Taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others.
Interested only in yourself.
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Examples for "opportunism "
Examples for "opportunism "
1 It remained the capital of the moderate, traditional attitude and religious opportunism .
2 In three weeks Cameron will suffer the consequences of his opposition opportunism .
3 Critics accused him of acting out of political opportunism rather than principle.
4 Life, being in itself indifferent, the whole question was one of opportunism .
5 What began in January with understandable grievances has become transparently cynical opportunism .
1 Wherever you look in the squad there's evidence of expedience and compromise.
2 I am sure you will be guided by expedience in this matter.
3 Likewise, to yield to the demand is an act of deep expedience .
4 The mother, taking a broader view of expedience and duty, forbade them.
5 What but the expedience of a law that will never be executed?
1 Working in mutual self - interest the world community would have achieved Sustainable Growth.
2 Against our nature, self - interest has been given too high a moral priority.
3 The WTO talks, it said, have been driven by power and self - interest .
4 Global alliances can't be constructed on the basis of narrow national self - interest .
5 Why are our MPs putting blatant self - interest ahead of the Brexit vote?
1 We have become a self - seeking society that is never satisfied, he says.
2 I have listened to such a story this morning of brutal self - seeking !
3 In all your actions, you should avoid the least trace of self - seeking .
4 In all this there is nothing of a self - seeking or covetous kind.
5 But Philip was only less weary than Edward of the self - seeking pontiff.
6 But I do not blame you, we are all selfish and self - seeking .
7 But he was self - seeking , foolishly vain, and madly ambitious of military glory.
8 You looked for wile, for cunning, for self-seeking,-andthey were not there.
9 For that proud, greedy, selfish, self - seeking spirit would turn heaven into hell.
10 There must be no brutality anywhere, no self - seeking , no ambition, no instability.
11 There is nothing morally wrong in the self - seeking of the animal.
12 And if anybody in the world is free from self - seeking it is you.
13 There was self - seeking in my heart, and I think shame of it now.
14 In this journey I committed many faults of self-love and self - seeking .
15 The self - seeking motives of many Protestant princes had disgusted the nobles.
16 Evil consists in the elevation of selfhood, which springs from desire, into self - seeking .
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