Given their importance there are self-interested reasons for finding out all we can about them.

Labor union leaders also had a self-interested reason to object to Costco's nonunion labor force.

But significantly, the accounts all appeared years after the fact and came from people, including Ruskin, with self-interested reasons for spreading the tale.

One of the most satisfying things about literature, though, is the way it can turn on those who use it for self-interested reasons.

Germany pushed the Euro for self-interested reasons not for idealism's sake.

It sounded tough-minded, and it offered Americans a simple and self-interested reason for their young people to risk death in remote places.

They also contended that independent firms had a self-interested reason for promoting themselves as less profit-hungry than those inside conglomerates: it is good public relations.

There is another, more self-interested reason for Virgin's opposition.

And just as community opposition gave him cover, he said, it gave the Council a less self-interested reason to vote down the proposal.

South Africa has a self-interested reason to worry about Mr. Mugabe's campaign of terror.