Sentences with phrase «selfish interests above»

In Brill's telling, the education class war pits a heroic group of entrepreneurial philanthropists, highly successful hedge fund billionaires, and idealistic Ivy Leaguers who join Teach for America against somewhat grubby and grasping rank - and - file public school teachers and their union leaders, who often put their own selfish interests above those of the children.

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Threatened by loss of life and happiness and tempted by the pleasures that calculated exploitation of selfish interests could bring, men are inevitably seduced into the pursuit of numerous goods and goals which exalt their own interests above those of their neighbors.

Nevertheless, I ask you to recognize that it is the selfish choice, and that demanding the availability and legality of that choice is rooted in selfishness — in the desire to be able to prioritize your interests above another's life if and when the time comes.

It places pleasure above love, health and well - being above the sacredness of life, the participation of special interests groups in governance above democratic representation, women's rights above motherhood, the empowerment of the selfish individual above any form of legitimate authority, ethics above morality, the right to choose above the eternal law written in the human heart, democracy and humanism above divine revelation — in a nutshell, immanence above transcendence, man above God, the «world» above «heaven».

They are all narcissistic, selfish and mean - spirited, protecting their earmarks and special interests above all.

«We can not sit down for a few people to destroy BOST which is strategically positioned to serve the nation just because of their selfish interest which is always placed above the national interest»: Mr Abdul Jamil stated.

It'd be a place where people actually listened to evidence and weighed it thoughtfully, rising above one's own selfish interests and needs.

It is also ironic that in repeatedly berating the «selfish» and «self - absorbed» individual who «put their interests above everybody else's» and «[doesn't] care what happens to anybody,» respondent failed to recognize that he was describing himself.

Putting your own selfish interests over and above those of a client is definitely a breach of fiduciary obligations.