the spectrum is Lithgow's Doug Strutt, a selfish and arrogant hotel tycoon who makes his money by crushing others.

They end up separated and at the mercy of the whims of their selfish children.

He plays Jack Jaconi, the pathologically charming and selfish father of Laura (Vera Farmiga), and by the end of the opening scene, when she's sounding off to her therapist about him, we're certain that he must be some version of the monster she describes.

The young Natalie was killed through the actions of selfish men but she had the heart and lungs of a mountain lion and this thought stayed with me long after the film's ending.

At the other end of the spectrum is Thomas Stanley and William Danko's The Millionaire Next Door, which profiles a lot of rich people that strike me us humourless, sanctimonious and selfish.

The never ending compassion of all of the volunteers and everyone at NMDR is the most selfish acts known to man and canines.

Some well - meaning dog lovers I have encountered, whether in person or through online discussions, have argued vehemently that euthanasia for a behavior problem is never justified — it's always a travesty, a selfish decision and an unforgiveable failure on the part of the owner or trainer that ends up costing the dog its life.

«Since talking about your own game may sound selfish, there's another moment that literally broke with so many conventions which is the final decision you must take at the (real) end of Nier: Automata.

Features: — post apocalyptic open world, which will immerse you in the atmosphere of the world that survived its end — diverse story missions and plenty optional additional jobs — intriguing comic story — variety of vehicles, from fast passenger to unstoppable truck — variety of weapons, designed for destroying your enemys and zombies — vehicle and weapon upgrade system — variety of enemys, among wich decayed corpses, selfish military and local bandits

These intransigent leaders at the Climate Change Conference evidently became so isolated from the family of humanity at the end of the last day of meetings that their unilateral, morally offensive «rear - guard action» in defense of selfish, irresponsible national aims crumbled, as is common with such unsavory efforts.

: your inquisitive, market - driven forms of manipulation of the environment to suit your selfish desires are killing us and now must end!

I am not selfish — I hope that law schools steal as many of these ideas as possible, as at the end of the day, law students are making a tremendous investment of time and money.

Since most people say that the objective is selfish and seems inarticulate, many of us end up choosing the summary statement instead.