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 Translation for 'self-seeking' from English to Bulgarian
self-seeking {noun}корист {ж}
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Translation for 'self-seeking' from English to Bulgarian

self-seeking {noun}
корист {ж}
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Usage Examples English
  • Hobbes saw human beings as being violent, self-seeking, and power-hungry.
  • The story portrays the refugee intellectuals, and their self-seeking activities in a different light.
  • His reputation has undergone many revisions. In Britain, he was seen as a traitor. In Russia, particularly in the Soviet period, he was suspected as a self-seeking capitalist and an industrial spy.
  • Common cultures may prohibit or restrict individual's satisfaction, ultimately changing the rule of the economic game while on the other hand, competitive societies may abuse of the economic system and over-stimulate self-seeking.
  • Unlike the self-seeking favourites of Catherine the Great, Shuvalov determined to put his good fortune to constructive use for the advancement of education and the promotion of fine arts in his country.

  • Morozov was regarded as a corrupt, self-seeking boyar and was accused of sorcery and witchcraft.
  • Ch. 1 (15): The narrator explains the self-seeking political reasoning behind Ashton's wish for a reconciliation with Edgar.
  • "The result was "Brassneck", which offered an exhilaratingly panoramic satire on England from 1945 to the present, depicting the meteoric ups and downs of a self-seeking Midlands family...from singing the Red Flag in 1945 to acting as a conduit for the Oriental drug market in the decadent Seventies."
  • Under the main international definition of aid – Official Development Assistance – any self-seeking motives of aid donors are supposed to be strictly subordinate to the objective of promoting the economic development and welfare of developing countries.
  • The "Encyclopædia Britannica" Eleventh Edition recounts that to Juan de Mariana he appears as a mere self-seeking favourite.

  • Lester lends her the strength to resist but the invisible City, sustained by millennia of fellow-feeling, had also entered the battle now to thwart the foreign body of self-seeking in its midst.
  • Vahidi Azar has never hesitated to express his concerns to the authorities over the senseless, haphazard importing of the guitar and electric keyboard by self-seeking profiteers.
  • Elsewhere, anti-British sentiment was developed by 'Ali Beg and his Turco-Kurdish independence party, and the Kurdish Club, which Edward William Charles Noel claimed was plagued with corruption and self-seeking individuals who were also members of the Turkish CUP.
  • Clannish and self-seeking, these gem dragons usually want little to do with the other inhabitants of the isles.
  • "The Age" writer Percy Beames was particularly scathing of the Bombers' forward play, noting that "position play was completely ignored, and forward work resulted in a hopeless jumble of self-seeking glorification".

  • In the absence of their employers the Tennants, the servants enact their own battles and conflict amid rumours about the war in Europe; invading one another's provinces of authority to create an anarchic environment of self-seeking behaviour, pilfering, gossip and love.
  • In 1844 Watts had come to the conclusion that Owen's ideal community was impracticable, and many of its adherents self-seeking; and he went into business again.
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