Noun : She had high hopes for advancement in the company. From Dictionary.com.
'Motive was self-advancement in the profession, sir. From Wordnik.com. [A Murder of Quality]
Its prime concern isn't production but self-advancement. From Wordnik.com. [What's Behind the Lemming Urge?] Reference
Uses it as a tool for self-gratification or self-advancement. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 23, 2001] Reference
Posturing cynical crapster groping for self-advancement more like. From Wordnik.com. [Huw, Lynne and allowances] Reference
Civic virtue soon only mattered insofar as it served self-advancement. From Wordnik.com. [Dark Mirror] Reference
A sort of vicious circle of self-advancement, hypocrisy and selective amnesia. From Wordnik.com. [There's dumb, there's dumber, and there's David Davies] Reference
… The people on your side are mostly incapable cowards seeking self-advancement. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Empress] Reference
While traveling on the road they would find many opportunities for self-advancement. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Road] Reference
Read Obama's book - he has been using that ploy for self-advancement his whole life. From Wordnik.com. [Mum's the word for Michelle on Rev. Wright] Reference
Alone in my room, congested and exhausted, I forgot my obsession with self-advancement. From Wordnik.com. [Anis Shivani: Does the Ivy League Turn You Into a Moron? Walter Kirn Critiques Princeton in "Lost in the Meritocracy"] Reference
Alone in my room, exhausted and apprehensive, I no longer cared about self-advancement. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Meritocracy] Reference
Read Obama's book - he has been using that ploy for self-advancement his whole life. susie. From Wordnik.com. [Mum's the word for Michelle on Rev. Wright] Reference
She urged the school's girls to embrace technology and use it as a means for self-advancement. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
People and societies thrive when they believe in some cause beyond self-advancement. '(p. 130). From Wordnik.com. ['Freedom and Slavery' - Wilberforce Lecture 2007] Reference
Only natural to be concerned about nest-feathering and self-advancement but, in people so young?. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
They were jobless, homeless, landless and had no access to education, health and self-advancement. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Read Obama's book - he has been using that ploy for self-advancement his whole life. bleeding tongue. From Wordnik.com. [Mum's the word for Michelle on Rev. Wright] Reference
I suspect (but am not proposing) that the motive would be alleged as self-advancement or self-promotion. From Wordnik.com. [A Trend?] Reference
He is who he seems to be: the bionic candidate, working the angles, combining self-advancement with idealism. From Wordnik.com. [Searching For Authenticity] Reference
Political leadership is thus a direct means of self-advancement, a temptation too strong for weak human nature. From Wordnik.com. [Authors of Greece] Reference
Kirn's essay concludes, Alone in my room, exhausted and apprehensive, I no longer cared about self-advancement. From Wordnik.com. [[A] man not without his reasons] Reference
Bradford: I suspect (but am not proposing) that the motive would be alleged as self-advancement or self-promotion. From Wordnik.com. [A Trend?] Reference
"We will only succeed to eliminate them through righteous governance, economic growth, self-advancement and self-reliance,". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The life-scribe is often painted as parasitic without good purpose, serving only self-interest, serving only self-advancement. From Wordnik.com. [Joe Woodward: Hagiography -- Writing the Lives of the Saints] Reference
Nezahualcoyotl was warmly received in Tenochtitldn and devoted the next eight years to study and intellectual self-advancement. From Wordnik.com. [Nezahualcoyotl: Texcoco's philosopher king (1403–1473)] Reference
Africans with the skills to succeed in the global market and offer opportunities to individuals and communities for self-advancement. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
We certainly need to guard against the impact on our organisation of the most narrow forms of individual careerism and self-advancement. From Wordnik.com. [STATE OF ORGANISATION] Reference
Political democracy brought with it the dividend of new opportunities for self-advancement for black South Africans, especially africans. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Today] Reference
I mean, you did it for the -- you did it for the fun of -- all the medical advances, really into the 1940s, were not for self-advancement. From Wordnik.com. [The Mold in Dr. Florey�s Coat: The Story of the Penicillin Miracle] Reference
Mr. Wilson determined never to lose an opportunity for self-culture or self-advancement. From Wordnik.com. [Pushing to the Front] Reference
A self-taught intellectual and philosopher, he did not curry favour or seek self-advancement. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News - Home] Reference
In the studio she was speedily recognized as an ambitious young woman zealous for self-advancement. From Wordnik.com. [We Can't Have Everything] Reference
His motives -- and he was honest, when he so avowed them -- were motives of state at least as much as of self-advancement. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
And the rest are required by the great duty of self-preservation and self-advancement, which is inherent in our institutions. From Wordnik.com. [Cheap Postage] Reference
I may as well give it all up, and accept the inevitable, and grope on as well as I can without hope of self-advancement or of victory. '. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms] Reference
Leonard Upjohn, airy master of the art of self-advancement; or Dr. South, the vicar of Blackstable, and his wife -- these are masterpieces. From Wordnik.com. [When Winter Comes to Main Street] Reference
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