If he had learned one single thing today it was that Gehn never-never-did anything without some self-serving reason.

Senior law enforcement officials in Washington, however, say banks have become more cooperative of late - although some argue it is for self-serving reasons.

As a biologist, he was always looking for some evolutionary, self-serving reason to explain why animals did certain things.

Over which a rich man of the community has ruled with lordly hauteur, imparting gifts for self-serving reasons.

They were demarcated and named by men for political, often self-serving reasons.

Generally, the media tolerate or even welcome denunciation of their hostility to authority, for obvious self-serving reasons.

"This is not trying to have control for some self-serving reason," said Mr. Case.

He had his self-serving reasons to let us know his name in a letter.

Some say there are self-serving reasons, too.

I have also seen anonymous sources who leak information for self-serving reasons, to float a policy balloon or damage a rival.