Acting with less concern for yourself than for the success of the joint activity.
1Its actual meaning is 'a self-sacrifice for the common good.' She paused.
2But Miss Cornelia nipped the heroic attempt at self-sacrifice in the bud.
3Let the world know the heroism and the self-sacrifice of those men.
4Thus, the rising generation was reminded of the heroic deed of self-sacrifice.
5President Kennedy has frequently called on his countrymen for courage and self-sacrifice.
6Her office in life is to teach him the joy of self-sacrifice.
7We must act from cold reason even in the ardor of self-sacrifice.
8The Brigaders remain heroes of the left for their internationalism and self-sacrifice.
9He gave up the reins and, in his great self-sacrifice, passionately exclaimed:
10One orator after another rose and praised the self-sacrifice of the sailors.
11What seemed the levity of her desertion was the devotion of self-sacrifice.
12That's self-sacrifice, I suppose; but there must be some satisfaction in it.
13The latter had always been to her the symbol of complete self-sacrifice.
14Group-selection theories of individual self-sacrifice are always vulnerable to subversion from within.
15From the soil of tyranny sprang self-sacrifice, and daring for the Right.
16The struggle was soon over, and the impulse of self-sacrifice had conquered.
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