self-serving

Bill Clinton's administration was bedevilled by self-serving leaks from ambitious staffers trying to promote themselves or their cause.

As a breeder, myself, its a little self serving for me to say this, but it is still the best course of action.

But let us ask ourselves: what sort of self-serving doctrine says, "Please, put all the taxes on me" ?

If Mary Lincoln had known how much pernicious mischief Herndon would perpetrate in later years, she might have been more self-serving.

Such talk, however self-serving, shows the fragility of the transition from the long dominance by the LDP to a more dynamic system.

It has evolved into a self-serving elite; conspicuously, it has no base among the masses.

So this seems like a good time to point out that this blame-the-public view isn't just self-serving, it's dead wrong.

If psychiatrists are so protective of their turf to think they're the only ones who can do this, it's just self-serving and arrogant.

The world's love is often self-serving and self centered.

And yet even our most self-serving actions can be justified to ourselves.

He's nothing but a self-serving, egotistical maniac.

In our self-serving culture with its "me first" mentality, acting like a servant is not a popular concept.

But it has no monopoly on self-serving policies.

But that day, it occurred to me, what if that grammar is nothing more than a self-serving conceit?

But it is possible to find Mr Blair self-serving yet his description of how real voters think and act convincing.

Our culture is all about being self-serving. It encourages us to take, take, take.

So self-serving are the capital's people, he declared, that they carry a Qaddafi flag in one pocket and a rebel one in the other.

His outrage is, of course, also partly self-serving: France is once again preparing to bust its Maastricht-stipulated budget deficit limit.

From the point of view of traditional mainstream society, they are moral degenerates and self-serving rebels.

As compared to days gone by, the family structure has weakened so much that people have developed uncaring and self serving attitudes.

Seeking office, telling people why you should be their elected representative, was regarded as a form of self-serving opportunism.

The finance industry repeats the self- serving mantra ' you can't time the market' to keep you fully invested all the time .

Too many comments that are self-serving could make you seem like you're implying you're better than average.

The expulsion made him realize he should avoid 'self-serving rationalizations about questionable behavior. '

Health care policy, international relations and military policy are all measured by this crude and self-serving yardstick.

This negative view dismisses alternative plausible motivations beyond self-interest and beyond rational calculation of self-serving ends.

Certainly, much needs changing in Ecuador, whose self-serving politicians have presided over economic mismanagement and corruption.

Transocean, too, rejected it as self-serving and pointed to flaws in the well's design, as well as to BP's management of the project.

The FED is just a self serving placebo.

This looks shortsightedly self-serving: it is a sop from Lula to his party's left-wing, which disagrees with his economic policies.

There is nothing more unprofessional and self-serving than telling others how wonderful you are.

Some of these complaints are self-serving.

The basic stumbling block to global peace rests with the self-serving ambitions of many nations .

But, as Nicholas Lemann tells us, the two amount essentially to the same thing: a self-serving and self-perpetuating elite.

Many Argentines are fed up beyond measure with what they see as a corrupt and self-serving political system.

In a government full of hypocrites from top tobottom, life is as cheap as their lies and their self-serving laws.

Your civilisation is born and bred by transient elements of avarice, consumerism, lust, self serving agendas and pride.

He demonstrated his self-serving skills at the recent EU summit in Brussels on the euro zone's sovereign-debt crisis.

Now they have become the greedy, self- serving elite who specialise in policy blunders and award themselves cushy post-retirement jobs.

The ground teleoperation demonstration system of satellite on-orbit self-serving is established in this dissertation.

They often fail, they need reform and course correction, but they are not, at their best, merely venal and self-serving.

I can only convince myself that self-serving.

This time you got written out of Act 1. women are devious. Self-serving, shallow.

While that line of reasoning seems self-serving, many U. S. climate experts say China has a point.

It's not consciously self-serving, but, to a biologist, that's the logic.

The American complaint is less self-serving than it might seem, given that the disease is more widespread and more severe in Mexico.

He then found other loversDeneuve, Fonda and lesser known women whom he tattles on in explicit detail in this self-serving "confession. "

He is a bad guy, but mostly because his need to be self-serving contradicts with the government and authorities.

A demonstration of the superiority of self-serving narratives comes from two writers I know.

At best, it's a self-serving way for businesses to make their process sound more legitimate.

People who lead are leaders. This article seems somewhat self serving, as well as confident and blindly optimistic, to some degree.

In reality, everyone has self-serving agendas, but it is the level of harm to others that determines the level of trust in that person.

Whichever version (if any) is true, the story will give comfort to those who see American talk of human rights as self-serving prattle.

Such comparisons are obviously specious and self-serving.

The author's self-serving indictment seethes with malevolence.

The roadmap includes a measure of self-serving guff about the evils of shareholder democracy.

Indeed, it is a weakness the other 59 leaders demonstrated through the self-serving answers they gave.

This looks shortsightedly self-serving: itis sop fromLula to his party'sleft-wing, whichdisagrees with his economic policies.

"I don't believe in politicians. Everyone knows their track record. They are self-serving, " said 56-year-old rickshaw driver Ayub Niazi.

Those self serving will likewise devote themselves to their schemes or good times.

Society needs banks but not the self-serving kind we have today.

Kim Jong Il and the late Qing Dynasty, the Empress of China, not much difference, self-serving.

For those desperately seeking to cling on to their comfortable existence, it is also self-serving.

OK, I'll leave this one in because it lists what we've been doing. If people want to see it as self-serving, that's fine.

Self-serving rhetoric aside, look at the historical reality.

Banks' initial attack on fair value was self-serving.

This is not an unheard-of view among environmentalists, and at times Mr Lynas's protestations of heresy can seem a trifle self-serving.

To some, these arguments might sound self-serving, if not a throwback to old Reagan-era free-market views.

There are large gaps and omissions; often, Chiang Ch'ing's story is extremely self-serving.

This is misguided, and in the case of the army, self-serving.

This is just one example of what psychologists call a "self-serving bias" or the "above average" effect.

On the other I loath the Chinese government and the Chinese greedy, self-serving business practice.

Another problem is that government officials often pursue self-serving agendas.

At times it is little more than a self-serving diatribe.

Let's not pretend it's not self-serving.

That is a self-serving argument, since such tactics also drum up sales, but not necessarily a false one.

This is a little self-serving.

Behind in this reified relationships, not only out one cold heart, but also reveals a bright self-serving thieves both eyes.

There is also a self-serving element to some of the talk.

This is not to accept at facevalue the CCP's self-serving argument that only it can decide how far and howfast Chinacan safely liberalize.

Dr. Heart2: I think the lesson here is that doctors are self-serving.

When he in the drawing, will be self-confident, will forget oneself, acts in a self-serving manner;

Study on Mental Retardation Children's Ability of Living Self-serving

Relationship between Self-Esteem and Self-Serving Bias

Study on the Influence of Self-serving on the Service Trade