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Example sentences for: self-preservation

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Thus subtle racism and a rational urge to self-preservation are bound up together.
Farrow says that after Roman Polanski cast her in the career-making role of the young, pregnant woman in Rosemary's Baby , he took advantage of her lack of an instinct for self-preservation and filmed a scene of her threading dangerously through oncoming traffic.
3) When deciding whether to keep his agents away, the president's self-preservation instinct will overcome his fear of inconvenient testimony.
It was only a matter of time before someone who had seen how things worked inside of the Oval Office would, when called before the prosecution, choose self-preservation over loyalty.