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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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What seems to motivate Congress is self-preservation - a desire to get re-elected.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But his adaptability did not apply to his tenets, merely to his instinct for self-preservation .
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But I also joined out of self-preservation .
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It was a matter of self-preservation .
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More generally, the instinctive drive for self-preservation led to the emergence of a range of public and governmental institutions.
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Otherwise a decreasing fraction of the flow would be turbulent, and, for example, self-preservation could not occur.
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Politics and self-preservation must come first, never mind the majority of the people.
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There is a feeling of self-preservation here; for what shuts out happiness for some does so for me and mine.
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Thoughts around Salomon Brothers turned away from the greater glory of the firm and focused on self-preservation .