Self serving as it may seem, this viewpoint is not without some merit.

Leadership training in Google, for example, places a lot of emphasis on the inner qualities, such as self awareness, self mastery, empathy and compassion, because we believe that leadership begins with character.

States continued to hold conflicting perspectives regarding terrorist acts, and self serving political interests seriously impeded the formulation of a universal guarantee against terrorism, while also serving to validate the deeds of the culprits.

This awareness of serving the greater good is very self inspiring and it creates fertile ground for compassion to grow in.

But the notion that the genii of democratization can now be squeezed back into the bottle is a self serving fantasy.

Neural correlates of the self serving bias have been investigated by electroencephalography (EEG), as well as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

To now artificially raise the bar as some have sought to do, including very recently is quite clearly arbitrary and self serving.

And we thought this was a very interesting comment on America, and a kind of self serving, not my responsibility kind of phenomenon.

The West s lofty and self serving rhetoric has not helped to end Syria s conflict it may even have made the situation more dangerous.

Polls consistently demonstrate that the Russian people are not deluded they routinely respond in surveys that government officials are corrupt and self serving.

Historians, Democrats, and other Bush critics were quick to denounce his speech, particularly his reference to Vietnam, as self serving, dishonest, and inaccurate.

Ballot initiatives were created 100 years ago to empower ordinary citizens, but in recent decades the process has been captured by self serving elites.

In their desire for self determination and peace, the Palestinian people had suffered the tragedy of a leadership which, instead of working towards peace, had placed obstacles in the path to self determination.

In the absence of an authoritative basis for a determination of an illegality, the unilateral assertion of illegality would be self serving and inimical to stability of relations.

Tuvalu's interest is not self serving. The more serious consequences of not acting now on climate change, as we are already witnessing the world over, will be felt everywhere.

As Xi rose through the Communist Party ranks, he forged close military ties as a reservist, assuming leadership of a provincial garrison and serving as a key aide to a defense minister.

In those circumstances, it is important that President Abbas exercise strong leadership to ensure self restraint on the part of the Palestinian groups concerned.

The United Nations was set up primarily to stop all acts that could violate the sanctity and dignity of human life including the self serving application of science and technology.

Undertaken by politicians, an audit might be viewed as an opportunity to score political points or steer policy in self serving directions, with delicate information leaked in order to pressure policymakers.

Because they could see I was no longer serving them, I was only serving myself.

We are certain that the primary effort to ensure the implementation of standards must be taken by the Albanian leadership of the Provisional Institutions of Self Government.

Self serving as it may seem, this viewpoint is not without some merit. As economies become intertwined, decisions taken in one part of the world reverberate in other parts, often producing unintended consequences.

Even so, the violence, driven by impoverished northern youth, first targeted the region s own idle and self serving rich before degenerating into tit for tat attacks between northern Muslims and their Christian counterparts.

Servant leadership is both a leadership philosophy and set of leadership practices.

The Party leadership has grown more self assured in its growing international role, but its ability to manage the pace of change at home has become more uncertain.

NEW YORK Israel s current government and its supporters in the West are quick to denounce criticism of Israeli policies as anti Semitism. This can be inaccurate and self serving, but it is not always wrong.

Most Nigerians expect the general election in 2015 to bring in a new set of self serving politicians with little interest in improving the situation. If they are right, Boko Haram will continue to thrive.

As China has moved toward a market economy, it has developed some of the problems that have plagued the developed countries special interests that clothe self serving arguments behind a thin veil of market ideology.

Sami was serving a life sentence.

Serving them will be immortalized youth .

Serving them will be immortalized youth .

The seminar had a notable educational impact on both the leadership and civil society in Anguilla and triggered a useful discussion related to the political, economic and social aspects of Anguilla's status as a Non Self Governing Territory and its options in achieving self determination.

But, while the assault on the Qing Dynasty by foreign powers is a historical fact, the notion that there has been one enduring China struggling against avaricious outsiders across several millennia is false and self serving.

The petition s chief promoter was Petr Shkumatov, who coordinates the so called Blue Bucket Society, a protest group formed in opposition to public servants arbitrary, self serving use of emergency rotating blue flashers on the highways.

The goal is to work towards empowerment and leadership building, as well as advance knowledge regarding inequality issues between the genders, develop self awareness, and change positions on gender equality.

The Palestinian Authority, as a result of the Oslo accords of 1993 and the transfer of limited sovereignty to the Palestinian leadership, entered into a new phase of self governance.

I like that one Namibia serving as a model to Africa, and Africa serving as a model to the United States.

There are no Greek Cypriots currently serving sentences in the north, and 24 Turkish Cypriots are serving sentences in the south.

Sami is now serving a life sentence.

Sami is serving life for the murder.

neither are you serving what I serve

neither are you serving what I serve

(Some of these doubts are, of course, politically or financially self serving a certain model of financial capitalism perceives the euro as a threat, and its adherents will do everything they can to bring about its demise.)

Too often the participation of young people is viewed solely as self serving, without taking into account that it also has a wider social function and leads to stronger public policy and better governance at all levels.

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