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  • SIROTA: Well, if you have self-sacrificingly taken herself out of the race, and so the Republican conservative vote will be undivided.

    CNN Transcript Nov 2, 2009 2009

  • This Sunday, Jones self-sacrificingly resigned to avoid becoming a distraction for the Obama administration.

    Brendan Smith: AFL-CIO Convention: Solidarity with Van Jones? 2009

  • Sure, they (self-sacrificingly, I'm sure) are big on the no-divorce and sanctity of (some) life fronts (although oddly I've never seen anyone make a serious *Biblical* argument on the abortion issue--religious, yes, but only based on the claims of modern religious authorities, not on the actual bible).

    Oh, Lord, the entertainment value. CC 2008

  • And the shell of Amalek, and the fiftieth gate of impurity are fighting self-sacrificingly, and against this, the Holy One Blessed Be He demands self-sacrifice for holiness and in such merit we will be redeemed.

    A Little Taste of the Rhetoric | Jewschool 2006

  • He persisted humbly, lovingly, self-sacrificingly, henpeckedly, however, until one morning his sun rose brighter than it had ever done before and he saw a faint glimmer of light through the wool that was hanging in front of him.

    Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope

  • When Confederation became a fact McGee sacrificingly stood aside and allowed another man to become a Cabinet Minister-that sometimes becomes necessary in our country-to have a Cabinet composed of representatives from various sections.

    Thomas D'Arcy McGee 1925

  • Not that he minded making the offer anywhere; but she, self-sacrificingly, might refuse; and a crowded street was not the place where he could tackle a refusal of the throne to advantage.

    King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties Laurence Housman 1912

  • She could just remember those benign old gentlemen, as well as the many veterans of the Civil War who dined at her father's decorous mahogany and talked of the preservation of the Constitution and those other institutions to found which it is generally assumed the first settlers landed on the Atlantic seaboard and self-sacrificingly accepted real estate from the wily native in return for whisky and glass beads.

    By Advice of Counsel Arthur Cheney Train 1910

  • His wife had self-sacrificingly told that he might smoke in the house if he took care to sit by an open window.

    Anne of Avonlea 1909

  • To all those who had thus so self-sacrificingly and energetically promoted the organization of this fund he desired to accord in the name of the diocese their deep obligation.

    Meaning. 1908

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