Service to a higher cause than his own desire.

"It won't be the first time we've lost family members in the service of a higher cause."

But he assured his audience, from labor and management, that their struggle was for a higher national cause.

A quarter-century later, the appeals to a higher cause were gone.

Only a man who possessed supreme courage would sacrifice himself for a higher cause.

In many cases, people are more than willing to throw money into the high cause of memorializing themselves.

In both books, the chief rival for the parent's affection is not another human being but an always higher cause.

"They fought for what they thought was a higher cause."

You'd do anything, say anything, to serve your precious higher cause.

By the year 2020, depression is expected to be the highest ranking cause of disease in the developed world.