How to Use self-interest in a Sentence

self-interest

noun

• Still, the movie is smart enough to ask: How much denial and self-interest are at the root of Sharon’s selflessness?
  — Jen Yamato, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2024
• This is where the accusation of self-interest comes to bear.
  — Sam Dean, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2024
• If only one of you cares for the other, then the one who chooses self-interest gets it all as the generous one loses out.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 16 June 2023
• It will be answered by weighing the rights of creators against the self-interest of commercial entrepreneurs.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• Students 60 years ago had more self-interest in protesting, with friends dying overseas and a draft in effect.
  — Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 13 May 2024
• That’s out of self-interest: Any hint of the organism’s presence can shut down a state’s shellfish economy.
  — Maryn McKenna, WIRED, 6 Sep. 2023
• First, beware the power of self-interest in those calling for greater links between the U.S. military and tech sector.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 26 July 2023
• Perhaps the moves are also a signal that self-interest extends beyond the business case.
  — WIRED, 23 June 2023
• With her lion mane and second-skin catsuit, Jayne, who tries hard to affect pitiless self-interest on the series, seemed smaller, near to sweet.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2023
• The public choice problem refers to the concern that government officials may act in their own self-interest instead of the public's.
  — James Broughel, Forbes, 4 May 2023
• But Tingle said focusing on longevity is not just a matter of self-interest.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2023
• The need of the US and its allies to preserve access to energy led them to strike a compromise in balancing punitive moves with their own self-interest.
  — Azure Gilman, Fortune, 17 Feb. 2023
• But the group also claimed Head, who was removed from the board by other members last year, was organizing the petition out of self-interest.
  — Jason Beeferman, Dallas News, 21 Aug. 2023
• One need only consider how aid to Ukraine has been derailed by all kinds of self-interest politics in recent months.
  — Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 3 Apr. 2024
• There is beauty in surrendering to new rhythms in a new season of life, to choosing self-preservation over self-interest.
  — Carola Lovering, Vogue, 5 Feb. 2024
• Deploying a weapon in space would be against Russia’s own self-interest, experts argue.
  — Georgina Torbet, The Verge, 19 Mar. 2024
• But some critics will make arguments purely out of self-interest.
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 6 Nov. 2023
• Doubters accuse its champions of self-interest or even self-delusion.
  — Max Bearak Giacomo D’orlando, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2023
• Elba’s Sam, whose choice of career suggests a ruthless pursuit of self-interest, is upfront with the hijackers.
  — Time, 12 July 2023
• Criminal defendants have a penchant for speaking more freely in later life, even if that could be against their legal self-interest, Pitaro said.
  — Andrew Blankstein, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2023
• This kind of self-interest, Desmond argues, has also distorted the welfare state, so that poor people have to scramble for scraps of aid while the affluent receive handsome tax breaks.
  — Kim Phillips-Fein, The New Republic, 28 Aug. 2023
• The argument is in some ways persuasive, but also feels tailored for Binance’s self-interest.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 10 Apr. 2023
• This was the moment that really cemented the myth of Logan as a Great Man, a guy driven, despite his defects, by something beyond self-interest.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Anchorage Daily News, 29 May 2023
• This was due in part to the desire to play ball with the governor but also because Alaska’s entry into the market for shoddy offsets was arguably in the state’s rational self-interest.
  — Stephen Lezak, The New Republic, 15 June 2023
• To indulge one’s biases while pretending to report is the epitome of self-interest.
  — WSJ, 23 Feb. 2023
• Most Americans believe that our politicians are acting in self-interest, that our system is broken, that there’s a sickness in our national project.
  — Jp Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2023
• Although the auto show provides a good messaging platform, self-interest, the thinking goes, will likely play a role in whatever happens.
  — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 8 Sep. 2023
• And the day before the league’s executives met in London to present craven self-interest as a form of democracy, Everton was stripped of 10 points in the standings for surpassing the maximum loss permitted by the league.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2023
• Enlightened self-interest typically requires businesses to stay on good terms with those in power, but for Dimon and the Davos set today, that may turn out to be a fatally short-term view.
  — Jonathan Mahler Edoardo Ballerini Emma Kehlbeck Joel Thibodeau, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2024
• Lack of transparency – in other words, cloaking a hidden interest or self-interest – bigotry, law breaking or hate speech.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024