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Meanings of opportunism in anglès
Taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others.
Conscious policy and practice of taking selfish advantage of circumstances.
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Examples for "expedience"
Examples for "expedience"
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Wherever you look in the squad there's evidence of expedience and compromise.
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I am sure you will be guided by expedience in this matter.
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Likewise, to yield to the demand is an act of deep expedience.
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The mother, taking a broader view of expedience and duty, forbade them.
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What but the expedience of a law that will never be executed?
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Working in mutual self-interest the world community would have achieved Sustainable Growth.
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Against our nature, self-interest has been given too high a moral priority.
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The WTO talks, it said, have been driven by power and self-interest.
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Global alliances can't be constructed on the basis of narrow national self-interest.
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Why are our MPs putting blatant self-interest ahead of the Brexit vote?
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We have become a self-seeking society that is never satisfied, he says.
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I have listened to such a story this morning of brutal self-seeking!
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In all your actions, you should avoid the least trace of self-seeking.
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In all this there is nothing of a self-seeking or covetous kind.
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But Philip was only less weary than Edward of the self-seeking pontiff.
Usage of opportunism in anglès
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It remained the capital of the moderate, traditional attitude and religious opportunism.
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In three weeks Cameron will suffer the consequences of his opposition opportunism.
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Critics accused him of acting out of political opportunism rather than principle.
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Life, being in itself indifferent, the whole question was one of opportunism.
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What began in January with understandable grievances has become transparently cynical opportunism.
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Nothing has lost so many opportunities as the opportunism of Lord Rosebery.
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Its opportunism was instrumental-itsidealism was home and family and individual betterment.
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A mix of bank resolutions and private-sector opportunism is a better cure.
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The old roar of opportunism led us nowhere, except to barren failure.
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Scale and opportunism Not for Yunus the interesting little boutique social experiment.
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The former-covertheir disgust under a smile of opportunism; kin and kind-don't
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But Mr Kelleher's opportunism, naked hypocrisy and dishonesty is hard to stomach.
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Rather, it speaks of political opportunism, Whitbeck said in a statement.
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I actually think that's a great way of putting it, opportunism.
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It is opportunism driven by a lack of competition, he said.
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No principle, no policy, no politics even, just opportunism and careerism.
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Translations for opportunism
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Opportunism through the time
Opportunism across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Less common
United Kingdom
Less common