SELF-PRESERVATION


Meaning of SELF-PRESERVATION in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

What seems to motivate Congress is self-preservation - a desire to get re-elected.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But his adaptability did not apply to his tenets, merely to his instinct for self-preservation .

But I also joined out of self-preservation .

It was a matter of self-preservation .

More generally, the instinctive drive for self-preservation led to the emergence of a range of public and governmental institutions.

Otherwise a decreasing fraction of the flow would be turbulent, and, for example, self-preservation could not occur.

Politics and self-preservation must come first, never mind the majority of the people.

There is a feeling of self-preservation here; for what shuts out happiness for some does so for me and mine.

Thoughts around Salomon Brothers turned away from the greater glory of the firm and focused on self-preservation .

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