Example sentences for: self-interested

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

  • In your exchange with Philip Gourevitch about my book The Holocaust in American Life , you wrote the following, apropos of what you termed "the so-called 'lessons of the Holocaust,' or why we recall the Holocaust at all": "I would suggest, contra Novick, that not every institutional memory of the Holocaust is a deliberate instrumentalization of it toward cheap and self-interested ends."

  • Scathing reports from federal oversight agencies and angry congressional hearings questioned whether financially self-interested institutions could any longer be trusted to guard the welfare of research participants or the integrity of clinical research.

  • In the spirit of law and economics, we should credit and/or tar him with motives that are more intellectual and/or self-interested than that.

  • The other is ruthless and self-interested in a Thatcherite vein but nonetheless sympathetic in the end.

  • Adding human participants to the research mix should raise the barrier to the highest level and require compelling justification for any participation by a financially self-interested institution.


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