Words similar to self-interest

Example sentences for: self-interest

How can you use “self-interest” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Culturebox would urge consumers to have faith in the power of corporate self-interest to protect them, at least in non-monopolistic situations, except that she's not convinced that that's what's really causing the general public to wax wroth.
Hamerow examines the motives of the resisters, both civilian and military; he shows them weaving sinuously between self-interest and idealism.
There is something heroic about a politician who seems to act against his immediate self-interest.
Stoltzfus, writing of the 2,000 Berlin women who marched down Rosenstrasse in 1943 to protest the incarceration of their Jewish husbands, sees that his case is something less than a study in pure virtue: Germans cared nothing for Jews unless self-interest intervened.
Credibility is the bread and butter of a travel guide; why would one sabotage it with such naked self-interest?