Word: selfishly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...will our policy do justice to European countries, but also will it teach South American states invaluable lessons, and support the great principles of arbitration; it will give to the United States a position unique among nations; it will show European nations that there is one nation above the selfish desires of the old world...
...awards of arbitrary boards can be interfered with and you deal a death blow to arbitration. The United States has insisted on the power to interpret arbitration of South American disputes. By what right does she now insist upon the power to interpret arbitration awards to suit here own selfish interests? The affirmative has taken its stand because we believe that in the lives of men and of nations, personal, selfish considerations must yield to the call of international honesty and fair dealing...
...contrary, in her pretended poverty, answers the Major with the same words he had previously used to her. Her sound common sense, however, prevents her from carrying her part any farther than is necessary to give her fiance of wholesome lesson and convince him of the essentially selfish character of his actions...
...critics and others that Shakespeare loved a rogue, but this is not true, since his moral attitude toward Falstaff was one of disapproval. He represents Falstaff as he was and gives him credit for his wonderfully brilliant wit and sense of humor, but he also shows him as unprincipled, selfish, egotistical and vulgar, and, in the end, the prince sees through Falstaff's frivolity and sham, recognizes his utter worthlessness and condemns him as unfit for the society of true...
Professor Macvane believes that the Boers are utterly in the wrong, that they have broken every agreement with the British, and that they have tried to hold the majority under the control of the minority in a selfish and oppressive way. They have shown themselves an ignorant and corrupt oligarchy and all the evidence goes to prove that they were about to attack England at the first opportunity. The fact that should have weight with Americans is the oppressive and cruel apprenticeship, so-called, under which the blacks are held, forming a condition practically equalling that in America before...