self-seeking

How To Use self-seeking In A Sentence

• Government is required because acting man cannot negotiate agreements effectively with other self-seeking acting men.
• You wonder what the point of promises are when they're only used to mask self-seeking behaviour.
• So he who would not exploit or contribute to the cause of war must cease to follow tradition, cease to be greedy, ambitious, self-seeking.
• O'Grady's accounts of the Elizabethan wars find heroism only among the ordinary members of the warrior class as brave and honest pawns sacrificed to the intrigues of their self-seeking leaders.
• There is in fact no great demand for Britain's self-seeking managers in the rest of Europe, for example (where in any case salary levels tend to be lower).
• “Evolutionism” has tried to become an establishmentarianism institution, though lacks the fundamental scientific basis for reality and credibility, despite repeated religious fervor by individuals who want to distance themselves from their fellow humans, for their own self-seeking purposes. Tangled Bank #71 - The Panda's Thumb
• Rather, it creates an institutional framework in which, to get ahead in their economic engagements, even people who grow up entirely self-seeking and anti-social must attend to the general social good and the well-being of others.
• So he who would not exploit or contribute to the cause of war must cease to follow tradition, cease to be greedy, ambitious, self-seeking.
• The court party retorted that the country party members were either secret Jacobites or self-seeking careerists, making trouble for their own ends.
• The depredations of philistine governments and ignorant, self-seeking bureaucrats are not the sole cause of the changes I have witnessed in academic literary studies.