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Перевод: self-preservation

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Тезаурус:

1. Even pride, the most self-centred of passions implies that one does see oneself from other viewpoints and care whether one is admired or despised, even to the point perhaps of valuing respect by others above self-preservation.
2. No matter how unpleasant it is to damage another human being, fighting is sometimes still a vital part of self-preservation.
3. Over fifty years later in 1975, another Conservative leader, Edward Heath, was to be overthrown, in part because, in March 1974, he had proposed a coalition with the Liberals and, in October 1974, he had proposed a government of national unity, Thus, among Conservatives, the motives for an election were clear: for those left out of the government, the desire to secure a Conservative majority for protection; for the leadership, a desire to reunite the party, and simple self-preservation.
4. Self-preservation, replies Kate the British Committee librarian feebly, I can't afford a breakdown, this is me for the moment, there's nothing I can do about it.
5. Politicians rarely change sides unless their instinct is purely one of self-preservation, human personalities remain predictably the same.
6. But this speech fairly shone with loyalty, way beyond the call of self-preservation.
7. Reynard Lennon was astute, analytical, an expert in self-preservation, and very, very polite.
8. Zambia's self-preservation instinct deep inside was screaming: Time to get out and fast!
9. In 1975 he wrote his open letter to President Husak about the price that would have to be paid for delivering their country into the hands of an "entropic" regime which depended "solely on the ruling minority's instinct of self-preservation and on the fear of the ruled majority", a regime which positively required the suppression of truth and history for its surival.
10. Self-defence is the art of self-preservation and that does not mean just fighting to protect yourself.
11. This lack of the courtier's innate instinct for self-preservation - a characteristic he shared with his father - did not endear him to the aristocracy, and probably lost him the appointments he needed.
12. Public relations is the most vital business of the royal household, the expression of an instinct for self-preservation which has grown steadily more sophisticated as the years have rolled by and the appetite of the media has grown more voracious.
13. Where timekeeping signifies authority, the overseer's watch and chain, the ability to organize time to one's own advantage is a subtle form of subversion as well as a device for self-preservation.