It's not consciously self serving, but to a biologist, that's the logic.

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

Declaration of Principles on Interim Self Government Arrangements

And we thought this was a very interesting comment on America, and a kind of self serving,

Arbitrary, self serving criteria and thresholds regarding proliferation proof and proliferation prone technologies would only undermine the Treaty.

But that day, it occurred to me what if that grammar is nothing more than a self serving conceit?

A mixture of just cherry picked quotes, facts and figures self serving, selective, a farrago of distortions, misrepresentations, misinterpretations, misquotations.

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).

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

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

This doesn't bother me so much, that the underlying Darwinian rationale of compassion is kind of self serving at the genetic level.

Such a declaration would also be an enormous act of self empowerment for the Palestinians.

We welcome the Declaration of Principles on Palestinian interim self rule in the occupied territories.

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.

With the recent signing of the declaration of principles for Palestinian self rule, the road ahead is encouraging.

It may not be that difficult to portray a nice, albeit self serving, picture but it would be very difficult indeed to make a consistent case.

It comes from serving.

How many Chinese troops are serving under the blue beret, serving under the blue flag, serving under the U.N. command in the world today?

Like the Charter, the Declaration recognizes and commits the United Nations to support for the right of self determination.

The implementation of the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self Government Arrangements is moving steadily forward, although behind schedule.

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

The Declaration neither limits nor extends the rights to self determination that peoples have under other parts of international law.

They expressed continued support for the Declaration and the need for its implementation in the remaining Non Self Governing Territories.

The Declaration seeks to deal with the issue of self determination in a way which banishes the spectre of coercion.

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.

I was only serving myself.

You mean in serving God?

Whose ambition is he serving?

Namibia serving as a model to Africa, and Africa serving as a model to the United States.

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.

But that's more a self declaration for what I want to be, even though people think that's a lot of vanity.

Sami was serving a life sentence.

Serving them will be immortalized youth .

Serving them will be immortalized youth .

Currently there are 25 serving judges.

I look forward to serving you.

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.