noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
economic
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Will his ideology make him close the border, or will economic self-interest keep it open, at least for a time?
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Rose Tsai and Julie Lee and their like-minded neighbors on the west side are pushing issues that smack of conservative economic self-interest .
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Presumably the interplay of political and economic self-interest of government in industry will bring us to their goal.
enlightened
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Perhaps sensibly, Mr Bush's campaign appeals more to enlightened self-interest than to self-sacrifice.
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One, deriving from Hobbes and Locke, regards the consent given as an expression of rational enlightened self-interest .
■ VERB
enlighten
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Or should we politicize the principle of altruism on the grounds that it is no more than enlightened self-interest ?
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Certain information is desired for enlightened national self-interest .
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An alternative view, however, suggests that enlightened self-interest is more likely than regulatory compulsion to bring about truly sustainable activities.
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Family support may be the twenty-first-century form of enlightened self-interest .
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For most people, paying tax was a kind of enlightened self-interest .
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We will only succeed if we start to develop a doctrine of international community based on the principle of enlightened self-interest .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
naked truth/self-interest/aggression etc
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And that's the naked truth Yes that's the naked truth.
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Lonrho itself is authority for the view that pursuit of naked self-interest by criminal means can never amount to conspiracy.
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Revealed ... the naked truth about Paul McCartney.
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The aristocracy of this period has been castigated for its naked self-interest and expediency.
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With their banshee wails, squalling guitars and naked aggression, they are baring their souls and they are angry.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Advertising is most effective when it appeals directly to people's self-interest .
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Our country's role in the world must be determined by economic self-interest .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But such self-interest might prove misguided.
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But there were other considerations, too, of which self-interest was only one.
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Certain information is desired for enlightened national self-interest .
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In practice, however, motives for intervention are rarely entirely pure, and an element of self-interest usually obtrudes.
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Or should we politicize the principle of altruism on the grounds that it is no more than enlightened self-interest ?
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The conservative is led by disposition, not unmixed with pecuniary self-interest , to adhere to the familiar and the established.
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They also wondered if Morris's strategic thinking was unhinged from financial self-interest .
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Too many leaders, motivated by self-interest , had failed to rise to the occasion.