self-advancement

Bradford: I suspect (but am not proposing) that the motive would be alleged as self-advancement or self-promotion.

A Trend? 2009

… I already know that Bradford will reject your input specifically because anyone expert enough to understand these concepts is automatically suspected of defending them only because they have motives as vague and silly as needing "self-advancement or self-promotion".

A Trend? 2009

Their contempt for "ideology" is really frustration with anyone whose inconvenient values impede their ability to cut deals that promote their own self-advancement.

Richard (RJ) Eskow: Weiner vs. Bayh: Which One's A Bigger Scandal? RJ 2011

Their contempt for "ideology" is really frustration with anyone whose inconvenient values impede their ability to cut deals that promote their own self-advancement.

Richard (RJ) Eskow: Weiner vs. Bayh: Which One's A Bigger Scandal? RJ 2011

Their contempt for "ideology" is really frustration with anyone whose inconvenient values impede their ability to cut deals that promote their own self-advancement.

Richard (RJ) Eskow: Weiner vs. Bayh: Which One's A Bigger Scandal? RJ 2011

I sense a deep passion in both of them, but I fear that passion may be for their own self-advancement, and wonder if cooking just happens to be their vehicle of choice -- and one that unfortunately might run them both off the road.

MasterChef's Joe: Never Serve Raw Flour and No Egos on a Plate, Please! 2011

Adroit social-climbing and boudoir-hopping were central to elegant self-advancement.

Why They All Came to Versailles Frederic Raphael 2011

For instance, how do you legitimate ethical decisions like distributing wealth or hoarding it, or on what basis do you promote self-advancement or discourage it?

David Lose: Atheists And The F-Word David Lose 2012

The son of a chauffeur to the former chairman of Coca-Cola Co., Mr. Cain pursued his own self-advancement with steady focus.

Herman Cain's Political Education Douglas A. Blackmon 2011

Their contempt for "ideology" is really frustration with anyone whose inconvenient values impede their ability to cut deals that promote their own self-advancement.

Richard (RJ) Eskow: Weiner vs. Bayh: Which One's A Bigger Scandal? RJ 2011