However, his party loyalty was tempered by a self-serving interest in power.

The tax reform work began to erode with the next year and has continued to be picked away by self-serving interests ever since, he said.

"We must have the courage to stand up to the apologists, to the entrenched self-serving special interests, to the self-promoters and doubters and the apathetic."

Due to conflict among them from their varying self-serving interests and backgrounds, they tend to work alone most of the time.

This style of power creates an environment where public officials appear to cater to self-serving interests rather than the community and its electorate.

The democratic process has been undermined, if not completely taken over, by unelected financial self-serving interests and we are all powerless to intervene.

We live in a competitive world of self-serving interests and pride of ownership.

This led one commentator to accuse the party of having a stance "based on self-serving interests but under glossy principles to boost its prestige".

That may be, he acknowledged, "a self-serving interest," but it is one on which he would not give an inch.

The new Republican administration, the news media and the stock markets have all grossly overstated the economy's demise for their own self-serving interests.