self-advancement

Such interest, after all, gets in the way of self-advancement.

No one had ever suggested anything like this to them, only self-advancement.

But prayer for me is not about self-help or self-advancement.

They offer an atmosphere of participation, self-advancement, and program involvement.

In truth, this is likely to be a form of self-protection and self-advancement.

The militia service - and the opportunities for self-advancement - had been the best option.

Because the Mets have opened the week in third place, the opportunity for self-advancement is there.

He was far more concerned about getting the policies right than about self-advancement.

Her educational background therefore is impressive and displays a lot of initiative for self-advancement.

Competition means people grab any means they can for self-advancement.

You get the feeling that any character in the play, given the opportunity, would act just as the Macbeths do for self-advancement.

And her world was peopled by international finalists in the art of self-advancement.

There are similar stories of self-advancement throughout Goldman’s London workforce.

His obsession with his own self-advancement has in effect destroyed it.

Power and self-advancement is the thing, for them.

Is it lonely being an idealist in a culture obsessed with self-advancement?

Many feminists insisted that celibacy was a positive step in women's self-advancement.

They tend to exploit and trick others for self-advancement.

Later, ha!, they are tainted by self-advancement or shared school runs.

This kind of freedom, he maintained, was not inconsistent with self-organization for self-advancement.

Civic virtue soon only mattered insofar as it served self-advancement.

She did not wish to ruin her sister unless in self-defence, or rather, for the cause of self-advancement.

- he joins a small but conspicuous list of Republicans who believe in something besides self-advancement.

It's oriented around goals like self-development, self-advancement and personal happiness.

He was not engaged in a nudge-nudge wink-wink game of professional self-advancement.