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Example sentences for: self-interest

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Members told us that they believed that the information sharing their organizations engaged in contributed to the overall security of the nation's critical infrastructures-an effort that they viewed as being in their own self-interest, as well as that of others.
Enlightened self-interest and all that.
Are only Westerners capable of perceiving their rational self-interest and acting on it?
The worry is their membership of a closed world of men with a mutual self-interest ...
And why does Christopher Lasch's The New Radicalism in America --the classic indictment of the self-interest of the "concerned" classes, which excoriates progressive paternalism from Jane Addams to the Kennedy administration--leave a big hole where Eleanor should be, giving her a free pass?