Deception that is purely self-serving distorts a strategy — especially one that may benefit others — into mere self-serving manipulation.
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"They are self-serving half-truths from a self-serving half-man who has somehow convinced half the country that sacrifice is the same thing as success."
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"They are self-serving half-truths from a self-serving half-man who has somehow convinced half the country that sacrifice is the same thing as success," Oliver said.
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They're both transcendently — and transparently — self-serving and self-infatuated.
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Pakistan snorted at this "self serving, reckless and fictitious claim".
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The answers from actors can be stumbling, defensive, or self-serving.
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But read that way, he's being completely self-serving and sad.
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His grasp of facts is shaky and his motives self-serving.
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Universities are self-serving institutions beholden to no one but themselves.
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Many of its members are seen as self-serving or bent.
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Ultimately, the Oscars are theater, and self-serving theater at that.
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Lorenz also believed the entire moment was self-serving for Blair.
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Yes, every aspect of Cruz's performance was calculated and self-serving.
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To me, Spurlock's post came across as self-serving and disingenuous.
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Bernard Arnault is doing something more complex but also self-serving.
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All human beings do this: psychologists call it self-serving bias.
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Canavan said that Glencore's move to cap production was self-serving.
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Hiring managers shouldn't approach job interviews in a self-serving way.
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Or was this just self-serving claptrap propagated by comedy writers?
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But in Russia's case, the excuse is even more self-serving.
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That is a very shallow and self-serving conclusion to draw.
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Its message: We will no longer listen to self-serving elites.
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Maybe her blase wavering isn't self-serving; maybe it's just her.
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Sure, every administration indulges in self-serving narratives and laughable spin.
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FEW INDUSTRIALISTS have been as cruelly self-serving as Andrew Carnegie.
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It is the result of decades of corrupt, self-serving government.
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The secretary of state's behavior has been cowardly and self-serving.
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It is a Hobbesian forecast, and doubtless a self-serving one.
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"Clearly, he thought him a self-serving egomaniac," Ms. Thaler said.
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For Moore's detractors, his actions were an unconstitutional, grandiose, self-serving stunt.
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But Moore's self-serving agenda and his own ego leave him as
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Moreover, the definition of "fake news" is intentionally nebulous and self-serving.
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Some of the other actors were more self-serving in their answers.
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But of course there was a self-serving element to it, too.
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And the administration's attacks on international rights institutions look equally self-serving.
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For Shell, there's a definite self-serving aspect to all of this.
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This is what makes this whole story seem calculated and self-serving.
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He's not yet as evil and self-serving as the EIC, though.
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Perhaps I am suffering from a self-serving bias of my own.
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What is the NCAA without the big, self-serving lie of amateurism?
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It reinforces the corrosive notion that self-serving elites write economic policy.
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Corruption within a self-serving and self-preserving bureaucracy is entirely predictable.
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"Stacey Abrams: a self-serving, fiscally irresponsible career politician," the ad declared.
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Self-serving politicians won't get the job done but someone certainly must.
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Kindness is weak when you use it in a self-serving manner.
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Including competing self-serving narratives only partially solves the book's structural problem.
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If that sounds pontifical and self-serving I hope you'll forgive me.
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" Few explorers escape Dippel's scorn in this chronicle of "self-serving deeds.
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But across nearly five hours, they're also repetitive and occasionally self-serving.
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The self-serving talk of "a peaceful, transactional cooperation," will fool nobody.
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Of course there is also something self-serving about Mr. Zuckerberg's remarks.
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Government, I've concluded, is now an insufferable jungle of self-serving bureaucrats.
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She suspected that the government's story about Kashmir was self-serving propaganda.
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It's awkward, it's kind of self-serving, and it was not... me.
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Critics say the choice of which types to block is self-serving.
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The self-serving Establishment has been focused on perpetuating itself for decades now.
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He successfully patented this idea, called the "Self-Serving Store," which is ridiculous.
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The public consensus is that politicians are self-serving, not to be trusted.
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But she just as often lays into the self-serving political elite herself.
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I think that just tells you that their arguments are self-serving bullshit.
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A ZenTalk app provides access to various self-serving Asus websites and forums.
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Did music for Objectivist manifesto Fight Club, responsible for self-serving bros everywhere.
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Your self serving display of pretend empathy does not absolve you of responsibility.
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The neoliberal model indeed works phenomenally well for Chile's self-serving elitist few.
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"I think those assurances were self-serving, and even somewhat evasive," said Sen.
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A corrupt politician's self-serving development plan is called the New Harlem Renaissance.
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Ethical standards applied in inconsistent and self-serving ways are merely window dressing.
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An apology on the Oopsie Circuit is ultimately self-serving and deeply unhelpful.
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The testimony and evidence are a pileup of contradictions and self-serving exculpation.
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Obviously Nero is totally self-serving and hysterical and politically corrupt and dangerous.
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But the speech also struck some in the tech industry as self-serving.
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The company is no stranger to being accused of providing self-serving estimates.
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The tech industry has offered partial solutions, but mostly in self-serving ways.
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To many, including yours truly, Mr. Cook's arguments sounded alarmist and self-serving.
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She was being self-serving and opportunistic in the worst kind of way.
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" Papa John's called the accusations "untrue and disparaging," characterizing them as "self-serving.
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I'm a self-serving traveler who thinks the entire world revolves around me.
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That would defy our longstanding presumption about the self-serving essence human nature.
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The spin was just too aggressive, self-serving, and a little far-fetched.
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It's not only self-serving nonsense in most cases, it's exploitative of the voters.
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" He added, "What Cory Booker is doing is nothing but self-serving grabbing headlines.
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She isn't looking to be self-serving and boosting the Issa Rae comedy's ratings.
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They are trying to convince the public that not all politicians are self-serving.
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There are other signs behavioural advertising might be a gigantically self-serving con too.
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So this game of political question and self-serving answer is set to continue.
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"I know this is going to sound very self-serving, but Vice," Perry said.
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The public doesn't care See above: This is another self-serving and offensive explanation.
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Some wrote them off as nothing more than a self-serving public relations move.
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The objectives for participating in such a mission tend to be largely self-serving.
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It's a little self-serving, but Kaplan says it's also fun for casual readers.
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President Trump's self-serving political machinations undermined the foreign policy of the United States.
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I don't respect her, and I think she is a self-serving, manipulative opportunist.
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And Mrs Clinton's account is sufficiently self-serving to be open to that charge.
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Rieff contends that these collective remembrances are self-serving, often fraudulent and frequently dangerous.
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This is true crime in its most brutal and most transparently self-serving form.
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Only robust privacy laws could bring Facebook's self-serving house of cards tumbling down.
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She's a complete narcissist, power-hungry, and obsessed with securing a self-serving legacy.
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There are countless women who are weak-willed, weak-minded, self-serving, and cruel.
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Expect fireworks if Manafort's lawyers challenge Gates's truthfulness and integrity as being self-serving.
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That's charitable, but sometimes charity is an excuse for irresponsible and self-serving behavior.
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The myriad excuses are self-serving and only underscore the fundamental reason she lost.
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The impeachment mob was on the move, and self-serving politics demanded its appeasement.
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Can the self-serving political elites address the demands of radicalized and disaffected citizens?
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Science is composed of humans prone to self-serving reasoning just like everyone else.
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It allows Trump and his defenders to paint Comey as disgruntled and self-serving.
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Israeli voters recoiled at the shameless pandering, the ignoble kowtowing, the self-serving recklessness.
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This was a one-man show from the top down for self-serving reasons.
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Warren on Monday said the plan created by Trump's economic team was self-serving.
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House impeachment manager Jerry Nadler: Trump's position is 'nothing but self-serving constitutional nonsense'
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Debenhams said it rejected Sports Direct's complaints, describing them as unfounded and self-serving.
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Yet here we are months later and the self-serving spin was clearly correct.
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This paragraph is perhaps the most self-serving of all of Mr. Zuckerberg's proposals.
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But some climate activists say that the Sky scenario is weak and self-serving.
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His image of the cat was mostly a cat with a self-serving agenda.
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However, there's a self-serving laziness to the lack of progress in our progressive politics.
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Trump is certainly not demented when it comes to being self-serving or deceiving others.
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While Marchionne's sentiment seems rather altruistic, it might be more self-serving than it appears.
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"The video flatly contradicts the self-serving accounts of the police officers involved," Taylor said.
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"A more self-serving person would have gone all in on Donald," Stern told THR.
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There's a self-serving reason why game developers should encourage use of the Share button.
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"It's self-serving speculation and simply not true, your honor," Bundy reportedly said in court.
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Brazile's self-serving effort to expose the Democratic Party's skeletons is a step toward recovery.
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The "drawbridge up" or "drawbridge down" dichotomy looks a bit too self-serving for comfort.
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But the compulsion is self-serving, and satisfied at the cost of everyone around him.
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President Donald Trump's first and only reaction to the news was defensive and self-serving.
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They don't regard that idea as a self-serving fiction pushed by the Clinton campaign.
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And this tactic is nothing but a self-serving move, not a public-regarding one.
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His steadfast attachment to conformity and respectability is inseparable from his coldblooded, self-serving sadism.
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Out of his element of "honor and duty," Ned floundered among sneaky, self-serving Southerners.
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Fake news sites can buy advertising through self-serving platforms once they receive enough impressions.
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Kissinger's secrecy was self-serving, designed to boost his influence and diminish his domestic peers.
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Many Amish are "put off by [Trump's] hubris, self-serving style and language," Kraybill said.
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The financial crisis persuaded voters that they were governed by aloof, incompetent, self-serving elites.
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We must also recognize and resist self-serving politicians who use art to divide us.
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Many of his opponents in congress were corrupt and self-serving, as well as obstructive.
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We are at the mercy of rapidly transitioning politicians and their often self-serving proposals.
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It is a self-serving ploy for Beijing to use the NED as a scapegoat.
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To me it had meant that my father was not loving, but rather self-serving.
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And it's more of the same selectively self-serving arguments being dispensed by Facebook today.
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All autobiographies are self-serving, but those of public figures tend to be unapologetically so.
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It's self-serving of me to say so, but I think that's what really happened.
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Too often we have watched a 'Statesman', once elected, morph into just another self-serving politician.
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Some of the world's richest, smartest, and most self-serving people think death can be cheated.
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When they gather in Davos, the world increasingly assumes that their prescriptions are entirely self-serving.
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His rather self-serving explanation of why he lost in 2016 is a clue to that.
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Nonetheless, the events in Wisconsin are unedifying and will spread cynicism about politicians' self-serving behaviour.
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So it might seem as if I'm setting out here to make a self-serving point.
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Will Tanner, a former adviser to May, said the timing was astonishing, self-serving and disloyal.
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All for a self-serving interview that reflects poorly on everyone involved, including Rolling Stone magazine.
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Their modest scale saves them from turning into overblown, self-serving statements, nor is there anything.
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This leaves the average, middle class family potentially exposed to self-serving advice from their advisers.
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The tech industry has offered partial solutions to this inequity, but mostly in self-serving ways.
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It underscores how his personal flaws have driven away talented subordinates and attracted self-serving replacements.
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The slightest encouragement of Mr. Trump's venomous, self-serving politics will haunt our democracy for decades.
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Despite the self-serving rhetoric propagated by many ENGOs, we are not victims of climate change.
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In other words, the risk for Democrats lies not in preaching such a self-serving gospel.
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But just a more self-serving kind that aims to keep developers enthused and perceptions tickled.
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One way to achieve that is through volunteerism and moving from self-serving to serving others.
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It's an appallingly self-serving playbook, but it's one that the current E.P.A. is falling for.
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There are countless claims like these, almost all of them unsubstantiated, tautological or otherwise self-serving.
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Your father's decision to keep your existence a secret is both self-serving and morally vacant.
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The emperors created a closed, self-serving and rapacious elite — until the entire system suddenly collapsed.
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Isn't history always a self-serving narrative shaped by actors who are deeply invested in it?
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It is easy to lose hope — money in politics and self-serving ideologies are powerful foes.
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"These self-serving false statements are contradicted by all of the other evidence," the House wrote.
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" He mentioned Mr. Comey's contemporaneous notes of their meetings, calling those memos self-serving and "fake.
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Another suggested that China also publishes textbooks with self-serving interpretations of history, as Japan does.
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They're more of a self-serving defense of banks' perceived interests than a substantial economic argument.
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Nixon clearly acted on self-serving political motives, and he ended up being driven from office.
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He has appeared less noble and more petty, self-serving and vindictive with each passing interview.
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" Joan Scott, a historian of gender, wrote that Nussbaum had "constructed a self-serving morality tale.
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This is pure self-serving nihilism and I think it's important to be clear about that.
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There's also a way in which this attack may come off as self-serving for Sanders.
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Zuckerberg's attempt to spin the same self-serving lines should really fool no one at this point.
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All too often, sadly, these calls can seem narrow and self-serving, preaching to the already converted.
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You can even criticize his Monday statement as partially self-serving, or his donations as not enough.
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The really tedious stuff is all the also incomplete, equally self-serving pronouncements that surround 'fake news'.
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Outside the cities, people feel as if they are sneered at by greedy, self-serving urban sophisticates.
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Her war against Mr Kuczynski risks coming across as self-serving; she may now become less aggressive.
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Self-serving conflicts of interest and secondhand rumors about the litigants tend to erode sound decision making.
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But while elites will always exist, liberals will always fight against them when they become self-serving.
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The company's aggressive promotion of such a self-serving first product was considered a public relations disaster.
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Perks that might be a little more self-serving for the company are also on the rise.
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Turns out that the spending is a little more self-serving than companies would have us believe.
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Ward also claims that Kushner is just as "sinister" — and self-serving — as his father-in-law.
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Collins said Booker is being "self-serving," dismissing it is as an effort to grab the headlines.
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The original intent of forced separation retreated over time behind the veil of a self-serving propaganda.
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Barr's position on Bush's self-serving pardons was in keeping with his broad views of executive power.
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They golf together, so to go public with these critiques — I just, I think it's self-serving.
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To Mr Khan, the Supreme Court has shown courage and wisdom, but that view is self-serving.
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On the other hand, networking tends to be more superficial and can come across as self-serving.
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Self-serving extremists in both parties and the media are prevailing at the expense of the country.
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Having self-serving tech giants shutting people up is hardly the alternative envisioned by the constitutional framers.
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This is a self-serving position which undermines the moral commitment of academia to fight climate change.
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"But I feel like it's a bit self-serving for me to participate in this," he said.
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So, in a very self-serving way, I encourage you to support truth wherever you see it.
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Unlike self-serving "networkers," Gerber says the "super connector" title is one that is bestowed upon you.
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It is advanced by self-serving media figures bent on stoking conflict and controversy at every opportunity.
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Some members of Montreal's food community found the Bon Appétit article inspiring; others found it self-serving.
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You are responsible for and complicit in everything this narcissistic, self-serving, authoritarian, willfully ignorant demagogue does.
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Until Mr. Babchenko's stunt, it had been easy to dismiss this as self-serving smoke and mirrors.
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If treated with cynicism and twisted to self-serving ends, beliefs seem naïve, and dreams can die.
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In the meantime, please don't fill your column inches with the self-serving justifications of the selfish.
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And often the author is disgruntled and self-serving in their narrative and trying to settle scores.
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Mr. Chamas blasted the political class that has long led the country as self-serving and corrupt.
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The authorities see those demonstrations as a misguided and self-serving expression of solidarity among the judges.
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Millions of working people feel abandoned by the self-serving and corrupt elites that run their countries.
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Regulatory advocates were quick to slam Trump, calling his deregulatory push "self-serving" and dangerous to Americans.
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If a person of color calls out a microaggression, people see them as complaining or self-serving.
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" On Monday, a spokeswoman for Melania Trump slammed the remarks as "attention seeking" and "self-serving noise.
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Many in Washington debated whether the anonymous official was heroic, motivated by duty, self-serving or treasonous.
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What began as an attempt to discredit the investigator has now devolved into delusional, self-serving paranoia.
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I could not help but laugh because it was so preposterous, and so presumptuous, and self-serving.
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And, yes, that's self-serving Univision spin, but there's also an element of desperate truth to it.
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Rhoades's treatment of these concepts seems entirely self-serving: they are there just because he's obsessed with them.
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So much for the silly, self-serving, and largely misleading media coverage; what of the actual study findings?
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Nor can outside attorneys for potentially aggrieved parties (like Sekulow) impose self-serving, arbitrary limits on the testimony.
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Once a year, companies get to shed their often self-serving reputation and show off their giving spirit.
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Mr. Trump and his accomplices have shown that they are self-serving, dishonest and unfit for public office.
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The real villains — the majority of politicians, industrialists, and their largely self-serving kind — are all off camera.
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"Your postings are consumed with inaccuracies, false statements, self-serving comments, outright misrepresentations and blatant lies," Farley continued.
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Janet's desire for secrecy might well have been self-serving, but you weren't wrong to honor your word.
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There were constants in the friendship between Will Robinson and Robot and in Dr. Smith's self-serving machinations.
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Quite possibly it'll just be another friction-laced distraction tactic, akin to Facebook's self-serving 'Hard Questions' series.
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And his willingness to shift extreme positions on key issues is as brazen as it is self-serving.
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"[Lisa] was rescued from insolvency by a deal she now calls fraudulent and self-serving," Siegel's suit says.
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Such excuses are self-serving and in any case no grounds for coddling ND's base as prime minister.
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Wicked and self-serving, she's willing to do the Antichrist's bidding, despite his mission to destroy the world.
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Just build self-serving networks of people or bots to put out enough false information to obscure reality.
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Former CIA Chief John Brennan called that a, quote, "disastrous path" and accused Trump of self-serving action.
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Nance said that these showed audiences that elephants were intrinsically valuable outside of our own self-serving interests.
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Trump's self-serving baloney and contemptuous disregard for Dixon's plan ultimately led to the demise of the USFL.
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But Egypt is developing a knack for interminable probes that lead nowhere, or that produce self-serving results.
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"To me, he was just another billionaire real estate tycoon like any other; rich, self-serving," he says.
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When the old guard becomes too self-serving the new generation have to step in and challenge them.
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Protesters see them as belonging to the same self-serving political class as Ms Rousseff and Mr Temer.
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It would be glaringly self-serving for members of the legislative branch to argue against such a mechanism.
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It's also important to avoid appearing self-serving and as if you're interested only in finding job opportunities.
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The Vermont senator responded that Trump's question was more "self-serving" and teased that he appreciates the concern.
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Trump is so mired in dishonest and shady self-serving deeds that Clinton looks not quite so bad.
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PETE WEBB New York To the Editor: Peter Wehner sets a new standard for self-serving historical amnesia.
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They must bear the onus of providing overwhelming evidence for lower sentences; mere self-serving claims are insufficient.
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" The college's alumni group was critical of the school's Tuesday statement, calling it "self-serving" and "publicity driven.
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"Perhaps more interestingly, they engaged in more self-serving political behaviors in the afternoon as well," he adds.
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Self-serving kindness is thin — people can see right through it when a kind leader has an agenda.
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As our research has shown, programs like PEPFAR meet all of those tests: humanitarian, practical and self-serving.
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And not being so self-serving that it's only about making money, selling shoes, doing this and that.
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She added that it might seem self-serving for female investors to push founders to seek more diversity.
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I felt it was self righteous, and self serving, sounding more like a prosecutor's brief than fully sincere.
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The character as written is vain, self-serving and demagogic, cynically manipulating the whiplash passions of his followers.
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This is a very smart and very funny without also getting into that self-serving kind of nonsense.
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These contradictions matter, as does the administration's enthusiastic embrace of a self-serving, confrontational vision of the world.
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He alludes to threats, violent fights (some terrifying), but it is murky, and in a self-serving way.
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His non-cooperation makes for a podcast that at times feels more like self-serving exploitation than accomplished storytelling.
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But it's that kind of self-serving group-think that's allowed corruption to spread through this town for decades.
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But to the extent Castro's visit was a calculated, self-serving production, that didn't negate its deeper political significance.
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You've become one of the bastards we hated: An egomaniacal, Self-centered, Self-serving, Self-deceived, Mega-corporate Prick!
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For largely self-serving reasons, Divvy does what it can to ensure that the house isn't a dud, too.
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This analysis is flawed and self-serving, but it festers at the center of the Republican Party's civil war.
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Those explanations are going to be self-serving, but they can be a starting point for analysis and debate.
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Analysts say this is largely because voters still see it as less crooked and self-serving than its rivals.
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Still, his underlying sentiment—icky, self-serving, paternalistic, and more a little racially-fraught—isn't hard to suss out.
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Republicans would complain, of course, but after years of obstructing Barack Obama, these complaints would be transparently self-serving.
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But it's this kind of rhetoric that has, over the months, struck outsiders as either deluded or self-serving.
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The group released Facebook ads on Monday linking voters to its anti-Scott digital hub titled Self Serving Scott.
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Like life, there are some self-serving personalities, but generally most have employed good motives in their public actions.
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However, the CFPB is under constant attack by self-serving industries that don't want to play by the rules.
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This low turnout is echoed in city after city, around the nation, where governments have become self-serving monopolies.
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But, as with most cartels, self-serving people began to break the rules and the market competition remained intense.
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Brexit represents the most self-sabotaging instincts in its people, facilitated by the most cynical and self-serving politicians.
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Escobar's philanthropy may be self-serving, but it's hard to imagine his rivals feeling any identification with the poor.
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Ryan on Thursday slammed the move as self-serving, pointing to Democrats who were fundraising off the sit-in.
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Politicians are often disparaged for being self-serving; Madsen's acting deftly straddles the line between narcissism and sincere competence.
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Next, McConnell gave his Senate Republicans an answer to Trump's self-serving rants about Congress's failure to repeal ObamaCare.
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That historical account would be as self-serving and tendentious, in its own way, as our current glorious one.
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But time eventually makes feckless, self-serving, 61-year-old Twitter users of us all, so Ahmadinejad tweets now.
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"It smacks of what we never want to see in politics, which is it only self-serving," Sanford said.
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It is a completely self-serving maxim, designed to protect men against women, and not the other way around.
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The book's only truly credible voice, if credible is the right word, is the peerlessly self-serving Steve Bannon.
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Self-serving, anti-worker interest groups have been lobbying the government to get the construction exemption from IRAPs reversed.
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The natural check against such self-serving behavior is the will of the people, as expressed through their votes.
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It's the AAA guidebook all over again: a text that's meant to be helpful but instead is self-serving.
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If Trump's motivations were purely rooted in certain self-serving political demands, why would meeting Zelensky remedy the matter?
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The spectacle of a female candidate competing against a self-serving, bloviating male one still feels way too raw.
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Many accused YouTube of failing to listen to creators, of being a self-serving disappointment, of being on acid.
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"The company pursued its naïvely utopian — and undeniably self-serving — goal with a tragic disregard for consequences," Levy writes.
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If such actions are self-serving, as in cases of corruption or narcissistic ego gratification, moral censure is easy.
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"I always thought that was more self-serving," he added of running in one of newly drawn House districts.
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Now Tripp is speaking out about the negativity, saying that it's a stretch to see his post as self-serving.
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" During a Monday phone interview on the Today show, Trump said claims that his tweets were self-serving are "false.
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Of course, some retraining would be necessary, especially in the art of finding worthy-sounding explanations for self-serving policies.
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Video Manafort's lawyers called the statements from Mueller&aposs office "self-serving and inaccurate" and want their client's trial postponed.
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But the president's language was so self-serving, you'd think he did the deed himself ("We moved very, very quickly").
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We look to the highest court in our country for just and inspired decisions, not divisive and self-serving ones.
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So it looks to be trying to push its own self-serving interpretation of what is and isn't personal data.
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In addition, they attacked the independent forecasters whom they have previously championed as a valuable restraint on self-serving politicians.
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The pinnacle of white feminism, June's role in the Handmaid's world is at best self-serving and at worst unconscionable.
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Governments are unlikely to trust data that companies aggregate, given the incentives to share only self-serving, cherry-picked data.
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Obviously, RILA's place in this fight is self-serving: If anyone was hit hardest by ecommerce, it was traditional retail.
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Have they been imbued with the right stuff, will they act when necessary, and are they selfless or self-serving?
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Billy is just as self-serving, if not a tad more in touch with reality, and enables Julie's bad behavior.
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Ashanti's reaction to her ex-boyfriend Nelly's arrest was short, to the point ... and more than a little self-serving.
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Ultimately, the role he played in my life was self-serving (obviously, since it literally wasn't doing anything for him).
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That is a self-serving and vague claim, but those who work on the programme tend to view it positively.
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The problem with this explanation is both the self-serving reasoning and the fact that inflation expectations cannot be measured.
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As Scott got ready to announce his bid Monday, Senate Democrats' campaign arm painted him as a self-serving politician.
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"Some say this policy is unneeded, self-serving and that no one really wants it," Fayer says in his video.
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But under the Trump administration, she charged, the motivations of the staff — including Kushner — appear to be more self-serving.
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When Hillary Clinton tells the story of her mother's grit, it all may be true, but it's obviously self-serving.
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"A Mithril spokesperson chalked this episode up to nothing more than "a foiled plot by a self-serving ex-employee.
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" A Mithril spokesperson chalked this episode up to nothing more than "a foiled plot by a self-serving ex-employee.
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And in contrast to the self-serving verdicts rendered on his allies and enemies, his broader conclusions seem well balanced.
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Critical observers, including myself, have urged judges to intervene more aggressively to prevent self-serving conduct by class action lawyers.
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But as with almost everything related to Trump, his self-serving diatribes are rooted more in fiction than in fact.
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It arises in an environment in which the stereotype of the lazy, venal, self-serving MP is depressingly widely accepted.
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Nazi generals, writing self-serving memoirs after the war, blamed Hitler's having "politicized" their own beloved army for their complicity.
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But isn't their vengeful joy its own rushed celebration, its own self-serving simplification of a complex sequence of events?
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Facebook's decisions about what people should be allowed to post are not only arbitrary, but also capricious and self-serving.
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Trump is hardly the first politician to attract self-serving followers — White and Eure, after all, used to be Clintonites.
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Bobby's sexist pronouncements are outrageous, but his stunts are so absurd and self-serving that they're hard to take seriously.
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There is no defense for self-serving efforts to undermine the institutions and rule of law he's sworn to uphold.
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Not only was Mr. Ghomeshi's essay a self-serving "woe is me!" tale, it was also poorly vetted and edited.
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Outside critics lashed the study as self-serving, while other researchers said the analysis was solid and without apparent bias.
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It was their understanding that the rules and norms of platforms were self-serving and cynical in the first place.
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"Scott's self-serving political brand, his administration's failures and a hostile political environment will all cripple his campaign," Myers said.
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One by one, many formerly respectable politicians have joined a cult devoted to Trump's conspiracy theories and self-serving claims.
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" And he quotes Kurosawa's rather self-serving 1945 statement that Japanese films " 'have lost their youth, vigor and high aspiration.
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This is the right approach to take, in my view, even if in some ways it's self-serving for Facebook.
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They generally expect workers on boards to be self-serving, blocking job-killing investments and extorting higher wages for themselves.
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Unlike Trump, he was never self-serving or simplistic about the complications of the human situation, both personal and political.
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Until recently, taking Dominion's money and supporting its self-serving legislative proposals were widely considered de rigueur by both parties.
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One's survival, Jim and his adversaries cynically assert, depends on fashioning a framework as believable as it is self-serving.
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They have today plunged Britain into its worst crisis, exposing its incestuous and self-serving ruling class like never before.
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It's a service where the official regulations are vague, self-serving and haphazardly enforced, and therefore maximally prone to exploitation.
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To paint them all with the same broad brush of radicalism and extremism is absurd, dangerous, and politically self-serving.
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When Lee has control over her own story, it will necessarily be self-serving — but it also might be more honest.
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But prominent right wingers—notably, for example, Fox News anchor Sean Hannity—tried to spin self-serving tales about the murder.
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But the claim that we the voting public have nothing to learn from those records is both self-serving and false.
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Pour My Beer is a company that sells the software and hardware to bars that facilitates self-serving beer and wine.
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Perhaps their accounts are self-serving or wrong; in my limited dealings with him, he has never lied to my knowledge.
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STUBBORN and self-serving, Khalifa Haftar has long been seen as a spoiler of efforts to end the conflict in Libya.
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Yet at a time when the political opposition is divided and self-serving, few expect the church to fill the breach.
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When the far right was given air-time in the 90s, the coverage was usually sensationalist and self-serving, Daniels says.
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Critics might point out that this assessment is a tad self-serving: Mr Varian has been Google's chief economist since 2002.
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Is Trump impulsive, unstable, desperate, and self-serving enough to bomb North Korea in order to distract Americans from the investigation?
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Fairly or not, many Spaniards see their prime minister as personifying a self-serving and, in some cases corrupt, political class.
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Besides their suspicion of trade and immigration, nearly all rail against their country's elite, whom they invariably describe as self-serving.
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That is the self-serving aspect, and that's what makes her complex, and not as good as she thinks she is.
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To its credit, the Post's message was not simply self-serving, including images of journalists who work for other news organizations.
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" Now his current wife, first lady Melania Trump, is firing back, slamming her comments as "attention-seeking and self-serving noise.
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Hobbes's fellow-thinkers have spent centuries pondering whether humans tend to be self-serving or are more inclined to straight-dealing.
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Items that were self serving (buying clothes) were only assigned budget for the items, not for the work of doing it.
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Trump transition spokesman Phil Blando on Tuesday described as "demonstrably false" any allegations that Price introduced legislation for self-serving reasons.
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" JUST IN: Melania Trump spox responds to Ivana Trump's assertion ("I'm first lady") blasting it as "attention seeking & self-serving noise.
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"I've spent 40 years feeling like coming forward was self-serving rather than serving the population of victims," Hennessey told WMUR.
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Self-serving health insurance companies and other middlemen clog the path, cloud transparency and limit access to real health-care solutions.
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He has baselessly attributed Khashoggi's killing to rogue actors, denigrated the value of investigations and amplified the prince's self-serving denials.
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Secretary Tillerson deserves our congratulations and thanks for recognizing General al-Sisi's destructive and self-serving repression for what it is.
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But like children in the schoolyard, we have definitions of what's fair that vary widely and are typically transparently self-serving.
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The stories that they tell are often self-serving, and they skim over the failures and wages of their father's presidency.
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Any thought that he is taking a principled stand on the trade issue is disingenuous and self-serving and rings hollow.
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Someone is drinking cool aid here and without an authentic debate it's impossible to know which position is less self-serving.
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" Jones added, "Watching France's self-serving politics of passive aggression in this effort has discouraged me more than I can say.
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The panel was widely panned, even by those supportive of the President, with critics saying it was unnecessary and self-serving.
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Their cynicism is self-serving, of course, as it handily shifts blame for the mistrust the party inspires in Hong Kong.
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And on this subject Kantorowicz remains a somewhat elusive character — sinuously romantic at best; at other times slippery and self-serving.
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Because your dad is reacting to another couple's celebration, his behavior regarding his own anniversary seems petty, selfish and self-serving.
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Even if we accept some lies from our leaders, we should condemn self-serving lies and a high frequency of lies.
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Gone would be the self-serving career politician, a model that is clearly not benefitting the nation and invites political corruption.
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In a way, you could say that this effect tallies with Coward's self-serving (as well as self-satirizing) self-portrait.
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"They would look self-serving and out of touch if they tried to deny climate change," one expert told Ms. Lavelle.
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AARP and other special-interest groups employ alarmist half-truths and gin up hysteria to promote their self-serving political agendas.
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French voters are sick of the self-serving behavior of the political class, as Mr. Fillon's crippled poll numbers make clear.
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"They presented many of the same answers as each other and volunteered much self-serving information without being asked," it said.
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Not only did he never reclaim the check, but, instead, embraced the self-serving institutional anti-deflationism of the central bank.
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His tendency to solicit, repeat, and retweet self-serving falsehoods served up by sycophants and hangers-on should be taken seriously.
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But I don't think — this may sound self-serving, but I don't think it's comedy at the expense of the people.
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Belief in conspiracies can serve to set oneself apart from the ignorant masses—a self-serving boast about one's exclusive knowledge.
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Most of these accounts have been self-serving affairs, in which the past was ravaged so as to justify present clinical certitudes.
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"Populism" spread like wildfire across the West, thumbing its nose at elites seen by so many voters as complacent and self-serving.
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His seaside separation from Verdon is so self-serving, it will make you want to throw a jazz shoe at your television.
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Since the interview came out, Melania Trump's spokesperson Stephanie Grisham reportedly slammed the "attention seeking" and "self-serving" Ivana for her comments.
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What's troubling is when self-serving agendas throw a wrench in legislation intended to help some of the most vulnerable among us.
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Meadows, too, raised eyebrows over the one-sided nature of Comey's testimony, pointing out that Comey's memos could have been self-serving.
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The question is whether Jolly would be able to heal the wounds from his effort, which party leaders view as self-serving.
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We got John leaving Craig's on Monday night in WeHo and wanted to get his take on 45's self-serving tweet.
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There's definitely space for Cochran on O.J.'s "dream team," which is shaping up to be a collection of self-serving exhibitionists.
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But in the end, you still have to write things that are relatable and not so self-serving that nobody gets it.
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From our juvenile jealousies to our spite to our self-serving manipulations to our power trips, we are not to be trusted.
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" According to the Wall Street Journal, it also accused the DOJ of seeking "self-serving headlines on a matter of national significance.
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Many consider him vulgar, narcissistic, and self-serving, a pathological liar who seems unprepared for, even incurious about, the office he's holding.
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We should bear that in mind when assessing the Trump administration's self-serving desire to demonize and "end the culture of leaking."
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This strategy is actually self-serving in the long term, though, because Facebook only continues to dominate because its users don't leave.
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Mervyn King, who was governor of the Bank of England in 2003-13, sees such "instant memoirs" as "partial and self-serving".
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I know this is self-serving, but I think boys and men need to be reading more of what women are writing.
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All of this beg the questions - are there any ethically minded individuals left in politics or has everyone become completely self-serving?
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Mr Putin's legitimacy does not extend to his government, which is seen by 80% of the population as corrupt and self-serving.
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Colao, who has publicly clashed with the Deutsche Telekom CEO over the deal, said he was amused by Hoettges' "self serving" remarks.
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So whenever he invokes executive privilege over the next two years, Democrats rightly will see it as a purely self-serving maneuver.
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"James Comey's publicity tour is a self-serving attempt to make money and rehabilitate his own image," said McDaniel, the RNC chairwoman.
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It was self-serving bollocks that was a (well intentioned) attempt at justifying the existence of some very, very, very horrible music.
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"I viewed it as self-serving, as opportunistic―unforgivable in my view," a New York donor named Rosalind Fink told the outlet.
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First, the recent inspector general report showed that McCabe's motive in a leak to the press was not political but self-serving.
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Given the AOA's history of questionable behavior, senators ought to be more skeptical of the group's self-serving arguments and lobbying campaign.
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But a group revolt — which many Trump critics have yearned for — could also come across to viewers as pompous and self-serving.
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But we tell ourselves these stories about how we got where we got and these stories are often self-serving and dishonest.
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The apologies and brisk discussion she participated in felt overly political and self-serving in comparison to the rest of her campaign.
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What Latour observed firsthand in Guillemin's lab made the traditional view of science look like little more than a self-serving fiction.
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Traditional Islamic concepts have been utilized to guide state policy rooted in a pre-modern and self-serving reading of Islamic law.
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These are not reasons for having the program — they are expected results from having it — and both results are entirely self-serving.
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Famously, Kennedy let hours elapse before reporting what happened, only then providing an explanation that sounded self-serving and strained at best.
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His pious endorsement of an executive order related to anti-Semitism or any other matter reeks of nepotism and self-serving obsequiousness.
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But it is telling that our established legal rules likely would deem Trump's self-serving denial too unreliable to use in court.
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The Time had their old dance moves, which some audience members joined in on, but the choice of material was self-serving.
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Contrary to the self-serving but baseless sky-is-falling predictions, banks have thrived under the law and economic growth has risen.
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Her self-serving colleague, Mike Hedges (Matthew Marsh), is out to get the suspect, too, and would love to see Clare fall.
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Haruko was self-serving and destructive, but Jinyu seems to protect Hidomi, shouting, "Don't lay a hand on her!" in the trailer.
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Not that the border crisis is one of Mr. Trump's self-serving political fictions — like the deep state or widespread voter fraud.
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He hides in the shadows, ducking subpoenas and frantically emailing his crazy self-serving ideas while flattering his way into Clinton's affections.
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Contrary to a self-serving myth among Israel's detractors, there's rarely a social or reputational penalty for publicly criticizing Israeli policies today.
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O'Rourke countered that Cruz was ineffective and self-serving in the Senate, more interested in his political career than in helping Texans.
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But her intentions aren't all self-serving — Michaela still enlists Oliver (Conrad Ricamora) to help her access the Antares files on Tegan's computer.
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VASANT NARASIMHAN: That's a pipeline -- not to be self-serving -- that I built as the head of drug development when I was there.
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It&aposs the same advice I offer Comey before he released his ridiculous self-serving book and went on that ridiculous book tour.
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If this is meant to help customers, it's as self-serving a way to do it as possible—and it could be dangerous.
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Whatever El Comandante decided it was -- for convenience, expedience or the increasingly baroque and self-serving rationalizations he provided for staying in power.
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And if Saturday's episode, "Untimely Resurrection," proves anything, it's that there are few—if any—limits to how self-serving she can be.
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Another is to "drain the swamp" of their respective capital cities by subjecting self-serving elites to the wrathful scrutiny of the people.
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That Democrat, who had been involved in preparing for this year's caucuses, called Perez's move a transparently self-serving gesture at their expense.
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Even if the final judgement on Facebook's self-serving interpretation of EU privacy rules will have to wait for the courts to decide.
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You do a great disservice to our nation and the Republican Party if you continue to enable Mr. Trump&aposs self-serving actions.
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You do a great disservice to the nation and the Republican Party if you continue to enable Mr. Trump&aposs self-serving actions.
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Why it matters: "There is a cottage industry of groups targeting vulnerable communities with self-serving borderline scams," CLC writes in its analysis.
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It is to do the hard work of abandoning this country's self-serving myths, and realizing that America's greatness is yet to come.
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Mervyn King, who was the governor of the Bank of England in 2003-13, sees such "instant memoirs" as "partial and self-serving".
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It has deplored the power of multinational corporations and appeared to give a relatively free pass to corrupt and self-serving state bureaucracies.
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Successful gossiping entails being a good team player and sharing key information with others in ways that won't be perceived as self-serving.
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And at the risk of being self-serving, there is no better place on the planet to begin this conversation than coastal Louisiana.
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We will not be distracted by this type of meritless, misguided and self-serving speculation and neither should anyone in the investor community.
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Citizens struggle to make sense of confusing messages entering the public sphere from propagandists, provocateurs, corporatists, political activists and other self-serving sources.
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It's hard to tell what the outcome will be, but things will be stirred up in ways that are comfortable and self-serving.
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The President's inattention arguably delayed a stronger response, and his misrepresentations, self-serving messages, and incompetent actions have only added to the problem.
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Whether or not America succeeds in joining the rest of us as a decent and less self-serving partner remains to be seen.
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But his ultimate takeaway about 1960 in 1962, when the pain was fresh and he hoped to make a comeback, was self-serving.
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Of course, in terms of self-serving machinations, Ms. Manigault Newman is bush league compared with the former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
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Where Hershman Leeson's work falls on the spectrum between brilliant conceptual art and ethically questionable, because self-serving, is part of the charm.
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But just because Republicans in Congress appear willing to enable this kind of self-serving tax legislation doesn't make it any less scandalous.
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"They were sold to us as economic development enterprises for the community, but I saw that as very self-serving," Ms. Cotera said.
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It took an angry, self-serving, nasty old white dude from beyond the political establishment to break through the noise he helped create.
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Trump's news conferences remain a self-serving mix of the most positive developments in the coronavirus fight, saved up for campaign-style announcements.
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Books that force us to confront our self-serving beliefs and make us aware that "I'm not racist" is a slogan of denial.
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"This self-serving bias matches unwitting consumers with objectively lower-quality information," Lowe will say in his testimony, provided to The Technology 202.
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But all too often, Wall Street today is focused on self-serving, bonus-driven, short-term trading and investments regardless of the consequences.
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This narrative was so nakedly self-serving that it's hard to believe that anyone took it seriously; but some influential people bought it.
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It would provide clarity for the American public writ large through a single comprehensive report, as opposed to scattered and self-serving leaks.
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" In the book, Kurtz writes that he doesn't like either political party and believes "even the best politicians can be self-serving hypocrites.
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While not itself notorious for economic corruption, Hezbollah has positioned itself, at this critical moment, as the guardian of Lebanon's self-serving establishment.
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He's narcissistic and self-serving, and he needs missteps that are faults of his own to shape his crucial, redemptive arc in Endgame.
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But it was Veep that truly nailed the ugly, absurd, self-serving, desperate, conniving, and hilariously incompetent truth of political life in America.
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Go deeper: Volker calls Ukraine allegations against Biden "self-serving and not credible" Hunter Biden and the glass floor for children of policitians
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With one apparently self-serving act, the president has polarized the country, broken an electoral promise, betrayed justice and enraged his own party.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Melania Trump had a message for U.S. President Donald Trump's first wife Ivana on Monday: Enough of the self-serving comments.
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"What began as an attempt to discredit the investigator has now devolved into delusional, self-serving paranoia," Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said.
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There's also the counter-theory that Swift's politics are just self-serving, that she's figured out how to game politics to sell albums.
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"Every poll that I've seen says that young people tend toward voting for Democrats, so I believe that it's self-serving," he said.
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So beware the hard and self-serving sell in which Facebook's 22014-year founder seeks yet again to recast privacy as an unaffordable luxury.
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Yes, Trump is using his Twitter account as his secret weapon — his megaphone that enables him to spread self-serving misinformation to the world.
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TREY GOWDY, (R-SC), CHAIRMAN, HOUSE OVERSIGHT AND GOVERNMENT REFORM COMMITTEE: Agent Strzok has a most unusual and largely self-serving definition of bias.
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No reasonable person assumes that even the most moral government tells the truth all the time, for reasons diplomatic as well as self-serving.
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What message have these self-serving senators sent to an abused child or rape victim still struggling to find the courage to speak out?
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In 0003 crowds of young people (dubbed los indignados) occupied city squares across the country, claiming that politicians had become self-serving and corrupt.
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"From the time this investigation began, statements provided by the Sacramento Police Department have proven to be self-serving, untrustworthy, and unreliable," he said.
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"The hypocrisy, the self-serving nature of the president's statements and his Republican allies here in the House and Senate is glaring," Schumer said.
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In the 1980s, when cultural institutions tended to be sloppily run and self-serving, the managerial revolution had much to be said for it.
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But in a paper published Thursday in the journal Nature, we present evidence that the roots of this outrage are, in part, self-serving.
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Authenticity shows up in consistency and just trying to make sure you're not confusing it or perceiving it as self-serving to the brand.
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But its themes resonate with the movement: the film portrays Mia's male sexual partners as creepy, self-serving menaces who only steal her agency.
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He has exploited the fact that talk of the long term and serving stakeholders can be a mask for being fat and self-serving.
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Unfortunately for the ethically considerate, there hasn't been any research that's systematically examined how we might get our memories to be less self-serving.
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Perception of Toronto as a city with palpable prosperity in the air, then, is little more than incredibly effective, yet harmful self-serving branding.
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The sprawling, chaotic storehouse of knowledge is governed by thousands of independent-minded volunteers committed to being neutral and allergic to self-serving manipulators.
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"Their proposal to scrap trials is a self-serving attempt to evade justice," said Elise Keppler, international justice associate director at Human Rights Watch.
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"My case is a silly witch hunt perpetrated by self-serving prosecutors," he posted on Facebook Thursday, after the first part of Brafman's argument.
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The excuse that the mobile web isn't fast enough is threadbare, and the solution of a special Google-designed sub-web transparently self-serving.
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The federal government, he declared, had been taken over by a corrupt, self-serving elite whose members aimed only at perpetuating themselves in office.
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" For Philbrick, both Arnold and his enemies offer proof that "the greatest danger to America's future came from self-serving opportunism masquerading as patriotism.
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Distinguishing between those situations isn't an eccentricity exclusive to a mythical self-serving left: It's the moral distinction behind an entire genre of literature.
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Mantashe also said on Sunday there was a need to deal with perceptions that the ANC was soft on corruption, arrogant and self-serving.
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Despite the president's recent assurances to the contrary, the administration's reckless, self-serving policies will not level the playing field for our nation's farmers.
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They were, however, in a difficult position, as any effort on their part would appear to be, and in reality would be, self-serving.
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"I think that there are a bunch of different self-serving reasons why an OEM would want to control the repair process," Slade said.
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Throughout the series, viewers see Annie perform the ultimate balancing act: She tries to stay true to herself and revel in self-serving decisions.
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In particular I felt that you had summarized our email exchange in a way that was self-serving and that I didn't agree with.
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But while the choice of what to release may well be self-serving, the veracity of the data itself is far harder to dispute.
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They satisfied a gross, aberrant desire within me but ultimately they made me long for someone respectable and worthy, not self-serving and sleazy.
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But indignation is a resource to be deployed carefully, on occasions when its importance outweighs its tendency to reinforce Trump's self-serving persecution narrative.
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And so Donald Trump's legacy spreads insidiously to the like-minded: Truth need no longer be sought when a self-serving story will do.
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Mr. Putin's autocratic tendencies have become self-serving, reinforcing his control of the political and economic levers of power, but they have also evolved.
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It's also consistent with the Washington tradition of self-serving conduct with an eye toward ensuring that you don't go down with the ship.
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Ms. Holtum said she respected Ms. Nickel's intentions but worried about the risks of teaming up with an industry with a self-serving agenda.
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Dr. Fauci chuckled at speculation that he was banished due to his habit of pushing back on Trump's hyperbolic and self-serving ad-libbing.
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Dr. Fauci chuckled at speculation that he was banished due to his habit of pushing back on Trump's hyperbolic and self-serving ad-libbing.
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Another recent book, the historian Nancy MacLean's "Democracy in Chains," provides a salutary lesson on the dangerous ways a self-serving ideology can spread.
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Hispanic children seem to pose a threat to America and its self-serving narrative as a nation of white-only, speak-English-only immigrants.
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This gamble cost him a significant amount of political capital, with many Mexicans regarding him as self-serving and disrespectful of the democratic process.
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This self-serving entrenchment was at the heart of two cases involving extreme partisan gerrymanders before the United States Supreme Court this past term.
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The sort of thing concocted by men whose collegiate experience taught them little beyond how to turn self-serving reminiscences into middling indie movies.
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Many of the aggrieved now see the elites, who offered to expedite progress while expanding their own power and wealth, as self-serving charlatans.
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A powerful few are using their resources to reshape public policy in line with their (unpopular but self-serving) ideals without sufficient public deliberation.
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"Elliott's value assertion for NXP is unsupportable and is clearly nothing more than an attempt to advance its own self-serving agenda," it said.
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Yet such claims look questionable, not to mention self-serving, after reading historic accounts of teahouses and the unmistakably democratic impulses that sometimes moved customers.
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So well done, Samsung, you forced your horrible piece of self-serving bloat on me, and in the process you extracted some additional personal information.
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No longer will liberal elites be allowed to impose their self-serving agenda and raise the price of energy at the expense of American consumers.
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Live by Night has some serious flaws, namely the story, which is a mess, and the character of Coughlin, who is far too self-serving.
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Critics have called Gillibrand's decision self-serving, saying she railroaded Franken in order to raise her own national profile as a combatter of sexual assault.
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Of which politician did our current Bagehot columnist write that "he is regarded by his friends and enemies alike as shallow, showboating and self-serving"?
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While, on the flip side, what if tech giants end up moving in on its territory by redefining privacy in their own self-serving image?
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Reacting to the tape, White House Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley described the frenzy as the work of a "disgruntled" and "self-serving" former official.
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Let stakeholder enthusiasts admit the danger of entrenching self-serving behaviour, while short-termists and shareholder-only investors and managers lengthen and broaden their perspective.
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You don't have to worry about coming off as self-serving if your initial note includes something the other person would find interesting or helpful.
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"The department has apparently decided it would rather pursue self-serving headlines on a matter of national significance than achieve an appropriate resolution," Indivior said.
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For what it's worth, though, I think that Issa is being completely self-serving in her decision not to disclose this information to her superior.
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Joining Singer's plea for an unrelenting assault portraying Trump as the self-serving foe of "the little guy" was Hewlett-Packard Chief Executive Meg Whitman.
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This newspaper has long argued that either the judicial system or voters—not self-serving politicians trying to impeach her—should decide the president's fate.
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Between the War of 1812 and Jackson's election, ordinary citizens and upstart politicians increasingly complained that established political elites had become unresponsive and self-serving.
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Politicians of the left and right argue that American capitalism fails ordinary people because it has been rigged by a cabal of self-serving elitists.
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They've recruited E Corp PR rookie sensation Angela, whose turn toward a robotic, self-serving personality has been a pretty big drag on Season 2.
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One might also wield the historian's skills to tell a "truer," better story that exposes the myth for the self-serving fraud that it is.
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"I am relieved that with the help of the FBI these politicians will be held accountable for their self serving and criminal actions!" he wrote.
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Is there any question why President Trump is swimming upstream against the tide of intelligence agency inaccuracy, and political as well as self-serving, agendas?
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There's a major downside to this tendency, however, because the quick reactions and decisions we jump to can often be unfair, self-serving and counterproductive.
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Ironically, despite Facebook's self-serving appeals to anti-Chinese sentiments, China's experience offers plentiful cautionary tales of how Libra could go wrong for American consumers.
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Part of Veronica Mars' original genius was its ability to show us the corruption in Neptune without its commentary ever feeling grim or self-serving.
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" Robert Zimmerman, a Democratic National Committee member, said Mr. Cohen might be telling the truth now, but he added he believes it's "completely self-serving.
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Not surprisingly, tens of millions of voters have concluded that the proclamations of the national security barons amount to little more than self-serving rhetoric.
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Although he wasn't immune to hyperbole, he had an old-school chain-smoking newspaper editor's hatred of self-serving hypocrisy, particularly in other television hosts.
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We must fight back against this self-serving, ill-advised ideology because hard-working people and forward-looking communities need more — not less — public transportation.
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Mr. Incredible transforms into Mr. Indignant, declaring that they didn't start the fight, which is an amusingly self-serving way to jump-start a sequel.
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The debate over why, how and who watches whom has at times descended into a self-serving back-and-forth between the police and protesters.
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Mr. Bentley had run as a moral exemplar and a man of humility — but instead was revealed, by copious evidence, as a self-serving bully.
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Rather, they argue, impeachment was created for precisely a situation in which a self-serving public official defied the public trust — legal violation or none.
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"The statement released is clearly self-serving, slanderous and offensive, not only to my client, but to victims both silent and outspoken, everywhere," he added.
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The reign of Cersei I will be based in the same sort of self-serving, Lannister-promoting strategy we've seen before, just with fewer restraints.
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But he rejected much of the excess of what came to distinguish New York, beginning in the 1980s — the self-serving habits and misplaced priorities.
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And yet, the emphasis of that key differentiator seems to have been neutered by self-serving calls for unity from the more establishment friendly candidates.
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The self-serving and opportunistic attacks from Clinton and her followers served to erode faith in extremely important institution for the sake of political gain.
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" The administration also offered the somewhat self-serving argument that N.Y.U.'s "presence in these nations and societies brings more freedom of ideas, not less.
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But the question of America's fitful, ill-defined and often self-serving foreign policies holds dangers that go far beyond even Russia's most expansionist ambitions.
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Both the law and common sense tell us that a self-serving denial made after a person has been caught carries limited if any value.
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The struggle to be good is central to many of these stories, never mind that the characters' good intentions are often misdirected or self-serving.
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While his methods may be bumbling, self-serving and diplomatically incompetent, Trump is right to advance the process of serious U.S. military reductions from Afghanistan.
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Little unnerving -- but fascinating to be in the middle of a ginned-up, self-serving shit-storm pushed by fake, in-the-bag partisan media.
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Any true sense or sign of collaboration in this work was trumped by Neto's self-serving arrogance, and by the lingering colonial gestures he perpetuated.
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"This is an unconscionable and gruesomely damaging manipulation of innocent children for vindictive and self-serving motives," he read from a two-page written statement.
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Confident that we can see through self-serving claims of the hacks and flacks, we question them, and even applaud those who voice our own sentiments.
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"Opposing arguments are self-serving statements from those who profit by the way that trades are intermediated today," said IEX president and co-founder Ronan Ryan.
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They're presented as blends of self-serving and altruistic — with a keen sense of justice, yet a cloudy moral compass and without a lot to lose.
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"It is deeply troubling that Congress would celebrate such a negligent and self-serving financial behemoth," Craig Holman of the watchdog group Public Citizen told Politico.
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They love his type of politics: loud, ugly, self-serving, attention-grabbing, an approach in which a fierce attitude trumps any sort of discernible political policy.
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Until then, I'll be pulling my copy out at parties, delivering each juicy detail, and relishing — against my will — every single self-serving moment of it.
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France seemed to be trapped by immobilisme, a state of fearful conservatism shaped by self-serving political parties, entrenched interests, risk aversion and lack of confidence.
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Some thought Kurt's uninformed and self-serving ideas for Relational Experiments shouldn't be tolerated and some thought letting him think he had an impact was strategic.
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His push for the Obamacare shutdown, and the bill of goods he sold the party's base, was a particularly remarkable exercise in self-serving political cynicism.
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This is a not-so-subtle dig at Trump's "charitable" efforts, which amount to self-serving work by his foundation and not a whole lot else.
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Critics say his time as mayor reflected his political failings - pushing through costly, self-serving projects, which included the world's most expensive cable car and footbridge.
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Voters sent establishment politicians from both parties a message: we want real leadership, results, and are sick and tired of your phony, self-serving political grandstanding.
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That is, move away from an inward-looking, self-serving entity to one that is geared towards meeting customer needs first and its profit motive second.
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Returning control of our environment to the states also limits the dark money from self-serving lobbyists and deep-pocketed special interest groups masquerading as environmentalists.
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Every season, teams petition the NFL's Competition Committee for reactive, often self-serving changes, and the committee considers and implements them as best they see fit.
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This is viewed as preferable to judging and governing them on their own terms, which are deemed liable to lead to corruption and self-serving behavior.
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They are scornful of the self-serving technocrats who said that the euro would improve their lives and that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
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In his Saturday night Facebook post Zuckerberg himself seemed to conflate a self-serving impetus to keep users on the platform, with the company's public service.
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The New York civil complaint filed yesterday seeking compensation from Sandals presents a self-serving, one-sided and incomplete version of an incident reported in 2016.
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That was, in part, self-serving: It helped Republicans explain why they'd lost a House seat that Trump had won by 20 percentage points in 2016.
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The rapper's most impactful statements about women — specifically, the way Black women are policed and burdened with heavier expectations than everyone else — have been self-serving.
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Their hard work—real or imagined—goes unrewarded while self-serving elites and the minorities who enjoy their favour reap privileged access to wealth and power.
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In the glare of a general election, a few observers have argued Trump's reactions on Twitter to tragic events appear to sound offensive and self-serving.
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And because Versus Systems has built a white-label platform for publishers to offer in-game rewards, the study might also seem a bit self-serving.
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The voice of legitimate ticket brokers is easily lost in the loud, well-financed, and self-serving outcry of large, powerful sellers in the primary market.
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Startups can stay hands off and let engineers tinker with projects that are self serving, all the while monitoring progress to recruit the best new developers.
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His push for the Obamacare shutdown, and the bill of goods he sold the party's base, was a particularly remarkably exercise in self-serving political cynicism.
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Her narrowly focused behavior can be hard to watch; in these moments, Dory's focus becomes just as insular and self-serving as that of her friends.
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But such fine points tend to elude people insisting on the most convenient, self-serving narrative available, and Zeigler was rationalizing his sustained support for Moore.
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Some have seen his philosophical exposition of holism and personhood as self-serving efforts to disguise political contradictions in the name of a higher human purpose.
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Bitcoin's true believers (often libertarians) say that the modern financial system is corrupt, governed by self-serving elites, and that paper money is a dangerous fiction.
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Instead, as we've seen, the major airlines charge what they can get away with and spend the profit on stock buybacks and other self-serving enterprises.
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But it is especially dismaying when science-denying hacks and self-serving industries block action that is in the obvious and urgent interest of all humanity.
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Sitting as judge and jury, Judge Leon seemed to buy AT&T's self-serving testimony, ignoring or dismissing the warnings of most people in the industry.
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Instead, it focuses on the danger of what happens when a self-serving lie enters a bureaucracy and worms its way through the chain of command.
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Anti-pot PSAs didn't emerge through a slow process of social change, but in a rapid eruption of self-serving bigotry divorced from science or fact.
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They are just power-hungry, self-serving politicians whose goal is to play-act as president — rather than actually defend the freedoms enshrined in our Constitution.
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Tessa and Lex try to instruct Ziggy in the ways of oppression, but they do it in the most misinformed, self-serving, and wrongheaded ways possible.
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It was therefore evident from the day he was hired that Bolton simply would not be able to tolerate the president's self-serving impulsiveness and inconsistency.
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Either way, the motive for making the joke is rather self-serving, but, in aggregate, the shallowness of the act doesn't negate the potential positive effects.
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One would be to ensure that hard-earned savings aren't siphoned off by self-serving advisers — but Mr. Trump has put the brakes on that effort.
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And so the whole thing seems gratuitous, self-serving and, most importantly, quite removed from the very fraught relationship most of us have with our phones.
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As we saw with the recent cut in the corporate tax rate, those corporations and the richest Americans have a very clear, self-serving political agenda.
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Analysts saw the comments as self-serving, in that Mr. Kolomoisky stands to lose billions of dollars under a banking sector overhaul backed by Western governments.
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Ohio State suspends fraternity activities "They presented many of the same answers as each other and volunteered much self-serving information without being asked," it said.
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But the source for this figure is a Congressional Research Service report that merely summarized the self-serving analysis from the Interior Department championing the rule.
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Twitter's move into decentralization might be self-serving, but if it produces a better alternative to the current platform, that's good news for millions of users.
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The horror is that if Tillerson becomes Secretary of State, he could bring his self-serving definition of what counts as a subsidy to international forums.
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But even if you think it's self-serving, Sanders's call to include independents in primaries raises a critical question for the future of the Democratic Party.
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Although self-serving research is common in the pharmaceutical industry, Pfizer's success with yielding research to convince people they need this particular drug is an outlier.
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Payne has talked about the film as an environmental metaphor, and the film's interest in the self-serving excesses of the privileged upper class isn't exactly subtle.
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But — while this narrative of the coastal media mea culpa is, to a certain extent, true and deserved — mainly I find it inaccurate, passive, and self-serving.
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And here's my self-serving theory: the harder the IPO (the filing, the launch, the aftermath), the more emotionally prepared you are for being a public company.
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Kha's work here makes me see that only self-serving rationalizations or a refusal to recognize their humanity prevent me from understanding these things in a kiss.
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It may be nonsense that "the people" are infallible repositories of common sense, but there is no doubt that liberal elites have been smug and self-serving.
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Of course, Trump isn't the only one who reliably warps black lives and history in a self-serving manner -- he's his own kind of microcosm of America.
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But rather than portray this as the misguided love afforded to the curt and restrictive love of Kratos, it becomes paranoid, needy—a self-serving, asphyxiating love.
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He promised that, by dredging Washington of the elites and lobbyists too stupid or self-serving to act for the whole nation, he would fix America's politics.
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" The following day, Koma, 32, shared a lengthy statement on Twitter and Instagram to tell his side of the story, calling Zedd "so toxic and self-serving.
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Jackson's take is both badly written and self-serving, but his assessment (branding problems, bad tech infrastructure) was echoed in Ashlee Vance's Musk biography by other sources.
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However, issues with the credibility and frequency of the claims, along with what some may interpret as their self-serving nature, will likely backfire with many voters.
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As self-serving as that is, O'Reilly is on to something in terms of "60 Minutes'" role in transforming news into showbiz, and thus a profit center.
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Whipping fans into a mock-frenzy over which side they want to be on in a debate they haven't heard yet is just self-serving commercial nonsense.
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Lord King has produced a worthy book, but a shamelessly self-serving account of his role during the financial crisis would have been a lot more fun.
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It's also typically self-serving: People aren't watching football anymore because they're watching Trump and also because the country is falling apart (which only Trump can fix).
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Their words are variously reflective and blunt, candid and self-serving, but the film's purpose is less to relitigate past events than to make sense of them.
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For example, it's crucial to make an active contribution to the group, but without appearing self-serving and as if you're interested only in finding job opportunities.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission is wading into the long-running battle over how to protect consumers from their broker or advisor offering self-serving investment advice.
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His first theory is that Trump is just being Trump; everyone knew he was self-serving, sleazy and held an untutored understanding of world alliances, writes Douthat.
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Macy managed to distinguish himself from his self-serving Shameless counterpart in a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly in which he voiced his support for Rossum's decision.
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" Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued statement rejecting "India's self-serving insinuations" and said its "resolve, actions and successes" in fighting terrorism "is unmatched in the world.
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And how could she be self-serving when she passed up a chance to cash in at some prestigious law school to do children's advocacy work instead?
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But overall, the findings help extend our understanding of our self-serving biases, showing our egotism and self-confidence can sometimes spill-over to our loved ones.
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The canny former KGB officer will surely use an unstructured tête-à-tête to try to win Trump over to the Russian president's own self-serving views.
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First, Trump's lies, exaggerations and self-serving boasts may not bother his most loyal followers, but the rest of the world is not a Trump MAGA rally.
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This should include managing the complexities of the palace politics and a horde of the self-serving political mafia who engage in intrigue, deception and harmful machinations.
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"I believe Mr. Woolley's memo contained a number of errors, misstatements and omissions that were self-serving and significantly changed the context of the conversation," he said.
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Alex Jones should not be anyone's free speech martyr -- his content is self-serving (his conspiratorial rants are used to sell overpriced supplements to preppers) and dangerous.
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But the award demonstrated the president's success in persuading a Washington elite that he is a reformer in a region notorious for corruption and self-serving leadership.
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If he is shoved out of the field somehow, his supporters will remain bitter and enraged, convinced that a self-serving and malign elite defeated their leader.
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Image via YouTube Social media can be a vapid, self-serving circle of bullshit that makes us feel continuously dissatisfied with our own seemingly sub-par existence.
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This core power asymmetry is maintained and topped off by self-serving policy positions which at best fiddle around the edges of an inherently anti-humanitarian system.
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The self-serving aspect is beautifully embodied by Joachim's widowed daughter-in-law, Sophie (a great, glacial Elsa Lepoivre) and her opportunistic lover, Friedrich Bruckmann (Guillaume Gallienne).
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Mr. Trump thrives on chaos because at the core he is not defined by a set ideology; rather he is a self-serving opportunist who exploits situations.
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Conflating those things is disgusting Spacey's self-serving piece of shit diversion is going to make life appreciably shittier for every queer man not named Kevin Spacey.
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As with liberalism in academia, the left-wing tilt in tech may be smug and self-serving, but it doesn't stop conservatives from getting their messages across.
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That process is a self-serving one, allowing us to function day-to-day, tweaking our personal narrative to support who we are or want to be.
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If I were to report this colleague, I would potentially be securing additional employment for myself to rewrite the courses, which could be viewed as self-serving.
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Recasting US-China geopolitical tensions (once again) in a self-serving light, Zuckerberg is now advancing the argument that his firm champions free-and-open internet values.
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Mr. Modi has effectively mobilized those Indians who have long felt marginalized and humiliated by India's self-serving Nehruvian elite into a large vote bank of ressentiment.
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Dr. Rucker said it was self-serving for physicians and hospitals, which may benefit financially from keeping patients and their data captive, to play up privacy concerns.
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Convinced by right-wing critics that their universities were in the hands of a self-serving elite, state legislatures cut back drastically on contributions to university budgets.
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With that being said, I recognize that this "emotional exposure" can seem self-serving, and while it has been personally therapeutic for me, that's never my goal.
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What I resent is when I express an opinion, some people will assume it can't be true, or it must be self-serving, because I'm a celebrity.
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Confident assertions by technocratic elites that the benefits of global capitalism will eventually "trickle down" have turned out to be equally disingenuous, if not brazenly self-serving.
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Members of the public who attended the BoE's Open Forum last November on fixing the financial sector described the industry as self-serving, greedy, corrupt and destructive.
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The administration should see through this self-serving effort and remove the Chukchi and Beaufort seas from the 85033-2022 Outer Continental Shelf Five-Year Leasing Program.
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He points to Trump's statements where he boasts his wealth, his ability to build "great" walls and his intellectual prowess as evidence of this self-serving attitude.
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"What were witnessing is a lot of self-serving posturing," said Grand Chief Stewart Phillip of the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs, who opposes the project.
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Whatever the collectors Robert and Ethel Scull did for the art world, they were self-serving narcissists, as Andy Warhol's portrait "Ethel Scull 36 Times" (1963) demonstrates.
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Abuse of power is partly about what's being done, but a great deal of it is about the reasons — self-serving and anti-democratic — behind the actions.
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Even when his facts were true, he used them in a self-serving way that may appeal to his supporters, but is just as dangerous as telling lies.
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As we've pointed out already, his written testimony is pretty selective and self-serving in terms of what he does and doesn't include in his version of events.
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It can't allow a window into wild, self-serving and possibly even criminal behavior by the President in his dealings with Ukraine that could turn Americans against him.
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Criticizing Freenet's opposition as "self-serving," Sunrise touted updated expectations of 280 million francs in annual synergies from buying the Liberty business, 45 million more than previously forecast.
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Criticising Freenet's opposition as "self-serving", Sunrise touted updated expectations of 27 million francs in annual synergies from buying the Liberty business, 0.9824.5 million more than previously forecast.
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From Harlan's dysfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web of red herrings and self-serving lies to uncover the truth behind Harlan's untimely death.
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But one has to wonder whether their focus on the H-1B visa program — which lots of people agree actually is in need of reform — isn't self-serving.
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But it's always troubling when, given a tool that can very easily be used for both humanitarian purposes and self-serving ones, we only hear about the former.
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His destructive tactics were supposed to topple a self-serving Washington elite, but the president's bullying, lying and sleaze have filled the swamp faster than it has drained.
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Summers said the plan rules out some of the most-needed changes to infrastructure, forgoing critical repairs to roads and schools in favor of more self-serving measures.
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Trump must understand, however, that Putin is not above using a proffered hand of friendship to win free movement for his self-serving goals in the Middle East.
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" Krause found playing Anna's vulnerabilities just as exciting: "She's a powerful, self-serving, confident, and intelligent businesswoman, and she gets to fall in love for the first time.
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So when Cruz showered praise upon Trump, it was for completely self-serving reasons — he was being exactly the disingenuous politician he constantly accuses his rivals of being.
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And from that self-serving perspective almost anything becomes possible — as if Facebook is arguing that breaking data protection law might really be the 'ethical' thing to do.
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But it's self-serving at best — and a little disingenuous — for those anchors to downplay the concerns expressed about Fox News as an organization or its primetime hosts.
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It's disappointing to her that she is lashing out and retaliating in such a self-serving way, especially after all the opportunities given to her by the President.
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Some have reached out to people in their past via preemptive and occasionally self-serving missives, hoping to assess or apologize for the potential damage of their actions.
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" Sean Hannity at the top of his show: "I have a message for those of you who work in... the White House: Enough with the self-serving leaks!
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It's disappointing to her that she is lashing out and retaliating in such a self-serving way, especially after all the opportunities given to her by the president.
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As you'll recall ... Thomas seemed to get shunned by the Royals shortly after the wedding for going to the media, a move perceived by many as self-serving.
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These were exceptions to his standard operating procedure being created as part of a deliberate plan to generate self-serving material for him to use against the president.
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For two, it seems extremely self-serving and strange for Trump to emphasize that he's not under investigation while firing one of the nation's top law enforcement officials.
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What started as a self-serving industrialist, sacrificed his own life to ensure the safety of the universe against the threat of Thanos (Josh Brolin) and his minions.
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This is easy to miss, Scott argues, because we still imagine history through the self-serving and binary stories that the earliest civilizations have passed on to us.
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In a statement on Monday, Mr. Stepien's lawyer, Kevin Marino, called Mr. Wildstein's testimony "sad and self-serving," noting that his client was never charged in the case.
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The issue here concerns the longstanding game played by self-serving interests that reduce nature to a commodity and that exploit the great American outdoors for private gain.
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I saw these divides emerge in the Tea Party, where self-serving "leaders" — but really just insiders — tried to take control of the movement to their own benefit.
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Long before Mr. Trump posed as his own spokesman, passing self-serving tidbits to gossip columnists, Mr. Cohn was known to call in stories about himself to reporters.
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Mr. Cavanaugh's response disputed that memo, saying it contained "a number of errors, misstatements and omissions that were self-serving and significantly changed the context of the conversation."
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"There's almost no problem probed in this book, no myth, no cloud of self-serving justification that I haven't found a way of being part of," he acknowledges.
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His book is short and, whether one finds it compelling, self-serving or pretentious -- those, with some overlap, seem to be the most popular takeaways -- it never drags.
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But even among the many who believed that the company had become short-term greedy, there were those who viewed Mr. Smith's critique as bitter and self-serving.
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"It is my fervent hope that nobody else will suffer the persecution that had been levied on me through self-serving interpretation and implementation of the law," Mrs.
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The Definitive Guide to Business with Marcus Lemonis As the host of CNBC's "The Profit," Marcus Lemonis knows how to differentiate between the sincere and the self-serving.
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For Luther, nothing he didn't personally hear reverberating within the words of Scripture could be sanctioned, including the vast hierarchy of the church and its self-serving dictums.
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Violet Paley, one of the women who accused Mr. Franco of misconduct, said Thursday in a telephone interview that his public statements rang hollow and seemed self-serving.
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For a very long time, this was taken not as a self-serving fantasy but as a token of honesty, or freedom from sentimental conceptions of domestic love.
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It's worth noting that the president's lawyers offered their own reasons for why the Senate shouldn't hear from additional witnesses, flawed and self-serving as they may be.
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At the G20 Summit, his steadfast preference for the self-serving assessments of Russian President Vladimir Putin over those of his own country's intelligence agencies was particularly insidious.
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President Trump has made many more false statements than any of his modern predecessors, and only some of his falsehoods pass the test of not being self-serving.
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Such a self-serving hallucination about the Electoral College would have been the takeaway from any other president's news conference — good for a solid week of media mastication.
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Ms Wilson notes Epicurean contempt for religious superstition, self-serving clergy and faith-based warfare, but sees common ground with believers in the shared conviction that "morality matters".
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When he writes her fake, self-serving letters, supposedly from her fiancé, it's laughable because his jealousy and attempts to disrupt their relationship are so transparent and childish.
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The real challenge is the food industry's inability to embrace a more socially responsible approach to aligning with consumer values, versus self-serving policies that protect members' margins.
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Sina, one of the first Chinese tech companies to list its shares in New York, has called Aristeia "self-serving" and naïve about how China's internet sector works.
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It lands like a rotten egg on a political and media establishment that had gone all-in on its own self-serving — and wrong — theory of the case.
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Those users are then left to watch Twitter implement sleek but self-serving versions of those features, allowing a visionless company to succeed further than it already has.
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At any point in this poem, he could have gotten bogged down (or should I say wallowed) some self-serving, self-pitying, self-aggrandizing memory, but he didn't.
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With antitrust and political scrutiny of Google and other tech giants stepping up internationally and domestically, any self-serving competition 'fixes' do look to be operating on borrowed time.
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We take this step because our commitment does not allow us to remain a part of a hypocritical and self-serving organization that makes a mockery of human rights.
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But to start off your tenure in office with an action that is shady and secretive as well as self-serving is to take self-harm to another level.
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Noted black feminist Mikki Kendall took the rapper to task, remarking that "White Privilege II" is a safe, self-serving move that doesn't provide solutions for black America's ills.
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Johnson is far from adored by his fellow MPs, many of whom see him as crass and self-serving, but their reservations are much less pronounced this time around.
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Of course there are self-serving motivations here—tax reforms and visa policies, which in part fall under the power of Trump, both greatly impact Silicon Valley's bottom lines.
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Trump admires dictators and strongmen; he dismisses the press as fake news and ethics rules as unnecessary niceties; he lies without compunction and delights in self-serving conspiracy theories.
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Westbrook also acquired critics that asserted that her video was self-serving, and that she made it for personal gain, and not to protect the integrity of beauty vlogging.
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Award shows have always been an awkward home for political messaging; they offer a prominent platform, but they're also self-serving events at which industries pay tribute to themselves.
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Surely one reason is that liberals fear being denounced by commentators such as Mr Davies, who suggests that "free speech warriors" are self-serving, handmaidens of the alt-right.
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"Just as important, I will see to it that the will of the American people is not derailed by the left or the self-serving Washington establishment," he added.
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But over the weekend, it announced a new national TV ad set to be released this week, which attacks Trump over his self-serving response to the Brexit vote.
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Across the world, in both the northern and southern hemispheres, there are politicians who are too self-serving, or too spiteful, to care for and protect the most vulnerable.
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Judging from Trump's statement, he is simply taking Qatar's neighbors at their self-serving word and he is letting himself-and the U.S.-be used to legitimize their vendettas.
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"To argue that a game that offers daily monetary prizes and touts itself as a path out of debt is entirely altruistic is self-serving and naive," she said.
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The remarks were as self-serving as they were reckless, revealing the startling degree to which IBM is willing to forfeit the future for the sake of the present.
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MALKIN: And you can see the psychological projection here of John Brennan using words like self-adoring and self-serving to describe our president when he is describing himself.
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Bannon's understanding of him is in line with both these realities: that he has leadership qualities Trump seems to admire, and that he is a self-serving dictatorial leader.
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" In response, Melania Trump's spokeswoman fired back, saying, "There is clearly no substance to this statement from an ex, this is unfortunately only attention-seeking and self-serving noise.
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He sheds light on political abuses of power, human rights violations, and the complicity of oppressive regimes in denying citizens their senses and voices for self-serving political gains.
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Reviews like this from Ta-Nehisi Coates are not going to help her secure that continued support: Yet until relatively recently, this self-serving version of history was dominant.
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The only party that clearly benefits from sanctuary laws are the self-serving politicians who support them, as such laws create a permanent underclass in need of a champion.
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Conservatives like Continetti have good reason for wanting to whitewash this fact and now they have an ally in Dowd, who is mainstreaming their self-serving version of history.
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There are times when such efforts can appear profoundly self-serving; when bearing witness or showing compassion feels more like public performance than real acknowledgment or understanding of another.
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" In a statement GE said: "We remain focused on running our business every day and ... will not be distracted by this type of meritless, misguided and self-serving speculation.
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The key critique of American government articulated in the 2016 election was that the establishment had become fundamentally self-interested, self-serving, and had forgotten about the common man.
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Manafort's defense attorneys, led by veteran tax litigator Kevin Downing, painted Gates as a self-serving underling who may have actually been responsible for the crimes alleged by prosecutors.
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To fight back against Comey, Trump's allies have launched a campaign to discredit him as a self-serving, disingenuous, attention-seeking ex-lawman who just wants to sell books.
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Bannon's understanding of him fits in line with both these realities: that he has leadership qualities Trump seems to admire, and that he is a self-serving dictatorial leader.
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Countries who remain in the Not Free tier, attempting to impose their self-serving political and social values would find themselves completely isolated, visibly violating digital human rights law.
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Yet when a reactor in Ukraine exploded and started spewing lethal radiation, the Soviet system quickly reverted to old habits of self-serving lies, manipulation of information and secrecy.
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So they accepted self-serving explanations that the crisis resulted from mass hysteria, that nobody was truly "responsible," and moved the employees seamlessly into other parts of their business.
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The right response has seemed to me to be to listen, read, reflect and quiet the impulse to offer opinions that are likely to sound premature or self-serving.
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" Ms. Grisham added a tabloidlike coup de grâce: "There is clearly no substance to this statement from an ex, this is unfortunately only attention-seeking and self-serving noise.
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"It would be irresponsible to rely on this extremely bizarre, self-serving affidavit," said Mr. Merritt, who has also questioned why the authorities did not immediately arrest Officer Guyger.
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The middle-class pundits who tell the poor that their lives would be better if they had two kids instead of five are also making a self-serving statement.
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Schiff again took aim at Alan Dershowitz's assertion last week that a president could not be impeached for any abuse of power, no matter how egregious or self-serving.
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When NBA star Dwyane Wade's cousin was killed recently in yet another act of senseless gun violence (also in Chicago), Trump's response was predictably self-serving and tone deaf.
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Some of Trump's tweets are informational (regarding his prospective policies), some are self-serving (promoting himself), and some are confrontational (attacking stories or people that have negatively portrayed him).
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He responded as a weak man, at the bottom of a self-destructive spiral, and with an addict's self-serving delusion that the communications were all just Internet fantasy.
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Politicians often chew the scenery with long-winded, self-serving wind-ups, but Zuckerberg was peppered with some fairly pointed questions that got to the heart of the issue.
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Yet even when Trump tries appealing to the people with a vain, cynical and self-serving argument, he reveals how out-of-touch he truly is with real people.
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I will wonder if this pattern of seeking America's approval and feeling burned by the country's rejection or self-serving choices will ever teach Vietnam to quit the superpower.
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Yet the parents of children left with Jackson have made themselves vulnerable by admitting they neglected basic safeguarding norms -- it is hard to imagine their confession is self-serving.
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Will the work of the future bring ever-ballooning inequality under the guise of what is ultimately the slick, self-serving "philanthropy" of Billionaire Humanism and Winners Take All?
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"This is another nail in the coffin of Boris Johnson's self-serving legacy at a huge cost to the taxpayer," former Liberal Democrat MP for Bermondsey, Simon Hughes, said.
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"True root cause imo is an exponential growth in bureaucracy & a self-serving private sector consultant industry earning a % on project cost, incenting them to maximize cost," he wrote.
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In fact, volunteering is one of the most self-serving things I do, because whenever I help out at the horse barn, my stress and anxiety levels noticeably drop.
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But when the time came for responses the data flow was not reciprocal; Self-serving talking points on self-selected "themes" was all he had come prepared to serve up.
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This wasn't the type of self-serving aspirational quote written on a Post-it note and attach to the refrigerator as a daily reminder of an out-of-reach goal.
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While certainly a self-serving assessment, incidents like last year's Equifax breach demonstrate how much of our data is out there—and how easily it can fall into unintended hands.
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There's a less self-serving benefit to making a connection to other animals, as well, which is an increased awareness that we are not the only beings on the planet.
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The secrecy and confusion of the immigration ban are a sign not of failure, but of how his people shun the self-serving experts who habitually subvert the popular will.
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So long as those who exercise power are secretive and self-serving—and so long as democratic citizens value vigilance and even a degree of mistrust—it always will be.
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"Johnny Depp's lawsuit filed today reflects his continued stand against systemic, self-serving Hollywood practices that he hopes this lawsuit will expose and end," Depp's lawyer, Adam Waldman, tells PEOPLE.
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During the primary season, Trump rose to prominence by attacking the "establishment" elements of his party, whom he painted as self-serving and unconcerned with the general populace's well-being.
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Citing thinkers from Adam Smith to Aretha Franklin, he chides both the audience (and himself) for their self-serving belief that they are richer than others because they are better.
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Yet not knowing isn't any kind of defence when your business stands accused of defective oversight, self-serving opacity and having a vacuum where its moral compass should be. Accountability?
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Trump's opposition appears to be more self-serving, and dovetails with the reality TV star's increasingly vocal complaints about a media conspiracy to "rig" the presidential election against him. Sen.
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"Anthony Levandowski's supposed excuse for downloading more than 14,000 confidential Waymo files was self-serving and more than just suspicious – it was entirely made-up," said Waymo in a statement.
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Couple that with the Palestinian Authority's self-serving kleptocracy, and only a fool would gamble on the Palestinians' ability to keep a state out of the hands of radical Islamists.
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"We remain focused on running our business every day and ... will not be distracted by this type of meritless, misguided and self-serving speculation," the company said in a statement.
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But, like all corporate-specific training programs, the goal is a self-serving one: the more people that know how to use Google's commercial offerings, the more money Google makes.
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This is a classic ego-protection strategy and something social psychologists refer to as the self-serving bias, the general tendency to blame anyone but yourself when you experience failure.
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We should keep in mind that these leaks are almost surely coming from Trump's own team, so there could be some self-serving spin involved about what Mueller's letter said.
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And all the while Facebook is putting a heavy sell on, in the self-serving ad 'explanations' it does offer, spinning the line that ad targeting is useful for users.
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People who tell small, self-serving lies are likely to progress to bigger falsehoods, and over time, the brain appears to adapt to the dishonesty, according to a new study.
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"Putin is very clever in giving a distorted and self-serving version of history on some of these substantive issues," said Alexander Vershbow, a former United States ambassador to Russia.
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His performances have included not just the usual self-serving boasts and the cringe-inducing attacks on the media and his political enemies, but something else; something new and disturbing.
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Ms. Arroyo's efforts to stack the bench were presciently self-serving: The court dismissed corruption charges against her in July 2016 — just a few weeks after Mr. Duterte became president.
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His comments are the latest example of his asking the public to discount what it sees with its own eyes and instead believe his own self-serving version of reality.
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This Op-Ed is a misguided and self-serving attempt to justify an unjustifiable position, keeping a president in office who is a danger to the country and its institutions.
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They complain that Mr. Xi, who is expected to strengthen his hold on power at a party meeting this month, is turning public education into a self-serving propaganda exercise.
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In an era in which corporate America is arguably more swollen and self-serving than it has ever been, the change to a paradigm such as stakeholder governance is imperative.
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I thought that I would feel sorry for the country, and for its citizens, having been misled by self-serving politicians, and now facing an uncertain political and economic future.
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Smollett's attorneys claim the criminal charges against the him were brought forth in "bad faith" and "based on the Osundairo Brothers' false, self-serving, and unreliable statements," court documents say.
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Smollett's attorneys claim the criminal charges against the actor were brought forth in "bad faith" and "based on the Osundairo Brothers' false, self-serving, and unreliable statements," court documents say.
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The firm called her lawsuit, which depicted Sedgwick's culture as clubby and paternalistic, a "self-serving" and "disingenuous" exercise in a legal filing to move the contentious dispute to arbitration.
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That is unlikely to change anytime soon, and that has nothing to do with the largely ignored and self-serving French pleadings for the "re-founding" of the European Union.
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It is a dumping ground for whichever policymaker, think tank lanyard, or corporate CEO might want to publish some poorly-written—and self-serving—dreck about public policy that day.
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Was this his self-serving way of disguising his own negligence toward the little parishioner he hoped to make into a saint, or did Sarah Jacob actually wish to die?
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" Regular rules of evidence don't apply to an impeachment proceeding, Honig noted, but "our established legal rules likely would deem Trump's self-serving denial too unreliable to use in court.
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Because you know that nightclubs are sacred spaces where only a set few things are allowed to happen and any deviation from these is frowned upon by the self-serving community.
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We need to stop pretending that concepts such as call outs, cancellations, self-care, and energy protection aren't often individualistic, self-serving, and capitalistic notions veiled in so-called 'woke' language.
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"'It Ain't Cool' is an observation on the culture at large: self-serving politicians, the lack of integrity, greed destroying capitalism, where money is the justification for everything," Sudano told PEOPLE.
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Europe and America are in the throes of a popular rebellion against liberal elites, who are seen as self-serving and unable, or unwilling, to solve the problems of ordinary people.
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"This self-serving intimidation of SAG-AFTRA members is meant to limit their opportunities to be seen and honor the work of their fellow artists throughout the season," the union added.
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The swap is ostensibly the result of a move by Tencent in April to sanitise content, after a crackdown on popular online platforms by government regulators, but is also self-serving.
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When the two most obvious components of modern public life are noise and money, members' daylight hours are devoured by fundraising and appeasing the loudest interests — often self-serving and narrow.
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The self-governing solution the TV industry proposed to Congress and the FCC more than 20 years ago isn't really self-governing, it's self-serving – and it isn't working for families.
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Alternatively, it could be seen as the minimal possible substance required for the surrounding spectacle and its self-serving claims of a historic peace deal to be sustained by both parties.
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As complex as each story seems, the broader takeaway is pretty simple: Facebook has an enormous amount of information about you, and they're sharing it in secretive and self-serving ways.
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While he has built charitable efforts and equality into his own company, and he admits there is a self-serving component to this, he believes that companies need to give back.
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No court has ever teased out exactly what the clauses entail, but Mr Trump's reading is both ahistorical (ignoring founding-era dictionary definitions of "emolument" as "profit") and implausibly self-serving.
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All conspiracies about Netflix's self-serving intentions aside, the montages got it right: Netflix's streaming model allowed for these shows to gain incredible traction with audiences at precisely the right moment.
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He has said previously that his advocacy on biofuels regulation is not self-serving because it would benefit a broad swath of the U.S. refining industry, including some of CVR's competitors.
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"This leaves only plaintiff's own self-serving testimony that he drafted the contract, that he and Dash signed it, and that he lost track of it in 1998," the judge wrote.
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This self-serving hypothesis conflicts with the established fact that presidents typically enter office and promptly try to make good on their party's campaign promises, election-generated scandals and gaffes notwithstanding.
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"You're a lying, self-serving liberal phony who is totally unqualified to serve the American people ... It's our patriotic duty to tear her down until there is nothing left," one reads.
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To be sure, self-serving critics will claim that there is no connection between the general depiction of Native Americans in popular culture and a specific fight over an oil pipeline.
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His claim that he doesn't mind endlessly apologizing to the public, but that he wants the media to focus solely on his chosen issues, is simultaneously understandable and grotesquely self-serving.
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Yet, some outspoken Twitter users are criticizing the actress for supposedly turning a memorial of Rickman into a self-serving crusade to bring attention to Watson's status as a feminist leader.
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A self-serving creature, he wants all the marvelous powers of the island's inhabitants for his own — to the point where he actually creates a machine to attempt to steal them.
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While these revelations are supremely disappointing, it is his current vainglorious effort to "set the record straight" amid the hugely consequential Russia probe that seems so reckless, foolhardy and self-serving.
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The first two he dealt with quickly, by launching a (some say self-serving) anti-corruption campaign and centralizing power to make himself the most powerful Chinese leader since Mao Zedong.
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But pretty quickly, he reveals himself to be as self-serving and self-centered as Selina, turning Dan — who once was a pretty strong strategy guy — into his coffee-fetching lackey.
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IT'S – I JUST – IT'S SELF-SERVING BY SOME VERY, VERY WEALTHY CORPORATE LEADERS, NOT BIG BUSINESS, USUALLY, SORT OF HARD RIGHT PEOPLE LIKE THE KOCHS, AND INDIVIDUALS AND IT DOESN'T WORK.
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On Facebook, one of Henson's daughters, Cheryl Henson, reportedly wrote that "Steve's version of history is ridiculously self serving": My father never asked him to perform Kermit, my brother Brian did.
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Or do people see [posting videos] as a pointless endeavor, kind of hollow, self-serving—No, I don't know about that, I think people… it's just sort of an unquestioning thing.
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"Although we can consciously affirm the lives of most other gender diverse and sexually diverse persons, bisexuality too often is seen as indecision or self-serving rather than orientation," he adds.
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The group's founders argued that a Jewish cabal had improper access to wealth, and that it was in the interest of this self-serving coterie to weaken national and racial borders.
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Like Hill, she had a purity to her manner and story that was luminous, an impressive contrast to all the dark obfuscations, self-serving political maneuvering and petty deceptions around her.
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His version of events, and the process by which he comes to believe in Knox's guilt, comes across in this narrative as chiefly self-serving, dreadfully sexist, and often wildly delusional.
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In America, anti-vaxxers may have the "right" to their self-serving, delusional beliefs, but not when it affects the health or safety of other people, including their children or yours.
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This is not to say that they make decisions solely designed to advance their own commercial interests, although any cartel inevitably supplies a strong incentive to engage in self-serving behavior.
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Icahn previously dismissed accusations that his proposal to the White House to change the biofuels program was self-serving, saying the overhaul would help other refining companies too, including his competitors.
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Pakistan disputed India's claim that it targeted a terrorist camp and denied that numerous militants had been killed, calling it "a self serving, reckless and fictitious claim" by the Indian government.
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They had a chance to offer last statements, and I was disgusted because they were so self-serving, narcissistic statements for these people who had caused so much pain and suffering.
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His answer was revealing in how self-serving it was—the image of someone owning up to their mistakes is as positive a spin as he can put on this scandal.
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Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa said the party would do some soul searching, acknowledging that some critics had called the ANC "arrogant, self-centred, self-serving", but saying those descriptions were unfair.
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For some time now, glass producers have promoted the self-serving idea that every sort of wine requires a distinctive glass to intensify the aromas and flavors of the particular variety.
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It's a ploy that is in equal parts a self-serving voter recruitment push, an eye-catching pilot for his signature universal basic income proposal, and a campaign finance law minefield.
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And that means there has been very little to keep interest groups, large and small, from slowly rigging our economy with self-serving regulations under the guise of the public interest.
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"President Trump is not a disrupter, but is self-serving and often dishonest, " Clay M. Christensen, a father of disruption theory and the author of "The Innovator's Dilemma," said in an email.
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They've outscored opponents by 9.7 points per 100 possessions when Jordan, Gallo, and Griffin share the floor, and Teodosic's intoxicating pass-first mentality may singlehandedly reverse the team's self-serving modus operandi.
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The (RED) campaign is an example of "cause-related marketing," a style of philanthropy that some critics say is self-serving because they promote corporate brands as much as the underlying cause.
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She'd had none of the self-serving ambition that drives most of us, and her willingness to give up everything for the people around her won her our love and utter loyalty.
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All of it was self-imposed and, quite literally, self-serving: The only guiding principle was my own well-being, and the only reason to be well was to do better work.
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Mr Kaczynski believes that the 1989 revolution which ushered in democracy was betrayed by self-serving elites, including communist-era judges, and is acting to reinvent the state from top to bottom.
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Unfortunately my good feelings toward those songs have all but disappeared as they were experienced alongside someone so toxic and self serving that it occupied the space where any happiness could exist.
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A leading banking lobby immediately attacked the proposals as "self-serving", and it remained far from clear that the plans would gain traction in Washington, despite the political connections of its proponents.
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Icahn has previously dismissed accusations that his proposal to the White House to change the biofuels program was self-serving, saying the overhaul would help other refining companies too, including his competitors.
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Every human society is ultimately the sum total of individual souls seeking some form of "redemption," and these souls can never be mended by the self-serving institutions of government or politics.
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"He responded as a weak man, at the bottom of a self-destructive spiral, and with an addict's self-serving delusion that the communications were all just Internet fantasy," the defense wrote.
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If Trump and Musk really wanted to convince anyone of their remorse, then maybe they should ditch the torrent of self-serving statements and tweets, and just shut up for 10 seconds.
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His petulant refusal to answer questions directly, however self-serving, exposes the trial itself — its determination, in a world drenched in violent imagery, to distinguish the real from the unreal — as absurd.
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Most Americans Want to See a Shake-Up in D.C. Trump has said he wants to free Washington, D.C. from the influence of lobbyists and career politicians who pass self-serving laws.
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"Anthony Levandowski's supposed excuse for downloading more than 14,000 confidential Waymo files was self-serving and more than just suspicious — it was entirely made-up," a Waymo spokesperson said in a statement.
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Perhaps the most shamelessly self-serving and tone-deaf moment for Starr comes in a segment that began with Schad asking about Pepper Hamilton's finding that the school engaged in victim-blaming.
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They think Newsome's actions were self-serving, giving him a bigger personal platform, while undermining the goals of the Black Lives Matter movement by helping legitimize the Trump supporters who oppose it.
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Now they include voters simply wanting a change from the stultifying self-serving politicians of Pakistan's two dynastic powerhouses who are widely blamed for having driven the country into an economic hole.
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America may be self-serving politicians and lobbyists, but it's also an art lover who will pull out one of her own pubic hairs on camera for an artist she believes in.
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The progressive movement must be able to correct its best soldiers and urge them on to better behavior without joining the right's self-serving and utterly hypocritical call for their political execution.
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Flyspecking, tut-tutting critics in the news media, they say, fail to grasp the connection he has with a section of the country that feels profoundly misled by a self-serving establishment.
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With laserlike accuracy, he would cut through the obfuscating jargon and self-serving rhetoric of very many fellow jurors — academic and practicing architects alike — to connect student work with broad cultural ideas.
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When leaders hold on to power at the cost of the rights and freedoms of others, their legitimacy is most likely to be self-serving and less likely to be freely given.
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With so many blacks in South Africa mired in poverty, the topic is urgent, but discussion about it has been debased by its association with a notorious and self-serving P.R. campaign.
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Understandably skeptical of Karadzic's self-serving answers to probing questions, but determined to make a fair attempt to understand him, Stern goes in search of his family members, friends and former colleagues.
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That doesn't invalidate a BET miniseries that offers lots of music and doses of nostalgia, but it feels more like an old (and at times self-serving) edition, not a new one.
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The administration's ongoing negotiations with China are most emblematic of the president's bargaining style with both Beijing and Washington, angling for self-serving deals that don't appear too lopsided in either direction.
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Karoui's legal troubles have reinforced the perception among his critics that he is a self-serving opportunist, and among his supporters that he is the victim of political machinations by influential rivals.
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"President Trump is not a disrupter, but is self-serving and often dishonest," Clay M. Christensen, a father of disruption theory and the author of "The Innovator's Dilemma," said in an email.
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The company, however, is challenging the bureau's use of "open source" data, stating that they used "often anonymous, and uncorroborated media stories and other self-serving public statements" to reach its decision.
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Too many stories slip through editors' hands containing unattributed information so trivial that it need not be published, or so self-serving that its source should not have been handed a mic.
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The company, however, is challenging the bureau's use of "open source" data, stating that they used "often anonymous, and uncorroborated media stories and other self-serving public statements" to reach its decision.
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Sure, Cher didn't always get things right (her makeover of Tai was a bit self-serving at first) but she did, like, actually care about becoming the best version of herself and stuff.
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And in so doing, Cruz's self-serving act will forever separate himself from his own party and leave him with no real support for any national or possibly even statewide election ever again.
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Given that dividends play a key role in long-term returns, and that they are also a key tool to keep potentially self-serving insiders in line, this is a metric worth tracking.
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It's understandable that President Obama didn't want to take that chance even as it's excruciatingly annoying that he has continued to make sanctimonious and self-serving statements about the Syrian tragedy all year.
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When pressed by Justice Elena Kagan to state "what exactly your rule is", Mr Hilliard gave a rather self-serving answer that elicited a laughter-inspiring zinger from John Roberts, the chief justice.
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I resent the implication that I am somehow morally inferior to those who want to remain in the EU, a bankrupt organisation run by unelected officials in partnership with arrogant self-serving politicians.
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"President Donald Trump stood in front of the microphone in the White House Diplomatic Reception Room and strafed the world with a barrage of lies and nonsensical, self-serving claims," wrote Frida Ghitis.
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Since the shooting of 17 people at a school in Parkland, Florida, in February, many Americans have experienced a similar lifting of the veil on the gun lobby and its self-serving arguments.
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This self-serving attitude was cemented by a whole genre of campaign literature, initiated by Theodore White's The Making of the President series and carried forward in campaign documentaries like The War Room.
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He might have won Because now the town that was destroyed by the Trump-like, self-serving businessman seems to have forgotten why they struggle today to find work and make ends meet.
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There's anger in our land; anger at self-serving politicians; anger at a government that seems disassociated from the public good; anger at leaders who are dishonest and corrupt, who favor special interests.
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With a creative or credulous enough Google search, a self-serving "truth" can always be found, along with a passel of supposed experts to vouch for it and a clique of fellow disciples.
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"Grâce à Dieu" successfully argues that the sort of forgiveness procedures advocated by the church can be a way of trivialising a scourge, and of minimising the damage to a self-serving institution.
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The self-serving, fallacious insistence that there are not enough female directors, and the persistent attention placed on training newcomers, is an obfuscation from those in charge who don't want things to change.
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Lack of engagement and education too often feed the frustration that we see in politics today: voters dissatisfied with phony political agendas have lost faith in officeholders' ability to resist being self-serving.
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He quite often refers to the establishment as "stupid people", while those attending the rally are the "smart people" who realize the self-serving power has been taken away from the ordinary people.
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Because self-serving leaks, people from behind the curtain are saying things like The Washington Post probably gave him 100 pages of briefings to be tough on Putin but he largely ignored it.
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It meant little to Brad Parscale, the Trump campaign manager, who took the stage and mentioned that he had been invited: "Nothing better than just self-serving love," he said of the dinner.
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In Mexico, in contrast, institutions of checks and balances have atrophied as a result of exploding crime and self-serving politicians, including presidents, who have politicized institutions to protect themselves from corruption investigations.
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" That did not sit well with Melania Trump, his third wife and the actual first lady, who issued a retort through a spokeswoman dismissing what she called "attention-seeking and self-serving noise.
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"It would look like the president, in a self-serving and self-protective move, was trying a relatively unprecedented judicial proceeding to keep information about his own conduct from becoming public," he said.
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One described Mr. Barr's timing as self-serving, saying that the president had attacked the department before but Mr. Barr spoke up only when he felt his own credibility was on the line.
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At that meeting, I told Mr. Giuliani that in my view, the prosecutor general with whom he had been speaking, Mr. Lutsenko, was not credible and was acting in a self-serving capacity.
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And every character in "A Doll's House, Part 2" is very much a living individual — a solipsist, as we all are, with his or her own firm and self-serving view of things.
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Experts call it a legacy of the Soviet system, in which institutions like the courts were weak, oligarchs could carve out power and self-serving officials could use their authority for personal gain.
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It seemed like a self-serving proposal by a former governor who, while in that job, was chairman of the Democratic Governors Association, an organization with the sole job of defeating Republican governors.
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The expanded Democratic supermajority on the N.C. Supreme Court reveals the Democratic Party's talking points about "balance" in government for what they really are: self-serving and hypocritical rhetoric masking their power grab.
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But I don't think my concerns are self-serving: They do not stem from a belief in the superiority of economists, from some sense that we understand the economy better than anyone else.
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But Christie and Trump proved to be butchers of a more indiscriminate and self-serving sort, and both demonstrated that there's a short leap from headstrong to hardheaded and from defiant to delusional.
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In refusing to follow the self-serving path that powerful men have taken in history — and in society today — Pixy's rebellion against the heterosexual norm becomes more than a reversal of gender roles.
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His grasp of policy and his ability to make profoundly important issues accessible to a broader audience stand in stark contrast to the self-serving elitism that characterizes far too much of the media.
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What followed – to this day – has been an unending comedy of errors, recriminations and hypocrisy as policy coordination and rules of a sustainable free trade were shunned in pursuit of self-serving national interests.
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Former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe was fired in March by Attorney General Jeff Sessions over his lack of candor when interviewed regarding an unauthorized leak of a self-serving story to the media.
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As for Boris Johnson, the man most likely to try to unseat the prime minister before the next election, he is regarded by his friends and enemies alike as shallow, showboating and self-serving.
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There are some ugly, self-serving messages in the movie, which is incongruously bent on creating sympathy for Batman's worst enemy and one of DC Comics' most notoriously callous mass murderers and atrocity architects.
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And risking prison by returning to Pakistan would bolster his claim to be a selfless defender of democracy from military meddling, rather than a self-serving politician caught with his beak in the till.
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And Facebook is clearly attempting to promote a self-serving interpretation of GDPR that seeks to concentrate jurisdictional elements around a lead data protection authority — under the regulation's so-called 'one-stop shop' principle.
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Meanwhile, little would stop the nakedly self-serving legislators from rewriting the constitution to suit themselves—for instance, by bringing back a pork-barrel fund that the Supreme Court ordered scrapped five years ago.
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Trump's failure to realize that demeaning fatness is an insult to himself may be part of his much larger issue of personal denial and an inability to differentiate between truth and self-serving falsifications.
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Financial Guaranty Insurance Co, a bond insurer, urged a 90-day hold on litigation last week, but the board said in court papers filed on Tuesday such a move was self-serving at best.
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We've read scores of self-serving Facebook apologias over the years and can confirm Facebook's founder has made a very tedious art of selling abject failure as some kind of heroic lack of perfection.
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White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders, asked if she was surprised by Manigault Newman's animus toward the president, told reporters she was disappointed by what she called the former aide's self-serving and false claims.
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" Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids President Matthew Myers slammed the apology, calling it "a deceptive, self-serving gesture by Juul given their complete refusal to take responsibility for creating the youth e-cigarette epidemic.
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McCabe wasn't fired until March of this year, following a separate inspector general finding that he leaked a self-serving story to the press and later lied about it to Comey and federal investigators.
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The self-serving principles set out by ITI can be seen as pre-emptive attack to delay the inevitable, and to protect its clients from what it sees as meddlesome and potentially costly intrusions.
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And self-serving it is; it can hardly be said, for example—and as stated in the new list of principles—that the ITI clientele could use some additional financial support from the government.
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"When politics is no longer a mission but a profession, politicians become more self-serving than public servants," Macron told a rally of more than a 1,000 people in the eastern city of Strasbourg.
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The medical sociologist Gayle Sulik in Pink Ribbon Blues documents the potential downsides of awareness campaigns, including co-optation by self-serving organizations and the potential to sexualize and infantilize women in the process.
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The Commission, which has been trying to douse accusations that the EU is run by a self-serving elite, said in a statement its ethics panel found Kroes, 75, broke rules on two counts.
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If there is any discomfiture with the TCPA — and there should be — it is because class action lawyers have turned a law meant to serve consumers into a law that is simply self-serving.
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After the tsunami, construction companies there floated the predictable and self-serving idea of erecting an immense protective sea wall, which would have made a kind of fortress, or prison, of the ravaged riverfront.
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Is this one of the greatest examples of arrogance and self-serving blind ambition by a political candidate in history, or just the result of a culture that gives out trophies for last place?
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"There is clearly no substance to this statement from an ex, this is unfortunately only attention-seeking and self-serving noise," Melania said in a shockingly sharply worded statement from her spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham.
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One of the things that he talked about was the way Charlie got control over everybody by getting people to agree that he was something spectacular, and agree to his other self-serving ideas.
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Panera is testing self-serving kiosks to increase efficiency, and pizza robot company Zume has generated $48 million in funding, with plans to service Bay Area delivery cravings by the end of this year.
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It's been almost 20 years since the premiere of "Sex and the City," the show that fixed her star in Manhattan's sky and made her character, Carrie Bradshaw, the avatar of self-serving womanhood.
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To the Editor: This brazen attack on the freedom of the press by Donald Trump, whose intended use of the press (and all others) is purely manipulative and self-serving, deserves a powerful response.
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He's used his status in mainly self-serving ways like promoting the viewership of his Flavor of Love-like reality show Teacha's Pet and the sales of his now-discontinued alcohol, Street Vybz Rum.
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The original ten are a self-serving jumble of the Almighty's insecurities ("Thou shall have no other gods before me") and oddly specific rules about who you can and can't bear false witness against.
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The opposition also rejected the self-serving electoral system that Maduro devised for electing the assembly, which gives extra weight to areas of the country that favor him and doesn't reflect the popular vote.
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It can have sympathy for Drew getting caught in a web he never saw coming even as it reveals the self-serving lengths he will go to in order to save his own skin.
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This goes for both the positive and the negative attention, each of which can feel more like a self-serving projection than an accurate representation of who Ocasio-Cortez is or what she's doing.
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Many questions that have been raised regarding human rights violations are valid, but some, including Watters' comments that intend to paint China as an underdeveloped, backwards country, are more self-serving than anything else.
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Some of the Apple Card's major criticisms were its benefits are mediocre compared to cards that are already out there, and that reserving 3 percent cash back to Apple products only was self-serving.
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Malignant forms — for example, the effect of self-serving political policies — may be imperceptible in the short run, or even during a lifetime, yet still be massively destructive over a longer span of time.
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American corporations have a strong, self-serving motive for urging the United States not to withdraw, said Tamar Lawrence-Samuel, policy director at Corporate Accountability International, which campaigns against corporate influence in public policy.
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Citizens fed up with their factional, self-serving politicians appear to have little appetite for another: "#weareagainstathirdrevolution" read a hashtag in Russian, which is widely spoken in Kyrgyzstan, that went viral during the showdown.
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"There's a danger that it's either a self-serving track for low-skilled jobs right out of high school, or that it teaches skills that will be obsolete once they complete college," he said.
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As a society, we've constructed rigidly defined narratives about what "good" and "bad" relationships look like; which relationships are considered transgressive, or self-serving, or mutually beneficial; and which are considered wholesome and pure.
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This is so because Strzok enjoyed the advantage of being able to shower the committees with self-serving protestations while hiding behind the restrictions on his testimony imposed by the FBI attorney hovering behind him.
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Amazon has become increasingly dominant in several increasingly important arenas: cloud services, voice assistants, self-serving brick-and-mortar stores with Amazon Go, and of course its now-traditional role as the online everything store.
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Mainstream art-forms have a unique opportunity to contribute to the public discourse around social issues, and Clooney doesn't hesitate to share his point of view on racism, hypocrisy, or self-serving justifications for both.
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At the heart at all of them, we have self-serving politicians looking out for their own interests, greedy corporate interests looking out for their own bottom line and we the people get left behind.
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Yet Facebook does already share plenty of data between WhatsApp and its other companies for all sorts of self-serving, business-enhancing purposes — and even including, as it couches it, "to ensure safety and security".
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But these sins either did not strike him as transgressive, or he is so reptilian-brained that he doesn't log the rapacious things he's done, the self-serving decisions he's made, in his own mind.
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ANC Secretary-General Gwede Mantashe told reporters on Sunday the party's leadership was trying to "deal with perceptions of the ANC being arrogant, self serving, soft on corruption and increasingly distant from its social base".
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More recently it's been putting money into telecom infrastructure a bit less loudly — presumably hoping a less immediately self-serving approach to investing in infrastructure in target growth markets will avoid another highly politicized controversy.
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Volker testified that he did just that, delivering a warning to Giuliani that he shouldn't trust a former Ukrainian prosecutor, Yuriy Lutsenko, whom the State Department had long considered to be corrupt and self-serving.
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"Our results speak against a fatalistic view about the nature [of] altruism—namely, that it does not exist and people only do good things for self-serving motives and not to actually help," he said.
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Intentionally and sometimes inadvertently revealing, books by Richard Nixon, Hubert H. Humphrey, George McGovern, Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter are by turns self-serving and honest, defensive and brave — rather like the authors themselves.
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Critics see a similar self-serving agenda with "Be Internet Awesome," which presents malicious third parties as the primary online threat to children, while failing to teach them how to navigate corporate data-mining practices.
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Does the average American understand that the visas that we grant to highly skilled people — and by the way, that's self-serving, we're doing that so we can get the talent to help our companies.
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Don't think of Rodriguez as a friendly Franco or Moyer, or even a self-serving Pete Rose, writing his own name into the lineup as Reds player-manager long after any other manager would have.
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He hails their subsequent Bitcoin proselytizing as crucial to the mainstreaming of a once-obscure currency, without acknowledging that their pitch might be self-serving, intended to drive up the price of their prized asset.
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While most international legal scholars find the party's argument on the courts to be self-serving and argue that the changes are mainly about political control, the economic policies are harder for critics to dismiss.
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"New York's double jeopardy law should be amended to make sure that ANY crime pardoned in a self-serving pardon can be prosecuted at the state level," Teachout wrote in an August post on Twitter.
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It isn't just self-serving rhetoric: It's about rhetoric that lulls voters into feeling that they're doing something to better the nation when in fact nothing is being done to address the real social problem.
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Professor Arrow's theorems set out the precise conditions under which Adam Smith's famous conjecture in "The Wealth of Nations" holds true: that the "invisible hand" of market competition among self-serving individuals serves society well.
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Given what happened to my sister, and how no one was held accountable for it, I find this invention self-serving and sinister, and I take it as a cruel insult to my sister's memory.
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If you look at the record there, where the prosecutor was leaking out his expert reports in advance, it was totally self-serving, and he knew there was going to be a declination in that case.
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Self-serving policy China's policy of non-interference dates back to the Sino-Soviet split of 1956, which redefined the Cold War as a tripolar dispute and set the stage for rapprochement between Beijing and Washington.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British department store Debenhams on Wednesday rejected what it said were "unfounded and self-serving complaints" from shareholder Sports Direct about its communications to the market before it warned on profit earlier this month.
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The 'relevant ads' badge is of course a self-serving concept which Facebook uses to justify creeping on users while also pushing the notion that its people-tracking business inherently generates major extra value for advertisers.
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In 2002, Howard accused her cousin — who has taken over her mother's position as Dear Abby — of being "self-serving and loopy" for penning an emotional goodbye letter to Lederer after she died from terminal cancer.
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Sam, who authentically believes the other camp counselors should stand down, stop trying to kill him, and forgive his past murders, comes across as a bit of a self-serving weasel, but he's a victim, too.
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Just as in the Eisenhower era, he would give a free pass to the business leaders who employ undocumented workers (a wise move, in a purely self-serving sense, since Trump himself falls into that camp).
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DOJ's statement does not reasonably explain the government's views of the laws and the facts, but instead simply presents its own self-serving and imagined set of facts to further an ideological crusade against class actions.
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The IG report does not surprise anyone in finding that Comey violated numerous rules and procedures in playing the role of investigator, prosecutor and judge in publicly exonerating Clinton with a flimsy and self-serving justification.
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Attempts by general obligation holders "to challenge the Puerto Rico statutes that created liens for COFINA bondholders are self-serving and built on deceptive half-truths," COFINA's senior bondholder group said in a statement on Tuesday.
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"This is an embarrassing attempt to create legal cover, and a self-serving effort to avoid accountability and place himself above Philippine and international law," said Sam Zarifi, Secretary General of the International Commission of Jurists.
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But when it's blatantly self-serving and beyond the normal competition that the press so enjoys focusing on, instead of, wouldn't it better if all the press were focusing on the Senate heartless, mean-spirited bill?
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"His grasp of policy and his ability to make profoundly important issues accessible to a broader audience stand in stark contrast to the self-serving elitism that characterizes far too much of the media," Murdoch said.
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Passing this bill at the federal level will make it easier for tens of millions of Americans to participate in our democracy, and make it harder for self-serving politicians to restrict the right to vote.
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