1. She was held back by some sense of self-preservation.

2. The police have the same human urge for self-preservation as the rest of us.

3. It was his instinct for self-preservation that led him to abandon his former friends and transfer his allegiance to the new rulers.

4. But I also joined out of self-preservation.

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5. It was a matter of self-preservation.

6. The more immediate concern, namely, self-preservation, had made friends and benefactors of their former enemies.

7. What seems to motivate Congress is self-preservation - a desire to get re-elected.

8. Shaftesbury had rejected Hobbes's view of self-preservation as the basis of conduct.

9. Both super-powers shared the instinct for self-preservation and negotiated continuously in search of credible systems of nuclear deterrents.

10. More generally, the instinctive drive for self-preservation led to the emergence of a range of public and governmental institutions.

11. Politics and self-preservation must come first, never mind the majority of the people.

12. There is a feeling of self-preservation here; for what shuts out happiness for some does so for me and mine.

13. These days, it is an act of self-preservation.

14. In humannature, the right of self-preservation implies the right to property, and anyindividual property in man's products from the soil requires property in theland itself.

15. The second thought was fear, channelled into self-preservation: I jumped out of bed and grabbed my clothes from the floor.

16. Instead of worrying about his own self-preservation, he worries about hers. That's being in love.

17. Other tidbits include basic advice regarding self-preservation, such as never traversing at night or refraining from "passing judgment" when consuming alcohol.

18. But his adaptability did not apply to his tenets, merely to his instinct for self-preservation.

19. Otherwise a decreasing fraction of the flow would be turbulent, and, for example, self-preservation could not occur.

20. Politicians rarely change sides unless their instinct is purely one of self-preservation, human personalities remain predictably the same.

21. Even a very young animal has a strong instincts for self-preservation.

22. The theory would have to be tested, of course, but the body has an acute sense of self-preservation, you know.

23. In this climate, shrewd and sensitive individuals with an instinct for self-preservation looked around for a partner and pair-bonded.

24. Was his withdrawal from the return journey good luck or self-preservation?

25. This is a condition which should be avoided by all self-preservation enthusiasts.

26. Thoughts around Salomon Brothers turned away from the greater glory of the firm and focused on self-preservation.

27. But there needed to be some character there, some instinct for self-preservation, a degree of imagination too.

28. It may seem cruel, but the goal is nothing short of self-preservation.

29. Is this an example of a solid company man placing his conviction about a public need above his well- developed instinct for bureaucratic self-preservation?

30. Nature has indeed given you an irresistible self-love, and an unalienable right of self-preservation; but I create in you a contrary sentiment, an heroic hatred of yourselves.

31. Amnesia is a primitive, self-preservation mechanism, which comes into play when man need to protect himself or herself from some form of severe emotional or physical trauma.

32. "I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation, " he reflects.

33. This is a moment when the instinct of self-preservation emits howls, when the beast re-appears in men.

34. There is a certain instinct of orderlinessand of self-preservation which enables multitudes of free human beings to getalong after a fashion.

35. The forecast is almost certainly a mix of wishful thinking and bureaucratic self-preservation.

36. This positive feedback loop is exactly the kind of self-preservation strategy a system with its own agenda would develop.

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37. The outcomes are unwanted, but the often unconscious and underlying intent was love, self-preservation, and feeling good.

38. Deterrence does work on that basic level, at least against a regime with an instinct for self-preservation (and the Iranian leaders do have that).

39. This moderate personality has such advantages as pragmatism, practicality and harmony, but it also has some negative elements including reconciliation, conservatism, fogyism and self-preservation.

40. Here is nature once more at her old game of self-preservation.

41. When the horned lizard is approached by a hungry foe, it uses an equally unusual method of self-preservation.

42. The question has bugged me ever since; Is this an example of a solid company man placing his conviction about a public need above his well- developed instinct for bureaucratic self-preservation?