"reason" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- If he had learned one single thing today it was that Gehn never-never-did anything without some self-serving reason.
- Senior law enforcement officials in Washington, however, say banks have become more cooperative of late - although some argue it is for self-serving reasons.
- As a biologist, he was always looking for some evolutionary, self-serving reason to explain why animals did certain things.
- Over which a rich man of the community has ruled with lordly hauteur, imparting gifts for self-serving reasons.
- They were demarcated and named by men for political, often self-serving reasons.
- Generally, the media tolerate or even welcome denunciation of their hostility to authority, for obvious self-serving reasons.
- "This is not trying to have control for some self-serving reason," said Mr. Case.
- He had his self-serving reasons to let us know his name in a letter.
- Some say there are self-serving reasons, too.
- I have also seen anonymous sources who leak information for self-serving reasons, to float a policy balloon or damage a rival.
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